Research Strengths
The Philosophy program at The University of Melbourne has achieved international recognition for work across a number of different areas. The major research strengths cluster in three broad areas:
- Logic, metaphysics and philosophy of language
- Ethics, moral psychology and metaethics
- Applied ethics and political philosophy
Within these broad areas our staff are pursuing a number of different research projects. Some current areas of research include:
- Non-classical logics and their applications (Priest, Restall, Ripley, Weber)
- Theories of meaning and thought content (L Schroeter, Restall, Ripley, Sankey)
- Vagueness (Ripley, Restall, Weber, Priest)
- Objects: identity and individuation (Goswick, Ripley, Priest, Marshall)
- Testimony and trust (Jones, Coady)
- Rationality in ethics (F Schroeter, Jones, Cordner, Marshall)
- Moral emotions and agency (Jones, F Schroeter, Cordner, Levy, Marshall)
- Just war theory and political violence (Coady, Alexandra)
- Professional ethics (Alexandra, D Schroeder)
- Bioethics (Singer, D Schroeder, Coady, Minerva)
- Climate change and global justice (Moss, McGann, Singer)
More Information