Ethan Moore

PhD Philosophy

  • Philosophy
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

40 George Square

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9JX

Background

I'm a PhD student working in metaethics - in particular the 'Now What?' problem for moral error theorists. I'm interested in various questions concerning the moral error theory, but also normativity in general. I am also interested in how insights from sociology, psychology and behavioural economics can be deployed in ethical and metaethical debates.  

Undergraduate teaching

Introduction to History of Philosophy A (2024, 2025)

Introduction to History of Philosophy B (2024)

Morality and Value (2024)

Organiser

What If Morality is a Sham? A Conference on the Consequences of Moral Nihilism (2025) 

Papers delivered

"A New Framework for Understanding Cryptomarket Participants" XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (2023)

"Why We Should Be Glad that Morality is a Myth" Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, Lecture Series (2023/24)

"You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: Why Fictionalism Cannot Maintain Moral Commitment-Mechanisms" XXV World Congress of Philosophy (2024)

"How Art Evades Essentialist Definition" Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, Lecture Series (2024/25)

"Criminal Communes: Digital Communalism as a Mechanism for Challenging Legal Norms" The Pasts, Presents and Futures of Communalism, University of Nijmegen (2025)

"Moral Judgement, Stigmatisation and Anti-Social Behaviour" What If Morality is a Sham? A Conference on the Consequences of Moral Nihilism (2025) 

“What if There Are No Moral Facts?” (Forthcoming) in Philosophers on How to Live: Talking about Morality. Edited by Jack Symes & Ellie Palmer.