Matthew Cull
Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society

Address
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Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society
Usher Institute - University of Edinburgh
23 Buccleuch Place - City
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Background
I did my undergraduate degree at the University of St Andrews, before doing my masters degree at Queen’s University Canada. Following this, I did my PhD at the University of Sheffield, which I finished in 2020. After a couple of short-term posts at the University of Reading and the University of Leeds, I’m now working as a researcher at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society.
Undergraduate teaching
This year I will be teaching on:
- LAWS11397: Fundamentals in Bioethics
- BIME10049: Biomedicine, Ethics and Society: Contemporary Issues
- BIME10068: Bioethics, Law and Society: Foundations of Knowledge
- Biomedical Sciences Honours Research Project
Research summary
My research mainly focuses on the nature of the social world, and how it might be changed for the better. I draw on a number of traditions, primarily analytic and feminist philosophy.
I’m working on a variety of issues at the moment:
- Contemporary transgender politics in the UK, with an eye to the role that dispossession from healthcare plays in such conflicts.
- A book for Bloomsbury, What Gender Should Be, which argues for a distinctive transfeminist position on the semantics and metaphysics of gender.
- Political and applied philosophy of language.
- (Bio)ethical and metaphysical questions about pregnancy, the family and family abolition.
I also have research interests in:
- Epistemology,
- Philosophical methodology,
- Philosophy of race,
- Logic,
- Philosophy of science,
- History of philosophy,
- Philosophy of action.
For more details, along with a list of my previous publications, please see my website: https://matthewcull.wixsite.com/philosophy