What do we do?
Our view is that the best moral philosophy and ethics must be consistent with a psychologically realistic picture of human judgment and decision-making. On the other hand, for scientific work to have real ethical relevance, it has to be informed by in-depth philosophical understanding of the problems we are trying to solve.
We therefore aim to advance studies in philosophical moral psychology through combining rigorous scientific research practices with high-quality philosophical ethics.
Specifically, we use interdisciplinary methods from experimental philosophy (especially subfield like experimental bioethics - aka bioXphi) and moral psychology (the scientific study of the processes that underlie and explain moral judgment, reasoning, agency and behaviour) to advance our understanding of morality.
Lab Director
Dr Joanna Demaree-Cotton
Our website
For more information on our current lab members, research, news and publications can be found on the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab website.
Contact us
Email: moralpsychlab[at]uehiro.ox.ac.uk
