Rich Healey is joining the Centre for Philosophy of Natural & Social Science (CPNSS) as a postdoctoral researcher on the project ‘Not in my Name’ lead by Jonathan Parry.

Healey will be working on questions concerning the moral foundations of normative powers and the normative constraints that apply to the powers of consent and promise. Rich earned his PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2016 under the supervision of Daniel Viehoff and Chris Bennett. Subsequently, he has held a mixture of research and teaching positions at institutions including McGill, McMaster, Glasgow, and UCL. His research interests span moral, political, and legal philosophy, with a current focus on the ethics of consent and promising, interpersonal relationships, and animal rights.

About the ‘Not in my Name’ project

The core goal of the Not in my Name project is to uncover and explain the moral significance of two ubiquitous, yet opaque phenomena. On the one hand, it is common for agents to justify their actions by claiming to act ‘on behalf of’ another. On the other hand, these claims often provoke indignation and rejection on the part of their subject(s).

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