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The world is very young,
​and has but just begun
to cast off injustice. 

Harriet Taylor Mill 

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​I am a Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at The University of Edinburgh. Next spring, I'll also be a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University.

I previously held academic positions at Stanford University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and New York University. I received my PhD in Philosophy at Princeton, supervised by Gideon Rosen, and a BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, from Balliol College, Oxford. I grew up in Glasgow (pictured). Nowadays, I live in rural East Lothian, with my partner and our two young children. 
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I am working towards a unifying ethical theory based on the principle that we ought to care about one another. This approach aims to integrate standards of justification in the ethics of economics, political philosophy, and moral philosophy. 

You are welcome to send questions or comments on anything about my areas of research, teaching, PPE, or public philosophy - especially if you are a student interested in related issues. My email address is bmaguire at ed dot ac dot uk.

A recent C.V. is available here.











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