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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. 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 University, 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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My central research project is the development of an ethical theory based on an ideal of mutual care. This approach aims to integrate standards of justification in the ethics of economics, political philosophy, and moral philosophy. I am collaborating on two applications of this approach: to a new workforce model for Scottish pharmacy, the 'collaborative care' model, and to provide further justification for Community Wealth Building. And at Edinburgh, we are developing a research cluster focussing on related themes of alienation, recognition, and solidarity. 

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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