formerly M-FIL/03 Moral Philosophy

This field encompasses expertise related to the nature of morality, including normative ethics (such as deontological ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics), metaethics (moral ontology, epistemology, and semantics), descriptive ethics, and moral psychology.
It also includes the practical applications of moral philosophy (applied ethics), particularly in relation to the political and social dimensions of human experience, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, value theory, and investigations emerging from the natural and social sciences.
The field addresses the moral implications of human action and includes practical reflections on problematic areas of contemporary society such as communication ethics, bioethics, economic ethics, animal ethics, ethics of new technologies and artificial intelligence, neuroethics, environmental ethics, and public ethics.
Research in this area is conducted from both theoretical-foundational and/or historical perspectives. The field also explores the disciplinary content and methodologies specific to the teaching of philosophy, in connection with the issues at the heart of its research.