Dr Joseph Moore

Joseph Moore is a Senior Research Fellow in the University of Oxford's Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He specializes in ethical theory, political theory, and the history of philosophy, especially ancient Greek philosophy. His work primarily concerns the good, flourishing life and the social and political conditions that enable people to live such lives. He is also interested in metanormative theory, educational theory and policy, and the moral psychology of character, moral motivation, and reactive attitudes.

Joseph received his BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley and his PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University. He has lectured at Princeton, Montclair State University, The College of New Jersey, and, through Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative, the Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix. He has presented research to international and interdisciplinary audiences in Australia, Colombia, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has also engaged in public outreach and facilitated philosophy for secondary school students following SAPERE's Philosophy for Children (P4C) method. At Princeton, he organized a Conference on Comparative Ancient Philosophy, the Princeton Workshop in Normative Philosophy, and several graduate workshops.

For more information, visit https://www.josephmoore.net.

Recent Publications: “Human Flourishing and Education” in Anders Schinkel (ed.), Wonder, Education, and Human Flourishing (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2020), pp. 60-80. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41804.)