Speakers conference Moral Emotions
Peter Goldie
Peter Goldie is The Samuel Hall Chair and Head of Philosophy at The University of Manchester. Before moving to Manchester, he was Reader in Philosophy at King’s College London, and prior to that a Lecturer at Magdalen College Oxford.
His main philosophical interests are in the philosophy of mind, ethics and aesthetics, and particularly in questions concerning value and how the mind engages with value. He is the author of two monographs, The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000, and On Personality, London, Routledge, 2004. He is editor of Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002, and is co-editing Philosophy and Conceptual Art, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, in press. He is also co-writing for Routledge a book on conceptual art, and is planning a book on narrative for OUP.
Professor Goldie is involved in two AHRC projects in aesthetics, and in HUMAINE, a major EU Network of Excellence Research Project into human-machine emotional interactions.
