King, Matthew

Matt King joins the Murphy Institute as a faculty fellow for the academic year 2020-2021. He is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama–Birmingham, where he has taught since 2014. His academic journey began with a PhD from the University of Maryland in 2008, leading to appointments at Carleton College, Virginia Tech, St. Bonaventure University, and UCLA School of Law. His work focuses on what it takes to be responsible for the things we do and our practices of holding each other responsible, and has appeared in various journals such as Ethics, European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility. He’s also co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions with Oxford University Press. While at the Murphy Institute, he’ll be working on a project drawing on parallels between our practices of praising and blaming in both moral and non-moral contexts to ground a new general theory of responsibility.