Edward Harcourt is a British philosopher and Professor of philosophy at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

. He has been a Fellow of

Keble College, Oxford Keble College () is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University Museum a ...

(since 2005), Mind Association Research Fellow, visiting research fellow at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, and Wittgenstein Professor at the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (; ) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. It is the largest education facility in the Austrian States of Austria, ...

. Harcourt is the academic director of the

Royal Institute of Philosophy The Royal Institute of Philosophy, founded in 1925, is a charitable organisation that holds and funds lectures and events on philosophical topics. It publishes two journals and offers grant programmes as part of its mission to share philosophica ...

. He is known for his works on

moral philosophy Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied et ...

and thick concepts.

Books

*''Attachment and Character: Attachment Theory, Ethics and the Developmental Psychology of Vice and Virtue'' (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. * ''Morality, Reflection, and Ideology'' (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Edward Harcourt at Oxford
21st-century British philosophers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Analytic philosophers Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of Keble College, Oxford British ethicists Wittgensteinian philosophers Alumni of the University of Oxford {{UK-academic-bio-stub