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Dr Jonathan Webber

Overview

Jonathan Webber Position: Reader Email: WebberJ1@cf.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75660
Extension: 75660
Location: John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU.

Research Group

Philosophy

Research Interests

Moral Psychology; Existentialism; Virtue Ethics; Kantian Ethics; Applied Ethics.

Selected Publications

The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, 2008.

The Imaginary, by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translation, with philosophical introduction, notes, and index. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Existentialism [214 KB] Routledge Companion to Ethics, ed. John Skorupski. Routledge, 2009.

Character, Common-Sense, and Expertise [227 KB] Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10, no. 1 (January 2007).

Sex[275 KB] _Philosophy_ 84, no. 328: 233-250 (April 2009)

Publications

 

Books

The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, 2008.

The Imaginary, by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translation, with philosophical introduction, notes, and index. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Articles

Jonathan Webber (forthcoming). Authenticity. In Jack Reynolds & Steven Churchill (eds.), Sartre: Key Concepts.

Jonathan Webber & Robin Scaife (forthcoming). Intentional Side-Effects of Action. Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Jonathan Webber (2011). Climate Change and Public Moral Reasoning. In Thom Brooks (ed.), New Waves in Ethics.

Jonathan Webber (2011). Freedom. In Sebastian Luft Søren Overgaard (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology.

Jonathan Webber (2011). Review of Joseph S. Catalano, Reading Sartre. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (2).

Jonathan Webber (2010). Bad Faith and the Other. In Jonathan Webber (ed.), Reading Sartre: On Phenomenology and Existentialism. Routledge.

Sex [364kb]. _Philosophy_ 84, no. 328: 233-250 (April 2009)

Existentialism [214 KB] Routledge Companion to Ethics, ed. John Skorupski. Routledge, 2009.

Character, Global and Local [124 KB] Utilitas 19, no. 4 (December 2007).

Character, Common-Sense, and Expertise [227 KB] Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10, no. 1 (January 2007).

Character, Consistency, and Classification [125 KB] Mind 115, no. 459 (July 2006).

Virtue, Character and Situation [275 KB] Journal of Moral Philosophy 3, no. 2 (July 2006).

Sartre's Theory of Character. European Journal of Philosophy 14, no. 1 (April 2006).

Doing Without Representation: Coping with Dreyfus [132 KB] Philosophical Explorations V, no. 1 (2002).

Motivated Aversion: Bad Faith and Non-Thetic Awareness [156 KB] Sartre Studies International 8, no. 1 (2002).

Online Lectures

Sartrean Existentialism. Twelve lectures on Sartre delivered at the University of Bristol in 2007.

Research

Jonathan works in moral psychology, which means that he is concerned with understanding the psychological concepts employed in ethical discourse, with the extent to which these concepts are genuinely applicable to people, and with ways in which our moral thinking can go wrong when we make mistakes about human psychology.

His most recent publications have been concerned with the ideas of character and virtue, particularly with whether empirical psychology has shown these to embody a mistaken view of human behaviour, and with clarifying and assessing the theory of the origins and nature of character at the heart of twentieth-century French existentialist thought.

He is currently working on ways in which moral psychology can be applied directly to current debates in applied ethics.

Biography

Jonathan studied at Oxford as an undergraduate and UCL as a postgraduate. He held lectureships at Sheffield and Bristol before coming to Cardiff in 2008.

He is currently Treasurer of the British Society for Ethical Theory and Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Bristol.