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Dr. Rachel Handley

Teaching Fellow (Philosophy)

 handleyr@tcd.ie

 


Biography

I am a Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. I primarily teach metaethics and ethics from first year undergraduate level to postgraduate level. Previously I was a Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Code University, Berlin (2020), an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Liverpool (2020 - 2021), and a University Teacher at The University of Liverpool (2015 - 2020). I'm also a poet and an author. My debut collection of philosophical short stories, Possible Worlds and Other Stories, was published in 2022.

Research Tags

  ethics   Evolutionary Theory and Ethics   Metaethical Moral Neutrality   Metaethics   Moral Relativism   Quasi-Realism
Rachel Handley, Stevenson on Emotivism, Philosophers In Depth, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, Book, APPROVED
Rachel Handley, Squaring the Vienna Circle Four female philosophers who swam against the tide, Review of Metaphysical Animals, by Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman , The Times Literary Supplement, 2023, Review, PUBLISHED  URL
  

Rachel Handley, 'Possible Worlds and Other Stories', Durham, England, Ellipsis Imprints, 2022, -, Fiction and creative prose, PUBLISHED
Rachel Handley, 'Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing', Poetry Ireland, 2022, -, Notes: [Vital Signs is a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness and healing. Representing the best of contemporary and classic poetry, Vital Signs is a book for our times, a book for every reader, and a testament to the value of the imagination in the face of adversity. Edited by the award-winning poet Martin Dyar, the inspiring selection includes poems by Leland Bardwell, Eavan Boland, Christy Brown, Raymond Carver, Imtiaz Dharker, Rita Dove, Vona Groarke, Seamus Heaney, Miroslav Holub , Nithy Kasa, Patrick Kavanagh, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Bernard O"Donoghue, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Diane Seuss, Colm Tóibín, and many more. Three centuries of poetry from the best of Irish, UK and American poets is represented in this Poetry Ireland publication, from Robert Burns to poems selected from books published in the last three years. Ranging across centuries, countries, and continents, the poems in this anthology will inspire, comfort, and provide succour through the difficulties of illness and the processes of healing. Judiciously selected and attractively presented, poems by such greats as Seamus Heaney, Seán Ó Ríordáin and Eavan Boland, along with diverse selections by the best of classic and contemporary writers, offer probing accounts of experiences of illness, recovery, and the end of life, as well as the subjects of public health, eating disorders and the coronavirus pandemic; they will also offer a fresh gloss on the meaning of healing. ], Poetry, PUBLISHED
Rachel Handley, Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman, Why Metaethics Matters, Psyche Ideas, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Metaethics, moral psychology, moral epistemology, philosophy of disability, history of analytic philosophy, business ethics. For more information about my research please see my website.