Dr. Farbod Akhlaghi

I am an Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy at Trinity. Before this, I was Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Christ's College, University of Cambridge (2021-2024), and a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity (2023-2024). In May 2024, I was also Caroline Miles Visiting Scholar at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. I read for my DPhil (PhD) in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, at Oriel College (2017-2020) and St Anne's College (2020-2021), supervised by Prof Roger Crisp and Prof Timothy Williamson. I received my MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge (2016-2017), an MLitt in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews and Stirling Philosophy Graduate Programme (2015-2016), and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Reading (2012-2015). I am a 'third-culture kid', born in the UK to British parents of Persian/Bakhtiari ancestry, and raised across the UK, South Africa, and throughout the Middle East.

  ETHICS   Meta-ethics   Meta-metaphysics   METAPHYSICS   Moral Philosophy   Moral Realism   Normative Ethics   Transformative Experience

My primary research spans moral philosophy, (meta-)metaphysics, and their intersections. My current research mostly falls into three main projects: (a) bringing work on the nature of metaphysics and ontology to bear on debates over the metaphysics of morality and of normativity; (b) the ethics of transformative experience and what I call revelatory autonomy, and their relation to friendship, family, love, and interpersonal value; (c) analytic philosophy and ethics of culture. I have a broad range of other interests that include the history of philosophy (esp. British moral philosophy and Classical Islamic philosophy), the philosophy and ethics of psychotherapy, epistemology, political philosophy, and meta-philosophy more generally.