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Dr. Farbod Akhlaghi

Assistant Professor (Philosophy)
ARTS BUILDING
      
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Dr. Farbod Akhlaghi

Assistant Professor (Philosophy)
ARTS BUILDING

 FARBOD.AKHLAGHI@tcd.ie

 3531896 8435


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 also hold a PhD by Incorporation from the University of Cambridge. 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
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Elected Member of the Committee of the Analysis Trust 19th November 2024
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Elected Member of the Committee of The Analysis Trust Nov. 2024
Lifetime Member of the Aristotelian Society 2016
Member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy 2016
Farbod Akhlaghi, Divinely Prescribed Evil and Moral Knowledge in Islam and Beyond, Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2025, Journal Article, SUBMITTED
Farbod Akhlaghi, Pragmatist Quietism: A Meta-Ethical System by Andrew Sepielli, Review of Pragmatist Quietism: A Meta-Ethical System, by Andrew Sepielli , The Philosophical Quarterly, 2025, p1-4 , Review, PUBLISHED  URL
Meta-Ethical Quietism? Wittgenstein, Relaxed Realism, and Countercultures in Meta-Ethics in, editor(s)Beale, J. & Cosker-Rowland, R. , Wittgenstein and Contemporary Moral Philosophy, Routledge, 2024, [Farbod Akhlaghi], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS  URL
Farbod Akhlaghi, How are Ethical Theories Explanatory?, Synthese, 204, (136), 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Farbod Akhlaghi, Transformative Experience and the Right to Revelatory Autonomy, Analysis, 2023, p3 - 12, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Farbod Akhlaghi, The Problems of Creeping Minimalism, Philosophy, 98, (3), 2023, p327 - 343, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Farbod Akhlaghi, Non-Realist Cognitivism, Truthmaking, and Ontological Cheating, Ethics, 132, (2), 2022, p291 - 321, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Farbod Akhlaghi, Does the Unity of Grounding Matter?, Mind, 131, (523), 2022, p828 - 837, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Farbod Akhlaghi, On the Possibility of Wholesale Moral Error, Ratio, 34, (3), 2021, p236 - 247, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Farbod Akhlaghi, On Moral Obligations and Our Chances of Fulfilling Them, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 23, 2020, p625 - 638, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Farbod Akhlaghi, Review of On What Matters: Volume Three, by Derek Parfit , Journal of Moral Philosophy, 20, (1-2), 2023, p166-170 , Review, PUBLISHED

  


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Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship, Ethox Centre, University of Oxford 2024
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by Incorporation, Christ's College, University of Cambridge 2024
Faculty of Philosophy Nominee for the inaugural Berggruen Prize for Best DPhil Thesis in Philosophy, Politics, or Law, University of Oxford 2021-2022
Graduate Development Scholarship, St Anne's College, Oxford 2020-2021
Aristotelian Society Bursary 2020-2021
Royal Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Studentship (Unable to accept due to other funding) 2020-2021
Full Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Studentship, University of Oxford 2017-2020
Anniversary PhD Scholarship, University of Reading (Declined) 2017
University Prize Scholarship, University of Sheffield (Declined) 2017
Darwin Philosophy Studentship, Darwin College, Cambridge 2016-2017
Deans' List for Academic Excellence, University of St Andrews 2015-2016
Faculty of Arts and Humanities TPG Research-Based Learning Prize, University of Stirling 2015-2016
Philosophical Quarterly Bursary, University of St Andrews 2015-2016
Philosophy Department Prize, University of Reading 2014-2015
Chancellor's Award, University of Reading 2014
Laurie Brain Book Prize, University of Reading 2013-2014
Reading Experience and Development Award 2013-2014
My primary research spans moral philosophy, (meta-)metaphysics, and their intersections. My current research focusses upon the metaphysics of morality and normativity, with a focus on how thinking about what metaphysics is and how it should be done can inform contemporary moral metaphysics; and the ethics of transformative experience and, more generally, hard or difficult choices we face in our lives. I am increasingly thinking about the nature and norms of inquiry, advice-giving, attention, narrative, perspectives, and their relationship to my other interests; about the philosophy of religion (especially problems of evil); and about the philosophy and ethics of culture. I have a broad range of other interests that include the history of philosophy (esp. 18th-20th C. British moral philosophy and Classical Islamic philosophy), the philosophy and ethics of psychotherapy, journalism, travel, and more generally in epistemology, political philosophy, and meta-philosophy.