Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy Research Cluster

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The Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy research cluster is one of the three clusters of research strength in the Stirling Philosophy Unit. It functions as a focus for research activity in the unit, including publications, conferences and workshops, research grants, and a wide range of interdisciplinary, impact and public engagement activities.

Themes explored in this cluster include the nature of practical reason and normativity; the universality of moral and other practical claims; human rights as a legal and a moral concept; the nature and purpose of rights and duties, including human rights and property rights; the relation between regulation, paternalism and autonomy; and aspects of the Aristotelian, Kantian and Humean traditions. It provides one route by which the unit contributes to three University-wide research themes: Cultures, Communities and Society; Global Security and Resilience; and Living Well.

Developing organically from its members’ work, the cluster is the source of recent and ongoing projects in the foundations of human rights, the legitimacy of legal and policy interventions, and the nature of practical reason and its relation to politics.

The cluster has strong research links with colleagues at the University of Ghana, and cluster members play an ongoing role in Stanford University’s Coding Caring: Human Values for an Intimate AI. The cluster hosts the interdisciplinary Stirling Political Philosophy Group involving colleagues from Criminology, Law and Politics.

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University of Stirling
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