Professor Guy Kahane
Senior Research Fellow
Guy Kahane is a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. He is also a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
Kahane has been a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute since 2005. He has also previously been its Deputy Director and Director of Studies, and helped create and run its successful MSt in Practical Ethics in Practical Ethics, serving as its Course Director until 2024. Kahane was an an Associate Editor of the Journal of Practical Ethics and of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and a recipient of a Wellcome Trust University Award (2009-2014),
Kahane has published well over 100 articles, many of which have appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals in philosophy and science, such as Nous, Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Nature, PNAS, Psychological Review and Cognition. His research interests include practical ethics, metaethics, moral psychology, animal ethics, well-being and meaning, and philosophy of religion/atheism. Kahane has also been actively engaged in interdisciplinary empirical research into the neural and psychological processes that underlie moral decision-making.
