Dr Giles Pearson
B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Department of Philosophy
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Research interests
Giles works on ancient philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), metaethics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. His published work thus far has primarily focused on Aristotle's moral philosophy and philosophical psychology. He is also interested in aesthetics and certain topics in metaphysics. He has published two books: a monograph, Aristotle on Desire, with Cambridge University Press (2012), and an edited book (co-edited with Michael Pakaluk), Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle, with Oxford University Press (2011). He is currently at work on a third, on Aristotle on the emotions.
Giles teaches undergraduate courses on Plato, Aristotle, metaethics and aesthetics. At the graduate level, he regularly teaches an MA course on value theory, and supervises PhD dissertations on metaethics. He is also available to supervise dissertations on ancient philosophy.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Aristotle on Desire
Principal Investigator
Description
Resulted in a book: Pearson, G., *Aristotle on Desire*, Cambridge University Press, 2012.Managing organisational unit
School of ArtsDates
18/02/2010 to 18/07/2010
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
24/07/2020Educating Desire in Aristotle
Desire and Human Flourishing
How to argue about Aristotle about practical reason
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
'Putting the ‘Stroppies’ to work'
Plato’s Philebus
'Aristotle on psychopathology'
Evil in Aristotle
'What are Sources of Motivation?'
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society