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Professor Daniel Whiting BA (hons), MA, PhD

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I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton and the Director of the Mind Association.

From 2016-2019, I was Head of Department. In 2015, I spent the autumn semester as a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University. I am a founding member of the European Normativity Network. Before joining Southampton in 2007, I studied and then held a lectureship at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading. Long before that, I grew up on the north coast of Cornwall.

I now live by the beach in Pokesdown (in Boscombe (in Bournemouth)). I am married to Hayley, the Heritage Archive and Research Manager for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. We have two sons - Elliot and Stanley.

Qualifications

BA (Hons), Philosophy, University of Reading, 2001

MA, Philosophy, University of Reading, 2002

PhD, University of Reading, 2006

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Research interests

I have published on a wide range of subjects in philosophy, including epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and the history of philosophy. One theme which runs through much of this work is normativity - very roughly, the right and the good. Recent topics include: the nature of normative reasons; the distinction between subjective and objective reasons; the norms of belief, assertion, and practical reasoning; epistemic and motivational constraints on reasons; the distinction between first- and second-order reasons; normative testimony; epistemic value; and epistemic justification.

I am presently the Principal Investigator leading an international network on Higher-Order Evidence in Epistemology, Ethics, and Aesthetics, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The "core" members of the network are Elinor Mason (Edinburgh), Jon Robson (Nottingham), and Weiping Zheng (Xiamen), and many other philosophers will participate in its activities.

Between 2013 and 2015, I was the Principal Investigator on a research project, also supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Normativity: Epistemic and Practical. My Co-Investigators were Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way. Prior to that, we led the 'Aims and Norms' workshop series, funded by the British Academy.

I have supervised PhD students working on such topics as inferential role semantics, epistemic value, and deflationism about truth. I would be pleased to hear from students seeking supervision on topics which fall within my areas of research interest.

Affiliate research groups

Epistemology, History of Philosophy, Analytic Aesthetics and the History of Aesthetics, Philosophy of Language, Logic and Metaphysics, Ethics

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Books

Whiting, D. (Accepted/In press). The range of reasons in ethics and epistemology. Oxford University Press.
Mchugh, C., Way, J., & Whiting, D. (Eds.) (2018). Metaepistemology. Oxford University Press.
Whiting, D. (Ed.), Way, J. (Ed.), & Mchugh, C. (2018). Normativity: epistemic and practical. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/normativity-9780198758709?cc=gb&lang=en&
Whiting, D. (Ed.) (2009). The later Wittgenstein on language. (Philosophers in Depth). Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

Mchugh, C., Way, J., & Whiting, D. (2018). Introduction. In C. McHugh, J. Way, & D. Whiting (Eds.), Metaepistemology Oxford University Press.
Whiting, D., Mchugh, C., & Way, J. (2018). Introduction. In C. McHugh, J. Way, & D. Whiting (Eds.), Normativity: Epistemic and Practical Oxford University Press.
Whiting, D. (Accepted/In press). Whither higher-order evidence? In M. Skipper, & A. Steglich-Petersen (Eds.), Higher-Order Evidence: New Essays Oxford University Press.
Whiting, D. (2017). Don't take my word for it: On beliefs, affects, reasons, values, rationality, and aesthetic testimony. In E. Sullivan-Bissett, H. Bradley, & P. Noordhof (Eds.), Art and Belief (Mind Association Occasional Series). Oxford University Press.
Whiting, D. (2014). Reasons for belief, reasons for action, the aim of belief, and the aim of action. In C. Littlejohn, & J. Turri (Eds.), Epistemic Norms: New Essays on Action, Belief, and Assertion Oxford University Press.
Whiting, D. (2013). Nothing but the truth: on the norms and aims of belief. In T. Chan (Ed.), The Aim of Belief Oxford University Press.
Whiting, D. (Accepted/In press). Languages, language-games, and forms of life. In H-J. Glock, & J. Hyman (Eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Wittgenstein Wiley.
Whiting, D. (2010). Is there such a thing as a language? In W. Irwin, & R. B. Davis (Eds.), Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser (pp. 107-121). (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series). Wiley.
Whiting, D. (2010). Particular and general: Wittgenstein, linguistic rules and context. In D. Whiting (Ed.), The Later Wittgenstein on Language (pp. 114-132). (Philosophers in Depth). Palgrave.
Whiting, D. (2009). Introduction. In D. Whiting (Ed.), The Later Wittgenstein on Language (pp. 1-16). (Philosophers in Depth). Palgrave Macmillan.

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