Dr Alex Gregory BA, MA (Nottingham), PhD (Reading)

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Dr Alex Gregory is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton.

Alex completed his PhD at the University of Reading in 2011, and lectured there until Summer 2013, when he took up his present post at Southampton.

For further information, please see his personal webpage.

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In room 1041 at Avenue (building 65).

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Research interests

Alex works primarily in ethics. His present research divides broadly into two categories: First, he is working on the nature of desires, and the relationship they have with our behaviour and with the evaluation of our behaviour. This connects with broader interests on topics such as moral motivation, reasons for action, and rationality. Second, he is working on disability: both how we should understand the nature of disability (what do all disabilities have in common?) and also evaluative questions, especially about the relationship between disability and wellbeing. For more information click here.

He would be happy to supervise PhD students in any of these areas.

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Articles

Gregory, A. (2017). Are all normative judgements desires? Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy.
Gregory, A. (2017). Why do desires rationalize actions? Ergo.
Gregory, A. (2017). Why verbal reports of desire may mislead. Thought. DOI: 10.1002/tht3.257
Gregory, A. (2015). Reasons as good bases. Philosophical Studies, 1-20. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-015-0609-8
Gregory, A. (2015). Review: "Confusion of Tongues: A Theory of Normative Language" by Stephen Finlay, Oxford University Press, 2014. viii + 278 pp. £42.00. Analysis, 75(4), 687-689. DOI: 10.1093/analys/anv054
Gregory, A. (2014). A very good reason to reject the buck-passing account. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 92(2), 287-303. DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2013.813055
Gregory, A. (2013). Review: What is This Thing Called Happiness? by Fred Feldman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xv + 286. H/b £36.00, P/b £16.99. Mind, 122(487), 820-823. DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzt092
Gregory, A. (2013). The guise of reasons. American Philosophical Quarterly, 50(1), 63-72.
Gregory, A. (2012). Changing direction on direction of fit. Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 15(5), 603-614. DOI: 10.1007/s10677-012-9355-6
Gregory, A. (2012). Review: Andrew Reisner and Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (eds.), Reasons for Belief, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 273pp., $90.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781107006874. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 1.
Gregory, A. (2009). Slaves of the passions? On Schroeder's new Humeanism. Ratio, 22(2), 250-257. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2009.00429.x

Book Chapters

Gregory, A. (2017). Might desires be beliefs about normative reasons for action? In F. Lauria, & J. A. Deonna (Eds.), The Nature of Desire Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Gregory, A. (2015). Hedonism. In G. Fletcher (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being (pp. 113-123). London, GB: Routledge.

PHIL2028 Appearance and Reality
PHIL3041 Happiness and Wellbeing

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