Dr Luke Russell

Luke Russell completed a BA (Hons) and a PhD in philosophy at the University of Sydney. His PhD, awarded in 2002, was on normativity in epistemology and ethics. He briefly taught at Macquarie University, before being appointed Lecturer at the University of Sydney, where he runs the HSC philosophy course Mind and Morality, and teaches Moral Psychology and Critical Thinking.

Luke's main areas of research are moral philosophy (including normativity, naturalism, virtue theory, moral psychology, evil, and metaethics), epistemology, philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind.

• "Is Evil Action Qualitatively Distinct from Ordinary Wrongdoing?", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 659-77 (Dec 2007).
• "What Even Consequentialists Should Say About the Virtues", Utilitas, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 466-86 (Dec 2007).
• "Evil-Revivalism versus Evil-Skepticism", Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol 40, pp. 89-105 (2006).
• "See the World: McDowell and the Normative Trilemma", Dialogue, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 69-88 (Winter 2006).

• "Two Kinds of Normativity: Korsgaard v. Hume", in Pigden (ed.), Hume, Motivation and Virtue, Palgrave Macmillan (2008).

• PHIL1016 Mind and Morality (HSC Summer School)
• PHIL2623 Moral Psychology (March Semester)
• PHIL2642 Critical Thinking (July Semester)