Profile
R Malcolm Murray
Name:
R Malcolm Murray
Email:
mmurray@upei.ca
Position:
Professor
Department:
Philosophy
Phone:
902-566-0575
Building:
SDU Main Building 510
Island Scholar:
Island Scholar Biography
Professor
BA, MA, PhD (Waterloo)
I study ethical theory. The focus is on the definitions, concepts, and justifications for moral talk. Specifically, I study contractarian arguments that pretend to ground moral motivation on a picture of enlightened self-interest. A large chunk of this justification veers into game theory.
Research Interests
- Ethical theory
- Contractarian ethics
- Moral epistemology
- Evolutionary game theory
