Professor Michael Brady

  • Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy)

email: Michael.Brady@glasgow.ac.uk

Philosophy, Room 525, 69 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8LP

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136

Research interests

My main research is in the philosophy of emotion. One aspect of this research concerns the epistemic value of emotion: I am interested in how emotions can tell us about value, and the conditions in which emotions can play a positive epistemic role. My book on these themes, Emotional Insight, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

A second aspect is the nature and value of negative affective experience. I was Principal Investigator, along with my colleague David Bain, on a major three-year interdisciplinary project ‘The Value of Suffering’, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. My book on this topic, Suffering & Virtue, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. Two current research projects develop this interest further. In 2023, I was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project on ‘The Philosophy of Post-Traumatic Growth’, which will run until 2025. And in 2024, I was awarded a major three-year grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation for a project on ‘Confession and Flourishing’, with Professor Eranda Jayawickreme at Wake Forest University.

I have written an introductory book Emotion: The Basics, which was published by Routledge in 2018, and edited six books, most recently Summer.Autumn.Winter.Spring, which was published by Manchester University press, and resulted from a collaboration with the performance and theatre company Quarantine. In September 2025 I will take up the role of Dean of Research for the College of Arts & Humanities.

book cover: white wood background with a white round pin badge with text that reads Emotion: The Basics Emotional insightBlack and red book cover - the top a black-and-white movie still with men in formal/lab-wear discussing around a desk, the bottom a solid red colour with title 'Emotional Insight' book cover: white background with the headshot of a gender-ambiguous white person with short black hair wearing an ornate crown made of barbed wire. At the top, text reads Suffering and Virtue  
book cover: abstract golden yellow and turquoise painting with a central white band with the title Philosophy of pain philosophy of suffering Summer.Autumn.Winter.Spring  

Publications

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2025

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2025) Can existentialist thinking about the meaning of adversity lead to post-traumatic growth? Journal of Positive Psychology, (doi: 10.1080/17439760.2025.2505552) (Early Online Publication)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2025) Why we should be experientialists about suffering. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, (doi: 10.1017/S096318012500009X) (PMID:39910809) (Early Online Publication)

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2025) Fame and flourishing. In: Robb, Catherine M., Archer, Alfred and Dennis, Matthew (eds.) Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity. Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp. 11-31. ISBN 9781350401297 (doi: 10.5040/9781350401327.0008)

2024

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2024) Anxiety's allure. In: Rondel, David and Chopra, Samir (eds.) The Moral Psychology of Anxiety. Series: Moral Psychology of the Emotions. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9781666928402

2023

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2023) Suffering as experiential – a response to Jennifer Corns. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 107(1), pp. 24-30. (doi: 10.1111/phpr.12863)

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Jayawickreme, Eranda (2023) A philosophical approach to improving empirical research on posttraumatic growth. Philosophical Psychology, (doi: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2213251) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2022) Suffering and meaning in life. In: Landau, Iddo (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life. Oxford University Press: New York, NY, pp. 461-474. ISBN 9780190063504 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.33)

2021

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2021) Precis of suffering and virtue. Journal of Value Inquiry, 55, pp. 567-569. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-021-09862-6)

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2021) Response to commentators on Suffering and Virtue. Journal of Value Inquiry, 55, pp. 611-623. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-021-09863-5)

2020

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2020) Pride and humility. In: Alfano, Mark, Lynch, Michael P. and Tanesini, Alessandra (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility. Series: Routledge handbooks in philosophy. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 106-116. ISBN 9780815364115 (doi: 10.4324/9781351107532-12)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2020) Suffering and punishment. In: Amaya, Amalia and Del Mar, Maksymillian (eds.) Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning. Hart Publishing: Oxford ; London, pp. 139-156. ISBN 9781509925131

2019

Banham, Simon, Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136, Hunter, Sarah and O'Shea, Renny (Eds.) (2019) Summer.Autumn.Winter.Spring. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9781526143471

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007, Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Corns, Jennifer (Eds.) (2019) Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity. Routledge. ISBN 9780815361787

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2019) Why suffering is essential for wisdom. Journal of Value Inquiry, 53, pp. 467-469. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-019-09707-3)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2019) Suffering in sport: why people willingly embrace negative emotional experiences. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 46(2), pp. 115-128. (doi: 10.1080/00948705.2019.1615837)

2018

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Emotion: The Basics. Series: The basics. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York. ISBN 9781138081376

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Curiosity and pleasure. In: Inan, Ilhan, Watson, Lani, Whitcomb, Denis and Yigit, Safiye (eds.) The Moral Psychology of Curiosity. Series: Moral psychology of the emotions. Roman & Littlefield: London, pp. 183-196. ISBN 9781786606716

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) The role of emotion in intellectual virtue. In: Battaly, Heather (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology. Series: Routledge handbooks in philosophy. Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 47-58. ISBN 9781138890206 (doi: 10.4324/9781315712550-5)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Suffering and Virtue. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198812807 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198812807.001.0001)

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007, Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Corns, Jennifer (Eds.) (2018) Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780815361640

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007, Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Corns, Jennifer (2018) Introduction. In: Bain, David, Brady, Michael and Corns, Jennifer (eds.) Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9780815361640

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) The rationality of emotional and physical suffering. In: Bain, David, Brady, Michael and Corns, Jennifer (eds.) Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 81-94. ISBN 9780815361640

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Painfulness, desire, and the Euthyphro dilemma. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55(3), pp. 239-250.

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Moral and intellectual virtues. In: Snow, Nancy E. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Virtue. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: New York, NY, pp. 783-799. ISBN 9780199385195

2017

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2017) The appropriateness of pride. In: Carter, J. Adam and Gordon, Emma C. (eds.) The Moral Psychology of Pride. Series: Moral psychology of the emotions. Rowman & Littlefield: London, pp. 13-30. ISBN 9781783489084

2016

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Fricker, Miranda (Eds.) (2016) The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives. Series: Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198759645

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2016) Group Emotion and Group Understanding. In: Brady, Michael and Fricker, Miranda (eds.) The Epistemic Life of Groups. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 95-110. ISBN 9780198759645 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198759645.001.0001)

2015

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2015) Feeling bad and seeing bad. Dialectica, 69(3), pp. 403-416. (doi: 10.1111/1746-8361.12110)

2014

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007 and Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2014) Pain, pleasure, and unpleasure. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 5(1), pp. 1-14. (doi: 10.1007/s13164-014-0176-5)

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007 and Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (Eds.) (2014) Pain and Pleasure [Special Issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology]. Springer.

2013

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2013) Emotional Insight: The Epistemic Role of Emotional Experience. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199685523

2011

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2011) Emotions, perceptions and reasons. In: Bagnoli, C. (ed.) Morality and the Emotions. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 135-149. ISBN 9780199577507 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577507.003.0007)

2010

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (Ed.) (2010) New Waves in Metaethics. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire. ISBN 9780230251618

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2010) Disappointment. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 84(1), pp. 179-198. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8349.2010.00191.x)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2010) Virtue, emotion and attention. Metaphilosophy, 41(1-2), pp. 115-131. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2009.01620.x)

2009

Brady, M.S. (2009) The irrationality of recalcitrant emotions. Philosophical Studies, 145(3), pp. 413-430. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-008-9241-1)

Brady, M.S. (2009) Curiosity and the value of truth. In: Haddock, A., Millar, A. and Pritchard, D. (eds.) Epistemic Value. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 265-283. ISBN 9780199231188 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231188.003.0013)

2008

Brady, M.S. (2008) Value and fitting emotions. Journal of Value Inquiry, 42(4), pp. 465-475. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-008-9134-8)

2007

Brady, M.S. (2007) Recalcitrant emotions and visual illusions. American Philosophical Quarterly, 44(3), pp. 273-284.

2006

Brady, M.S. (2006) Appropriate attitudes and the value problem. American Philosophical Quarterly, 43(1), pp. 91-99.

Brady, M.S. and Pritchard, D. (2006) Epistemic Virtue and Virtue Epistemology [Special issue]. Philosophical Studies, 130, pp. 1-152.

2005

Brady, M.S. (2005) The value of the virtues. Philosophical Studies, 125(1), pp. 85-113. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-005-7788-7)

Brady, M.S. and Pritchard, D. (2005) Epistemological contextualism: problems and prospects. Philosophical Quarterly, 55(219), pp. 161-171. (doi: 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00393.x)

2004

Brady, M.S. (2004) Against agent-based virtue ethics. Philosophical Papers, 33(1), pp. 1-10.

2003

Brady, M.S. (2003) Valuing, desiring and normative priority. Philosophical Quarterly, 53(211), pp. 231-242. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9213.00308)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2003) Some worries about normative and metaethical sentimentalism. Metaphilosophy, 34(1-2), pp. 144-153. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9973.00265)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Pritchard, D. (Eds.) (2003) Moral and Epistemic Virtues. Series: Metaphilosophy series in philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781405108782

2002

Brady, M.S. (2002) Skepticism, normativity, and practical identity. Journal of Value Inquiry, 36(4), pp. 403-412. (doi: 10.1023/A:1021998028195)

2000

Brady, M.S. (2000) How to understand internalism. Philosophical Quarterly, 50(198), pp. 91-97. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9213.00172)

1998

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (1998) Reasons and rational motivational access. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 79(2), pp. 99-114. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0114.00052)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (1998) Can epistemic contextualism avoid the regress problem? Southern Journal of Philosophy, 36(3), pp. 317-328. (doi: 10.1111/j.2041-6962.1998.tb01758.x)

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Articles

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2025) Can existentialist thinking about the meaning of adversity lead to post-traumatic growth? Journal of Positive Psychology, (doi: 10.1080/17439760.2025.2505552) (Early Online Publication)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2025) Why we should be experientialists about suffering. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, (doi: 10.1017/S096318012500009X) (PMID:39910809) (Early Online Publication)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2023) Suffering as experiential – a response to Jennifer Corns. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 107(1), pp. 24-30. (doi: 10.1111/phpr.12863)

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Jayawickreme, Eranda (2023) A philosophical approach to improving empirical research on posttraumatic growth. Philosophical Psychology, (doi: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2213251) (Early Online Publication)

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2021) Precis of suffering and virtue. Journal of Value Inquiry, 55, pp. 567-569. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-021-09862-6)

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2021) Response to commentators on Suffering and Virtue. Journal of Value Inquiry, 55, pp. 611-623. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-021-09863-5)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2019) Why suffering is essential for wisdom. Journal of Value Inquiry, 53, pp. 467-469. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-019-09707-3)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2019) Suffering in sport: why people willingly embrace negative emotional experiences. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 46(2), pp. 115-128. (doi: 10.1080/00948705.2019.1615837)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Painfulness, desire, and the Euthyphro dilemma. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55(3), pp. 239-250.

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2015) Feeling bad and seeing bad. Dialectica, 69(3), pp. 403-416. (doi: 10.1111/1746-8361.12110)

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007 and Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2014) Pain, pleasure, and unpleasure. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 5(1), pp. 1-14. (doi: 10.1007/s13164-014-0176-5)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2010) Disappointment. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 84(1), pp. 179-198. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8349.2010.00191.x)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2010) Virtue, emotion and attention. Metaphilosophy, 41(1-2), pp. 115-131. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2009.01620.x)

Brady, M.S. (2009) The irrationality of recalcitrant emotions. Philosophical Studies, 145(3), pp. 413-430. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-008-9241-1)

Brady, M.S. (2008) Value and fitting emotions. Journal of Value Inquiry, 42(4), pp. 465-475. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-008-9134-8)

Brady, M.S. (2007) Recalcitrant emotions and visual illusions. American Philosophical Quarterly, 44(3), pp. 273-284.

Brady, M.S. (2006) Appropriate attitudes and the value problem. American Philosophical Quarterly, 43(1), pp. 91-99.

Brady, M.S. and Pritchard, D. (2006) Epistemic Virtue and Virtue Epistemology [Special issue]. Philosophical Studies, 130, pp. 1-152.

Brady, M.S. (2005) The value of the virtues. Philosophical Studies, 125(1), pp. 85-113. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-005-7788-7)

Brady, M.S. and Pritchard, D. (2005) Epistemological contextualism: problems and prospects. Philosophical Quarterly, 55(219), pp. 161-171. (doi: 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00393.x)

Brady, M.S. (2004) Against agent-based virtue ethics. Philosophical Papers, 33(1), pp. 1-10.

Brady, M.S. (2003) Valuing, desiring and normative priority. Philosophical Quarterly, 53(211), pp. 231-242. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9213.00308)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2003) Some worries about normative and metaethical sentimentalism. Metaphilosophy, 34(1-2), pp. 144-153. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9973.00265)

Brady, M.S. (2002) Skepticism, normativity, and practical identity. Journal of Value Inquiry, 36(4), pp. 403-412. (doi: 10.1023/A:1021998028195)

Brady, M.S. (2000) How to understand internalism. Philosophical Quarterly, 50(198), pp. 91-97. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9213.00172)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (1998) Reasons and rational motivational access. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 79(2), pp. 99-114. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0114.00052)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (1998) Can epistemic contextualism avoid the regress problem? Southern Journal of Philosophy, 36(3), pp. 317-328. (doi: 10.1111/j.2041-6962.1998.tb01758.x)

Books

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Emotion: The Basics. Series: The basics. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York. ISBN 9781138081376

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Suffering and Virtue. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198812807 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198812807.001.0001)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2013) Emotional Insight: The Epistemic Role of Emotional Experience. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199685523

Book Sections

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2025) Fame and flourishing. In: Robb, Catherine M., Archer, Alfred and Dennis, Matthew (eds.) Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity. Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp. 11-31. ISBN 9781350401297 (doi: 10.5040/9781350401327.0008)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2024) Anxiety's allure. In: Rondel, David and Chopra, Samir (eds.) The Moral Psychology of Anxiety. Series: Moral Psychology of the Emotions. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9781666928402

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2022) Suffering and meaning in life. In: Landau, Iddo (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life. Oxford University Press: New York, NY, pp. 461-474. ISBN 9780190063504 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190063504.013.33)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2020) Pride and humility. In: Alfano, Mark, Lynch, Michael P. and Tanesini, Alessandra (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility. Series: Routledge handbooks in philosophy. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 106-116. ISBN 9780815364115 (doi: 10.4324/9781351107532-12)

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2020) Suffering and punishment. In: Amaya, Amalia and Del Mar, Maksymillian (eds.) Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning. Hart Publishing: Oxford ; London, pp. 139-156. ISBN 9781509925131

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Curiosity and pleasure. In: Inan, Ilhan, Watson, Lani, Whitcomb, Denis and Yigit, Safiye (eds.) The Moral Psychology of Curiosity. Series: Moral psychology of the emotions. Roman & Littlefield: London, pp. 183-196. ISBN 9781786606716

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) The role of emotion in intellectual virtue. In: Battaly, Heather (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology. Series: Routledge handbooks in philosophy. Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 47-58. ISBN 9781138890206 (doi: 10.4324/9781315712550-5)

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007, Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Corns, Jennifer (2018) Introduction. In: Bain, David, Brady, Michael and Corns, Jennifer (eds.) Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9780815361640

Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) The rationality of emotional and physical suffering. In: Bain, David, Brady, Michael and Corns, Jennifer (eds.) Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 81-94. ISBN 9780815361640

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2018) Moral and intellectual virtues. In: Snow, Nancy E. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Virtue. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: New York, NY, pp. 783-799. ISBN 9780199385195

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2017) The appropriateness of pride. In: Carter, J. Adam and Gordon, Emma C. (eds.) The Moral Psychology of Pride. Series: Moral psychology of the emotions. Rowman & Littlefield: London, pp. 13-30. ISBN 9781783489084

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2016) Group Emotion and Group Understanding. In: Brady, Michael and Fricker, Miranda (eds.) The Epistemic Life of Groups. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 95-110. ISBN 9780198759645 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198759645.001.0001)

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (2011) Emotions, perceptions and reasons. In: Bagnoli, C. (ed.) Morality and the Emotions. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 135-149. ISBN 9780199577507 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577507.003.0007)

Brady, M.S. (2009) Curiosity and the value of truth. In: Haddock, A., Millar, A. and Pritchard, D. (eds.) Epistemic Value. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 265-283. ISBN 9780199231188 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231188.003.0013)

Edited Books

Banham, Simon, Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136, Hunter, Sarah and O'Shea, Renny (Eds.) (2019) Summer.Autumn.Winter.Spring. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9781526143471

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007, Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Corns, Jennifer (Eds.) (2019) Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity. Routledge. ISBN 9780815361787

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007, Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Corns, Jennifer (Eds.) (2018) Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780815361640

Brady, Michael S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Fricker, Miranda (Eds.) (2016) The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives. Series: Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198759645

Bain, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9271-0007 and Brady, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (Eds.) (2014) Pain and Pleasure [Special Issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology]. Springer.

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 (Ed.) (2010) New Waves in Metaethics. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire. ISBN 9780230251618

Brady, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-7136 and Pritchard, D. (Eds.) (2003) Moral and Epistemic Virtues. Series: Metaphilosophy series in philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781405108782

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Grants

2024-27

$259,734. Templeton World Charity Foundation. ‘Confession & Flourishing: An investigation into the impact on flourishing of Catholic confessional practices.’

2023-25

£104,000. Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The Philosophy of Post-Traumatic Growth.

2013-16

£362,000. John Templeton Foundation. The Value of Suffering Project (Principal Investigator). The VOS project is a large, international, and interdisciplinary research project investigating the nature, role, and value of pain, suffering, and affective experience more generally. Its core team comprises philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and clinicians, based in Scotland, France, Norway, and the United States. It includes a postdoctoral fellow and an international PhD student. Running from 2013 - 2016, the project will involve numerous workshops and conferences and will result in articles, a monograph, edited collections, and various outreach activities. 

2012-13

£107,000. John Templeton Foundation. The Pain Project (Principal Investigator).

Supervision

My current PhD students are:

I have been supervisor (first or second) for the following students:

  • Olan Harrington
  • Yunjie Zhang
  • Eilidh Harrison
  • Catherine Robb
  • Robert Cowan
  • Ioanna-Maria Patsalidou
  • Carole Baillie
  • James Humphries
  • Ross Hetherington

I have also managed Dr Jennifer Corns, who is the postdoctoral researcher on two projects: The Pain Project, and The Value of Suffering.

Teaching

I usually teach the following courses:

  • Philosophy MSc
  • Philosophy Conversion (MLitt)
  • Senior Honours: The Emotions (SH27)
  • Junior Honours: Moral Philosophy (JH9)
  • Junior Honours : Epistemology (JH3, tutorials)
  • Level 2: Morality, Politics and Religion (2M, Metaethics component)
  • Level 1: Right and Wrong (1M, Applied Ethics component)

Additional information

I joined the Department at Glasgow in 2005, having previously taught at the University of Stirling. I received my PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara, after having studied for a Masters in Philosophy at King's College, University of London, and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.

From 2019-2023 I was Head of School of Humanities, and am currently Deputy Head of the College of Arts & Humanities at Glasgow.

I was Director of the British Philosophical Association from 2011 until 2014, and Secretary of the Scots Philosophical Association from 2009 until 2012. I am on the Board of The Philosophical Quarterly, and subject editor responsible for Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion for Oxford Bibliographies Online. 

Outside of academic philosophy, I am Philosopher-in-Residence at the Manchester-based theatre and performance company Quarantine, and have worked with them on a number of productions. 


Michael Brady