• Senior Lecturer (Philosophy)

email: Michael.Brady@glasgow.ac.uk

My current research is focused on the epistemic value of emotion. In particular, I am interested in how we should understand the common-sense idea that emotions can tell us about value, and the conditions in which emotions can play a positive epistemic role.

Other interests include the nature of emotional valence, the relation between curiosity and epistemic value, the nature of collective emotion, and the concepts of hope and disappointment.

I am currently Principal Investigator (with David Bain) of an interdisciplinary research project, The Nature of Pain: Hedonic Tone, Motivation, and Non-Human Animals, investigating (i) relations between pain, perception, and emotion, and (ii) pain in non-human animals. Our team comprises philosophers, neuroscientists, veterinary scientists, and a postdoctoral fellow, spread amongst Glasgow, Paris, New York, and Oslo. This Templeton-funded project involves three workshops, a major international conference, and a collection edited by the PIs.

I am currently Principal Investigator (with David Bain) of an interdisciplinary research project, The Nature of Pain: Hedonic Tone, Motivation, and Non-Human Animals, investigating (i) relations between pain, perception, and emotion, and (ii) pain in non-human animals. Our team comprises philosophers, neuroscientists, veterinary scientists, and a postdoctoral fellow, spread amongst Glasgow, Paris, New York, and Oslo. This Templeton-funded project involves three workshops, a major international conference, and a collection edited by the PIs.

I am currently first supervisor for the following doctoral students:

• Robert Cowan. Ethical Intuitionism.
• Ioanna-Maria Patsalidou. Hell: Against Universalism.

I usually teach the following courses:

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

I joined the Department at Glasgow in 2005, having previously taught at the University of Stirling. I received by 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.

I am Director of the British Philosophical Association and Secretary of the Scots Philosophical Association. I am currently on the Management Committee and Editorial Board of The Philosophical Quarterly, and am also subject editor responsible for Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Religion for Oxford Bibliographies Online. 

Outside of academic philosophy, I have worked as a philosophical advisor for Quarantine theatre company on two productions: Make-Believe in 2009, and Entitled in 2011.