Michael B. Gill

Michael B. Gill, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, works on ethics from historical and contemporary perspectives. He writes about eighteenth century theories that hold that morality is based on human sentiments, and about recent developments in meta-ethics and moral psychology. He has also written about end-of-life issues, such as the ethics of physician-assisted suicide. At the moment, he is most interested in the disagreement about morality between Hume and Kant, and the extent to which that disagreement could (or could not) be settled by experimental philosophy. Gill is the author of a lot of articles, and of three books: The British Moralists on Human Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Humean Moral Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2014), and A Philosophy of Beauty (Princeton University Press, 2022).