Dr Iain Law MA (Aberdeen), MPhil, PhD (Birmingham)

Dr Iain Law

Department of Philosophy
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 8336
Email
i.law@bham.ac.uk
Address
ERI Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I’m a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and also Head of Education for the School of Philosophy, Theology & Religion. My main interests are in meta-ethics, applied ethics and ethical theory, and I’m currently working on papers in moral theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of medicine and applied ethics.

Qualifications

  • MA Philosophy (Aberdeen)
  • MPhil (Birmingham)
  • PhD (Birmingham

Biography

I鈥檓 a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and also Head of Education for the School of Philosophy, Theology & Religion. My main interests are in meta-ethics, applied ethics and ethical theory, and I鈥檓 currently working on papers in moral theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of medicine and applied ethics. I鈥檓 also, with Lisa Bortolotti and Heather Widdows, a founding member of the Health and Happiness Research Cluster. This cluster undertakes research, runs a Masters programme on Health and Happiness and various workshop and seminar series on these themes, as well as producing co-authored publications. I published in Lisa Bortolotti鈥檚 collection on happiness, for example. In addition together Iain, Lisa and Heather supervise a number of students working on definitions of health, and health practice and policy.

Teaching

I teach Political Philosophy to first years, Virtue Ethics to third years, and various texts/skills modules to second years. I also contribute to several of our MA/MSc programmes.

Postgraduate supervision

Currently supervising PhD students working on: Natural Law approaches to ethics; competence and informed consent; self-deception and doxastic voluntarism.

Find out more - our PhD Philosophy  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Research

  • Moral theory in general including Kantianism, Utilitarianism, Virtue Ethics, etc.聽
  • Moral Psychology, autonomy, (moral) motivation.聽
  • The philosophy of health and disease.聽
  • Wellbeing and happiness

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Law, I 2011, '', Health Care Analysis, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 259-68.

Law, I & Widdows, H 2008, '', Health Care Analysis, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 303-14.

Law, I 2008, '', Ethic@, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 15-23. <>

Law, I 2003, '', Res Publica, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 39-56.

Law, I 2000, '', Res Publica, vol. 6, no. 1.

Law, I 2000, '', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 2, no. 3.

Chapter

Law, I 2009, . in L Bortolotti (ed.), Philosophy and Happiness. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-182.

Law, I 2009, . in Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical perspectives. Oxford University Press, pp. 351-364.

Law, I, van den Anker, C & Smith, R 2005, . in The Essential Guide to Human Rights.

Review article

Law, I 2000, '', The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 51, pp. 261-264.

Law, I 2000, '', Mind, vol. 109, no. 435, pp. 650-653.

Web publication/site

Law, I, , 2007, Web publication/site.

Law, I, , 2007, Web publication/site.

Expertise

  • Philosophy of wellbeing and happiness
  • Ethics in general
  • Sexual consent
  • Sexual ethics