Dr. Michael Ridge
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Welcome!

For students I have made available all of my Course Syllabi. In addition, many important search tools for philosophy on the internet can be found in the Research Center. Under Course Info there are helpful guides to writing and reading about philosophy as well as a comprehensive Glossary of Terms. And visit the Academic Links section to find other great philosophy related resources.

Academics, you may also find the Research Center useful. Or visit the Published Works section to review my articles. Feel free to correspond, I've made Contact Info readily available.

For the curious, my Curriculum Vitae is on-line to read or print.

  Breaking News...
• My book on moral generalism as opposed to moral particularism, Principled Ethics: Generalism as a Regulative Ideal, co-authored with Sean McKeever, is out now.

• I am giving a talk on moral supervenience in Davidson on June 5th.

• I am giving a paper on Derek Parfit's new book held at Reading University in the Fall of 2006.

• I am participating in a session on metaethics at Cambridge with Russ Shafer-Landau in the Fall of 2006. I will be discussing moral supervenience there.

• I have added links to PDF files of my articles, both published and forthcoming. The links are available both from the 'published works' page and from my cv.

• I have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in philosophy, which I am currently using to advance my research on expressivism in meta-ethics.


"All modesty is false modesty; otherwise it wouldn't be modesty."

-- Alan Bennett


  • "Turning On Default Reasons," forthcoming, Journal of Moral Philosophy (with Sean McKeever).

  • "Particularism and the Contingent A Priori," forthcoming, in Acta Analytica (with Sean McKeever).

  • "Ecumenical Expressivism: The Best of Both Worlds?" Provisionally forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, volume two, Oxford University Press.

  • "Epistemology for Ecumenical Expressivists," forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.





  • General questions or comments? E-mail: mridge@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
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