Professor Timothy Chappell
Timothy Chappell was born in Bury, Lancashire, in 1964. After school he spent 1983-4 teaching English as a foreign language in Gujranwala, Pakistan. He then read Classics and Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford (1984-88), and wrote his doctorate (a comparison of Aristotle's and Augustine's views on free will) in the Divinity Faculty of Edinburgh University (1989-1992). Between 1992 and 1995 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, and a lecturer at Merton College in Oxford. He has also taught for the Workers' Educational Association, and at UEA, Manchester, and Dundee. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and a Visiting Fellow twice in St Andrews (in the School of Latin and Greek, and in the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) and once in Edinburgh (at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities). He is Treasurer of the Mind Association and Reviews Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly. He is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Philosophical, Anthropological, and Film Studies at St Andrews. He held AHRC research fellowships in 2001-2 and in 2005-6.
Professor Chappell's biggest recent research project (AHRC funded) has been the completion of a ninth book, provisionally entitled Ethics and the Vision of Value, which is currently under consideration for publication. It presents a moral-realist position in metaethics, and a position in normative ethics that Professor Chappell calls "value ethics". The realist metaethics starts from the thoughts that properties are patterns; that perception is pattern-recognition; and that moral perception is recognition of a particular sort of pattern.
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