James Hutton
I am Assistant Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft. Previously, I worked at the University of Edinburgh and UCL and did my graduate work at the University of Cambridge.
My work defends the idea that we can gain ethical knowledge through emotional experience and applies this to environmental ethics.
In my view, emotions provide foundational—but fallible—starting points for ethical deliberation. In environmental ethics, this means that we shouldn't try to start out from abstract a priori principles, but from people's emotional experiences of the (dis)value of the nonhuman world and our interations with it.
I also have interests in the history of philosophy, especially Kant. I'm very interested in emotions and ethics across the history of European philosophy and in Chinese philosophers like Mengzi and Wang Yangming.
I've published in places like the European Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Ethics.
I like doing public philosophy too, from op-eds and public events to podcasts. In terms of "impact," I'm also part of a team developing an "Ethical Assessment Framework" for Dutch Ministry of Enterprise's Offshore Energy policy.
📧 j dot hutton at tudelft dot nl
My work defends the idea that we can gain ethical knowledge through emotional experience and applies this to environmental ethics.
In my view, emotions provide foundational—but fallible—starting points for ethical deliberation. In environmental ethics, this means that we shouldn't try to start out from abstract a priori principles, but from people's emotional experiences of the (dis)value of the nonhuman world and our interations with it.
I also have interests in the history of philosophy, especially Kant. I'm very interested in emotions and ethics across the history of European philosophy and in Chinese philosophers like Mengzi and Wang Yangming.
I've published in places like the European Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Ethics.
I like doing public philosophy too, from op-eds and public events to podcasts. In terms of "impact," I'm also part of a team developing an "Ethical Assessment Framework" for Dutch Ministry of Enterprise's Offshore Energy policy.
📧 j dot hutton at tudelft dot nl