Charlie Potter
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
PhD Student
Full contact details
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
- Qualifications
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MRes Philosophy
MA Philosophy
BA Fine Art
- Research interests
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Charlie is working on meaning in life as a source of reasons to be moral, particularly towards groups that are psychologically and practically distant from us, such as the global poor, farmed animals, and future people.
Charlie also has an interest in moral psychology and the degree to which people are self-interested, and the normativity of self-interest
- Research group
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Primary: James Lenman
Secondary: Max Hayward
- Grants
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Charlie Received a bursary to study an MRes in philosophy at Birkbeck.
- Teaching activities
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Charlie has tutored on the Death, Matters of Life and Death, Minds, Brains and Science, History of Ideas and Reason and Argument modules.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Charlie has been involved in organising the cognitive science speaker series.