Professor Maria Alvarez

Biography

Before coming to King’s, Maria Alvarez was a lecturer at the University of Southampton, having previously taught at the Universities of Oxford and Reading. 

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Philosophy of action, including the metaphysics and explanation of actions
• Reasons for action, normativity
• Agent causation, agential powers
• Abilities, choice, freedom and moral responsibility

Teaching

• Philosophy of Mind and Action
• Ethics
• Metaethics 

Expertise and public engagement

‘The Philosopher’s Arms: Weakness of Will’, BBC radio4 Programme (Nov 15). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rxn59