Professor Maria Alvarez

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Professor of Philosophy; Head of Department

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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

Latest publications

Philosophy of Action 1945-2015 21 November 2019
Agency, Reasons and Rationality 01 November 2019
'Razones para Actuar' 01 June 2018
Acting as Causing Change: Beings and Doings 01 January 2018
False Beliefs and the Reasons We Don't Have 01 January 2018
[Book Review] Scott Sehon, Free Will and Action Explanation: A Non-causal, Compatibilist Account 01 July 2017
'Are Character Traits Dispositions?' 01 July 2017
Acting for Aesthetic Reasons 01 March 2017
Desires, Dispositions and the Explanation of Action 01 January 2017
When Ignorance is No Excuse 01 January 2017

4 March 2020

Professor Maria Alvarez

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Biography

Research interests and PhD supervision

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Expertise and public engagement

Latest publications

King's Philosophy Department ranks eighth in QS World University Rankings 2020

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