Associate Professor Charles Pigden
- Job title
- Associate Professor
- Telephone
- +64 3 479 8728
- Mobile
- + 64 (0) 22 471 803
- charles.pigden@otago.ac.nz
- Department
- Philosophy
- School
- School of Arts
- Division
- Division of Humanities
- Campus
- Dunedin
Expertise
Classics / Ethics / Philosophy
- The History of Philosophy in New Zealand
- Truthmaker theory: Do truths require facts to make them true?
- David Hume and Jane Austen
- Theories of Meaninglessness
- The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories: Are conspiracy theories *as such* intellectually suspect?
- David Hume on Is and Ought: Can you get moral conclusions from non-moral premises?
- Meta-ethics: The Objectivity (or Otherwise) of Ethics
- Ethics and the Milgram experiments
- Bertrand Russell in Ethics and Politics
- David Hume: Is Reason the Slave of the Passions?
- Karl Marx and Karl Popper
- Ought Implies Can: Can you be obliged to do the impossible?
