Matthew Congdon

I am an assistant professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. I specialize in ethics, social philosophy, and aesthetics. My work is unified by an overarching interest in moral change. I am interested both in how individuals develop their ethical outlooks over time and how social struggles bring about larger-scale, historical changes. Though I focus primarily on making interventions in contemporary philosophical conversations, my work is deeply informed by the history of philosophy, especially Aristotle, G.W.F. Hegel, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. I also have scholarly interests in the ethical writings of twentieth-century philosophers Philippa Foot and Iris Murdoch.