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Ian James Kidd
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
Before coming to Nottingham, I was an Addison Wheeler Fellow and intermittent part-time lecturer at Durham and also spent six months at Leeds as lecturer in philosophy of religion. I also work to improve the intellectual and demographic diversity of academic philosophy.
Teaching Summary
My Nottingham modules are Topics in Asian Philosophy and Philosophy and Mortality. I also co-convene Normative Ethics, teaching the half of the course on vices and misanthropy. Cheerful stuff.
I also contribute lectures to Buddhist Philosophy and Philosophy in the Contemporary World (on veganism and on anti-natalism) and the Foundation Arts module, Important Thinkers Through History.
Research Summary
I am currently researching:
- Buddhism
- illness
- misanthropy
- classical Chinese philosophy
- moral and intellectual virtues and vices
I also have interests in aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of education, and topics in history of Western philosophy.