• Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Macquire University Ethics & Agency Research Centre, Macquarie University

Dr Paul Formosa is the former Head of Department and current Professor in Philosophy at Macquarie University and founding Co-Director of the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre. Paul has been at Macquarie University since 2009, and has been a Macquarie University Research Fellow, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, and a chief investigator on various ARC Discovery Projects. Paul has published widely on topics in moral and political philosophy, with a particular focus on Kant's moral and political philosophy, moral evil, moral psychology, human dignity, philosophy and technology, and the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and video games. Paul is the author of over one hundred research outputs with leading international presses such as Oxford University Press and in leading international journals.

Experience

  • 2009–present
    Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University

Education

  • 2008 
    University of Queensland, PhD/Philosophy

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