Owen Clifton

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Research Interests

• Normative Ethics
• Political Philosophy
• Applied Ethics (esp. Bioethics)

Research

My research is primarily in moral and political philosophy. At present, my two principal research projects respectively concern:

• Our moral responsibilities with respect to future generations;
• The ethics of social and political membership.

Biography

I completed my PhD in philosophy at Queen’s University, during which I was also a Global Priorities Fellow and a Canada Graduate Scholar. In 2022, I was a visiting doctoral researcher in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and an early-career fellow at the University of Oxford’s Global Priorities Institute. By invitation of the Global Priorities Institute, I returned to the University of Oxford in 2023 as a visiting scholar. In the summer of 2026, I will take up a research fellowship at the University of Graz, working with environmental lawyers and moral philosophers on issues related to climate change.