Entrapment, Criminal Justice, and Ethics: Dr Jon Bebb appointed to teaching post
We are pleased to announce the appointment, under this project, of Dr Jon Bebb as a part-time lecturer. Dr Bebb’s appointment is to provide teaching cover for two of the project’s researchers.
Dr Bebb studied philosophy at the University of Manchester, where he was awarded a B.A. (First Class Honours, 2015), and M.A. (Distinction, 2016). He studied for a Ph.D. at Manchester, under the supervision of Prof. Helen Beebee and Dr Anne Whittle, and was awarded the degree in 2021.
Dr Bebb has taught a wide range of subdisciplines within analytic philosophy and has worked as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire and as a Teaching Associate at the University of Manchester.
His research is located at the intersection of metaphysics, philosophy of language, and epistemology. It focuses on the extent to which normative considerations shape the concepts that we use to understand the world, the philosophical issues that arise when these concepts are applied, and the ways in which these considerations challenge the existing naturalist paradigm within metaphysics. Currently, he is interested in understanding normality, where his novel approach is to argue that ‘normal’ is best understood as having one singular, contextual meaning.
In 2022, he published ‘Demarcating Contextualism and Contrastivism’ in the journal Philosophy and his article ‘Why We Should Not Assume That “Normal” Is Ambiguous’ is forthcoming in Analysis. He has also written chapters for the fifth volume of the Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, and for an edited collection on Poverty and Moral Psychology.
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