Joshua Fox
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Academic Departments
Areas of Focus
History of Ethics, 19th-Century Philosophy (especially the thought of Mill, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche)
Biography
I study historical debates about life’s value. In understanding why philosophers have taken particular doubts about life’s value seriously, I hope to learn more about what is involved in living well.
The central figures in my research are Mill, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. However, I am interested in accounts of human well-being quite broadly, and I have also published on Plato and Amartya Sen.
In my teaching, I use these questions about life’s value to introduce work from throughout the history of ethical thought.