Affiliation: University of Glasgow
Keywords: Bioethics, human enhancement, cognitive enhancement, love, trust, moral enhancement, emotional enhancement, philosophy of technology
Full profile: Emma is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, and Director of Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations at the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre. Before this, she was a Research Fellow at COGITO, and at the Eidyn Research Centre (University of Edinburgh).
Her main research interests are in applied ethics (especially bioethics, medical ethics, and the philosophy of technology), normative ethics (moral psychology, trust, emotions, and wellbeing), and epistemology (understanding, social epistemology, assertion, and intellectual virtues). Her work is often interdisciplinary, combining philosophy with medicine and psychology (including counselling and psychotherapy).
Her monograph Human Enhancement and Well-Being: A Case for Optimism was released by Routledge in 2022.