Michael Rubin

Michael Rubin serves as an Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Philosophy at The University of Western Australia's School of Humanities. Holding a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he maintains active research in metaethics while teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses including Ethics for the Digital Age and Metaethics. His contact details include email michael.rubin@uwa.edu.au and phone 08 6488 2115.

Education

• PhD in Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Rubin's research centers on metaethics with emphasis on moral disagreement and normative naturalism, extending to normative ethics, philosophy of language, and epistemology. His work engages moral realism, anti-realism, and natural kinds within ethical theory, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals in education and environmental justice. Key fingerprint topics include Moral (100%), Twins (56%), and Metasemantics (29%).

His publication record (2015-2023) demonstrates consistent exploration of metaethical semantics and moral realism foundations. Recurring themes include Moral Twin Earth arguments, hybrid semantics, and environmental ethics implications of anti-realism, revealing a cohesive program bridging linguistic analysis and normative theory across 10 research outputs.

No scientific awards were documented in the source material.

Rubin has supervised four research students and secured two grants: 'Explanation in Science and Metaphysics: Bridging the Gap' (2015) as co-investigator and 'Morality and Empirical Explanations' (2013) as lead investigator. His collaborations include S. Baron, M. Colyvan, and K. Miller across philosophy of science and ethics domains.

He participates in interdisciplinary teams addressing philosophical dimensions of environmental values and global justice frameworks, with research cited in Scopus yielding an h-index of 3.