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Nick Zangwill is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at University College London. His work spans meta-normative ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. He has held academic positions at universities including Glasgow, Oxford, and Durham, and visited institutions globally from Tokyo to Belgrade. His research focuses on foundational questions in moral philosophy, aesthetic theory, and the nature of knowledge.
Research Interests:
- Meta-ethical dependence relations between moral/natural properties
- Aesthetic formalism and the metaphysics of beauty
- Epistemic dependence and categorial metaphysics
- Philosophical analysis of religious experience and theology
- Philosophy of music and art creation
Notable publications include The Metaphysics of Beauty (2001), Aesthetic Creation (2007), and over 150 articles across philosophy subfields. His work critiques emotion-based theories of music, defends formalist aesthetic principles, and explores theological essentialism.
Academic Contributions:
- Edited volumes: Scruton’s Aesthetics (2012), Essence and Context (2019)
- Key papers on Kantian disinterestedness, Hanslick’s musical formalism, and moral epistemology
- Engages with Wittgenstein, Kripke, and contemporary debates in metaphysics
