Paul Carron

Dr. Paul Carron is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core (BIC) at Baylor University, with additional affiliation in the Department of Philosophy. His research bridges classical philosophical traditions with contemporary empirical psychology, focusing on moral responsibility, virtue ethics, and the intersection of technology with human moral life.

• Areas of Specialization: Moral Psychology, Virtue Ethics, Søren Kierkegaard, Aristotle: Ethics
• Key Teaching Roles: Coordinator of Social World I: The City and the Soul, courses on virtue theory, social psychology, biblical ethics, and ethics & technology

His recent publications analyze profound loneliness through Heidegger’s lens (2023), Nietzsche’s non-teleological virtue ethics (2025), and Aristotle’s voluntary action theory (2019). He explores emotion regulation as a skill underlying virtue (2021), critiques evolutionary moral sentimentalism via Kierkegaardian and Aristotelian frameworks, and develops interdisciplinary pedagogical models for teaching ethics in religiously plural environments.

Collaborations with Charles McDaniel focus on social justice education (2020) and virtue cultivation through emotion regulation (2013). His work often engages Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Aristotle to address modern challenges like technology-induced alienation and crowd psychology.