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Robert Cowan is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He serves as Director of Teaching for Philosophy and is a Humanities Widening Participation Officer. His research focuses on moral epistemology, the normativity of dreams, and the role of emotions in justification. He has published extensively on ethical intuitionism, dream theory, and evaluative perception. Cowan co-authored Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide (5th ed., 2019) and co-edited Evaluative Perception (2018). He teaches courses including 'How Do I Think Critically?' and 'Dreams' at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
His research explores topics such as moral responsibility in dreaming, the ethics of dreams, and the cognitive science of pain. Recent work includes analyses of lucid dreaming's epistemic implications and the intersection of safety conditions in epistemology. Cowan currently supervises PhD students on topics like democratic paradoxes, interactive cognitivism, and moral agency in manipulated will scenarios. His editorial contributions include special issues in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and Philosophical Studies.
Key contributions include advancing perceptual intuitionism, critiquing epistemic sentimentalism, and integrating empirical findings on pain into ethical theory. His work bridges analytic philosophy with interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology and epistemology.
