Zoe Walker
College positions:
Director of Studies in Philosophy (Part IA and II)
Subject:
Philosophy
Zoe Walker is a PhD Student in the Faculty of Philosophy, she is Magdalene's Director of Studies in Philosophy and a College Lecturer in Philosophy.
I am writing my PhD on the philosophy of humour, looking at the moral and political role of humour as viewed through the lenses of both philosophy of language and aesthetics. I have a broader interest in speech acts and aesthetic taste and their respective roles in sustaining ideologies.
I supervise undergraduates in IA Metaphysics, Meaning, and Ethics and Political Philosophy, and II Ethics and Aesthetics, and have also taught a IA Formal Methods class.
- Philosophy of humour
- Aesthetics (especially aesthetic taste, and intersections with ethics and political philosophy)
- Philosophy of language as it intersects with social and political philosophy
- Moral psychology and the reactive attitudes
