J. Piers Rawling

J. Piers Rawling has wide-ranging philosophical interests, from moral philosophy, rationality, and reasons to the philosophy of language to quantum computing. More recently, he has been writing on the emotions. Rawling greatly enjoys collaboration. Much of his work in moral philosophy was in collaboration with his former colleague (now retired) David McNaughton, and Rawling's work on the emotions is with his colleague Randy Clarke. Rawling has also collaborated with an applied mathematician, Steve Selesnick (University of Missouri, now retired), in work on quantum logic and computing. He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Rationality (Oxford University Press 2004) with his colleague Al Mele, and The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy with Philip Wilson of the University of East Anglia in the UK (Routledge 2019). Rawling recently authored the Cambridge Element entitled Deontology (Cambridge University Press 2023), and he is currently in the process of editing The Oxford Handbook of Deontology. Rawling chaired the department from 2004 to 2022, and still has various administrative roles.