Murphy-Philosophy Seminar: Ben Ferguson (Center for Ethics)
Visiting Faculty Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick
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Benjamin Ferguson is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, Director of the University’s PPE program, and a 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics. Professor Ferguson’s research in moral and political philosophy focuses on the ethics of market-based interactions like exploitation and fraud.
Dr. Ferguson co-edited The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism with Routledge in 2022. Professor Ferguson’s second co-edited book, Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics was published with Oxford University Press in 2024. In addition to Dr. Ferguson’s books, he has published in top-rated journals as such as Analysis, Philosophical Studies, Res Publica, and Economics & Philosophy. Professor Ferguson’s work has been supported by organizations such as the NWO and the British Academy.
Organized by the Tulane Philosophy Department, the Murphy-Philosophy Seminars are a series of workshops where CE Faculty Fellows and distinguished guest speakers present works in progress on ethics, political philosophy, political theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of law, and intellectual history. Papers are distributed one week beforehand to the participants who read the paper and prepare discussion questions for the presenter.
