​I'm an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, having previously worked at Durham and Leeds.

I'm interested in some bleak themes (vulnerability, oppression, corruption) and some brighter ones (beauty, virtue, forms of religious life) and others in between. At the moment, I'm thinking most about epistemic virtue and vice in education, moral and spiritual exemplarity in ancient Indian and Chinese philosophy, and the philosophical significance of illness.

Other interests include topics in the philosophies of education, science, religion and the spiritual life, and themes in Austro-German philosophy.

​I'm also active in efforts to improve the intellectual and demographic diversity of philosophy. 

E: ian.kidd@nottingham.ac.uk
Upcoming events

There'll be an events on empathy and vulnerability and on vice epistemology, both in spring 2019.

(A view, facing east, from the Higashiyama Jisho-ji, a Zen Buddhist temple and garden in Kyoto, November 2017).