IAN JAMES KIDD
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​I'm an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and previously worked at Durham and Leeds.

My main current work is a monograph defending a form of
misanthropy.

I am also working on pessimism, moral and epistemic virtues and vices, mortality and illness, grief and loss, and epistemic injustice and illness. ​From 2023-2029, I am a co-investigator on the Wellcome-funded project EPIC: Epistemic Injustice in Health Care, working, at Nottingham, with two postdoctoral researchers, Eleanor Byrne and Alice Monypenny.

My wider work includes comparative philosophy, especially in relation to south and east Asian philosophies, primarily Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism. 

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​​​I also do public philosophy, am an advocate of the diversification of philosophy.


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(A view, facing east, from the Higashiyama Jisho-ji, a Zen Buddhist temple and garden in Kyoto, November 2017).
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  • Home
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  • Epistemic Injustice and Illness Bibliography
  • Events
    • Desire Workshop
    • EPIC JANUARY 2025
    • CTPR 1
    • CHP Jan 2025
    • Pessimism, Nihilism, and Misanthropy
    • Pain, Meaning, Mental Health, and Self
    • Philosophy of Psychiatry
    • Mind, Mental Health, and Epistemic Injustice
    • Transhumanism
    • Narrative, Mental Health, and Experiences of Adversity
    • Global Philosophy of Religions
    • Ancient Philosophy
    • VICES OF THE MND >
      • Animals and Environment >
        • Transformative experience
        • Ethics and Exemplarism
        • Epistemic Vices
        • Feyerabend
        • Metaphilosophy
        • Mary Midgley
        • Philosophy of Education
        • Philosophy of Science
        • 20th Century Austro-German Philosophy
        • Scientism
        • Epistemic virtues
        • Philosophy of Religion and the Spiritual Life
        • Philosophy of Illness and Healthcare
        • Chinese philosophy
        • Publications (by date)
        • Feminist Philosophy
        • Charles Fort
        • Epistemology
        • Phenomenology
        • Misanthropy
        • Epistemic injustice
        • Social and institutional epistemology
        • Buddhist philosophy
        • Terrorism
        • Aesthetics
      • Epistemic Virtues and Vices in a Non-Ideal World
      • Epistemic Vices: Individual and Collective
      • Civic Vices
      • Pessimism, Nihilism, and Misanthropy
      • Kosterfest
      • MHMHI
      • Animals, Ethics, and Ideology
      • Ritual and Practice in Chinese Philosophy
      • Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy
      • Civic Virtues
      • JUST PHILOSOPHY 3
      • History of Philosophy >
        • Midgleyfest
        • Buddhist Philosophy
  • Teaching
  • Grief
  • Philosophy of technology
  • Philosophy and Ageing