Seth Robertson is a (post-doctoral) Lecturer at Harvard University. He received his PhD in Philosophy in 2019 from the University of Oklahoma, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Houston, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Juniata College. He was a Dissertation Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing , and an inaugural member of the American Philosophical Association Graduate Student Council.
His research interests include moral psychology, the history of ethics, early Chinese ethics, social epistemology, virtue ethics, and metaethics. Seth’s research focuses on ways in which non-normative information should inform and constrain our normative theorizing. He has written about the intersection of social intelligence and virtue ethics as well as situationist critiques of virtue ethics, and is currently working on moral character, exemplarist moral theory, and the connection between epistemic injustice and rhetorical manipulation.
At Harvard, Seth teaches Human Ethics: A Brief History, Early Chinese Ethics, Epistemic Injustice, Ethics of Technology and Design, and Virtues & Vices. He has taught various introductory level courses in philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, and Asian philosophy, as well as a course in writing philosophy for majors. Seth is one of the founders of The Deviant Philosopher, a web resource which helps philosophy instructors better include philosophy from outside the traditional canon in their teaching.