Iain King (born 1971) is a contemporary British moral philosopher. He studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, and was latterly a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Outside philosophy, he has written on Kosovo, the Northern Ireland Peace Process, and postwar reconstruction.
In his book How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time and a series of light-hearted university lectures, King has tried to explain several divergent theories of meta...
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Iain King (born 1971) is a contemporary British moral philosopher. He studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, and was latterly a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Outside philosophy, he has written on Kosovo, the Northern Ireland Peace Process, and postwar reconstruction.
In his book How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time and a series of light-hearted university lectures, King has tried to explain several divergent theories of meta-ethics and ethics in entertaining and accessible terms, and how they can be reconciled. In the manner of early enlightenment philosophers, King has tried to apply the scientific revolution to ethics just as Isaac Newton applied it to physics, in an attempt to replace commonplace guesswork and judgement in matters of right and wrong with everyday formulas for what people should do in difficult situations, all backed up by deductive proof rather than opinion. He also tries to reconcile a clear account of right and wrong with the possibility of...
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