Kathleen Murphy-Hollies

• BA Philosophy
• MA Philosophy

• I have taught small group seminars on the following modules: Problems of Philosophy LC, Reasoning, Propaganda and Public Discourse LC, Moral Problems LC, Moral and Political Philosophy LC and Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health and Well-being LM.
• I have also co-supervised Masters dissertations on the Ethics of Early Intervention in Mental Health
• I have achieved Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

My PhD research considers how self-perceptions, self-narratives and explanations of our own behaviour affect our ability to embody various moral virtues. We sometimes confabulate, employing false and ill-grounded claims when justifying ourselves and our behaviour. Nonetheless, I argue that when agents have certain skills and are in certain circumstances, this can ultimately contribute to forming sensitivities and ongoing motivations for demonstrating moral virtues.

For full information on me and my work, please see my website: https://kathleenmurphyhollies.weebly.com/.

Talks:

•  ‘When a Hybrid Account of Disorder are not enough; the Case of Gender Dysphoria’:
  Open Sessions at Joint Session 2020
  Women-In-Philosophy group at UoB
  
  
• ‘The Vulnerability of Virtuous Behaviour to Everyday Confabulation’
  Open Sessions at Joint Session 2021
  European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), August 2021
  
  
• ‘Exceptionalism at the time of COVID-19: where nationalism meets irrationality’
  ‘Cognitive Distortions and Democratic Failings’ at University of Piemonte Orientale, May 2021

• ‘The Aretaic Value of Self-Know-How’
  

   ‘Understanding Value’ in Sheffield, July 2021
   ‘Reasons, rationality and culture’ workshop at Tilburg University, October 2021

•  I organise PG workshops for research students to present their work, and a moral psychology reading group.