I specialize in normativity, and I like to call the bulk of what I do meta-normativity. So I look at first-order inquiries in ethics, prudence, rationality, epistemology, political philosophy and philosophy of law, and gravitate toward the second-order semantic, meta-semantic, metaphysical, epistemic, psychological and logical questions that arise. Sometimes I stick to the first-order inquires to weigh in on what matters and what reasons we have. 


I recently became one of the executive editors (that’s an associate editor as far as I can tell) at the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. We are in the process of moving to Routledge, which will be nice.


For a recent conversation with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong about ethical intuitions check out the video at Philosophy TV.


In 2011-12 I co-organized a series of talks (with my fried in Psychology, Kiley Hamlin) on The Cognitive Science of Morality.  The lineup is here.


Matt Bedke

Assistant Professor

University of British Columbia

Philosophy Department

1866 Main Mall E370

Vancouver, BC

Canada V6T 1Z1


email: mbedke@mail.ubc.ca