Eric Wilkinson

FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow

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I primarily research meta-ethics, normative ethics, and political philosophy. In 2025, I recieved my PhD in Philosophy from McGill University, and from 2024-2025 I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. At the heart of my research are two questions: how can we gain moral knowledge, and what sort of community ought we to build on the basis of that knowledge? To answer the first question, my dissertation examined the fundamental similarities between the acquisition of moral and logical knowledge, which led me to defend a form of ethical intuitionism. The second prong of my research program instead combines ethics and social ontology. In particular, I have developed a theory of nations as ethical communities that are constituted by their internal diversity. In addition to these two main areas of research, another of my projects involves recovering the thought of pre-colonial Indigenous philosophers. At UBC, my postdoctoral project builds on my dissertation by exploring how the intuitions elicited by thought-experiments are used as evidence in philosophy, and by asking which intuitions make for better evidence.


Eric Wilkinson

FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow

About

I primarily research meta-ethics, normative ethics, and political philosophy. In 2025, I recieved my PhD in Philosophy from McGill University, and from 2024-2025 I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. At the heart of my research are two questions: how can we gain moral knowledge, and what sort of community ought we to build on the basis of that knowledge? To answer the first question, my dissertation examined the fundamental similarities between the acquisition of moral and logical knowledge, which led me to defend a form of ethical intuitionism. The second prong of my research program instead combines ethics and social ontology. In particular, I have developed a theory of nations as ethical communities that are constituted by their internal diversity. In addition to these two main areas of research, another of my projects involves recovering the thought of pre-colonial Indigenous philosophers. At UBC, my postdoctoral project builds on my dissertation by exploring how the intuitions elicited by thought-experiments are used as evidence in philosophy, and by asking which intuitions make for better evidence.


Eric Wilkinson

FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow
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I primarily research meta-ethics, normative ethics, and political philosophy. In 2025, I recieved my PhD in Philosophy from McGill University, and from 2024-2025 I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. At the heart of my research are two questions: how can we gain moral knowledge, and what sort of community ought we to build on the basis of that knowledge? To answer the first question, my dissertation examined the fundamental similarities between the acquisition of moral and logical knowledge, which led me to defend a form of ethical intuitionism. The second prong of my research program instead combines ethics and social ontology. In particular, I have developed a theory of nations as ethical communities that are constituted by their internal diversity. In addition to these two main areas of research, another of my projects involves recovering the thought of pre-colonial Indigenous philosophers. At UBC, my postdoctoral project builds on my dissertation by exploring how the intuitions elicited by thought-experiments are used as evidence in philosophy, and by asking which intuitions make for better evidence.