Katherine Martha

Graduate Student

Katherine Martha is a fifth year PhD Candidate in the philosophy department at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are in ethics, specifically post-Wittgensteinian ethics, moral psychology, and bioethics. Presently, Katherine is co-authoring a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Iris Murdoch with Dr. Matthew Congdon, as well as writing her dissertation, which contributes to the growing body of literature surrounding the reasons of love debate—which asks whether or not reasons of love are moral reasons—by arguing that love’s normativity has two dimensions: one ethical and one non-ethical.

At Vanderbilt, Katherine has been a teaching affiliate at the Center for Teaching (now AdvancED), is a current member of Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), and serves as the President of the Philosophy Graduate Student Association.