Katherine Martha

Graduate Student

Katherine Martha is a third year PhD student in the philosophy department at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are in ethics, specifically metaethics, moral psychology, and medical ethics. Her most recent research engages in topics that range from friendship, to narrative medicine, to theories of attention. Katherine has presented her work on theories of well-being as well as her historical, interpretive work on Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy. Presently, Katherine is conducting research for her dissertation, which will engage with 20th century and contemporary analytic accounts of love and will investigate love’s role in moral agency (which, to show her cards, she thinks is central).

 

At Vanderbilt, Katherine is a member of Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), serves as the Secretary and Teaching Representative of the Philosophy Student Government Association, and is an affiliate at the Center for Teaching.