Ben Bramble

​I’m a moral philosopher based at the Australian National University. Before coming to ANU, I was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University, and held tenured lectureships at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Liverpool.

My work covers many topics, including legal philosophy, medical and bioethics, ​animal ethics, population ethics, and more theoretical topics like consequentialism. I have published articles in The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Utilitas, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, American Philosophical Quarterly, and other journals. Much of my work is accessible via Philpapers.org here. 

My work on the pandemic, including my book Pandemic Ethics: 8 Big Questions of COVID-19 (published August, 2020), has been discussed in the LA Times, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg, among other outlets.

I also write for mainstream media. I’ve published pieces in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Salon, and The Conversation. Here are some recent pieces:

"The space tourism plans of Bezos, Musk, and Branson are morally reprehensible", The Sydney Morning Herald, July 5, 2021
"Are COVID vaccines vegan? Should I get one anyway? An ethicist explains", The Conversation, February 19, 2021
"Is Trump morally to blame for the violence at the Capitol?", ABC Religion & Ethics, February 13, 2021
"Let's inoculate at-risk Australians then send Covid vaccines overseas" (with Peter Collignon), The Guardian, February 8, 2021
"From universal healthcare to permanent vote-by-mail, the case for making pandemic policy permanent", Salon, August 16, 2020

For latest drafts of the following papers, please email me:

Can We Justify Punishment?
Making Miserable Beings
Passé Pains
A New Response to the Cluelessness Objection to Consequentialism