Patrick Jorgen Winther-Larsen

Patrick's area of specialization is moral responsibility and the topic of his doctorate is the ethics of third-party blame (and, by extension, the ethics of blame in general). Other research interests of his include the ethics of praise, apologies, forgiveness, trust, partiality, protests, collective agency, grandstanding, and related phenomena. He also has an interest in the history of philosophy (particularly the works of Plato and Kant), the philosophy of art, feminist philosophy, and epistemology.

Patrick joined SASP (the St Andrews and Stirling Graduate programme in Philosophy) in the fall of 2022. Prior to coming to St Andrews, he received his bachelor's (with a minor equivalent in art history from Antiquity to the Renaissance) and master's degrees in philosophy from the University of Oslo (UiO). Patrick's supervisors are Prof Jessica Brown and Dr Justin Snedegar (St Andrews/University of Virginia). He is also a postgraduate member of the department's research centres, CEPPA and Arché, as well as a previous convenor of the seminar stream ECT (Epistemology: Current Themes).

During his PhD, Patrick has also been on research visits at the University of Oslo (as an affiliate of the GoodAttention project) and Lund University.

Teaching

Spring 2024: PY2013 - Moral and Aesthetic Value

Fall 2023: PY2011 - Foundations of Western Philosophy

Spring 2023: PY1013 - The Enlightenment