Emeritus ProfessorStan Van Hooft

Emeritus Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education

  • Emeritus Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education
  • +61 3 924 43973 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Professor van Hooft has written in international journals on moral philosophy,
philosophical psychology, bioethics, business ethics, and on the nature of
health and disease. His more recent work has been on global ethics,
cosmopolitanism, the political philosophy of international relations, and the
virtue of hope. Stan draws his philosophical inspiration from such classical
philosophers as Plato, Aristotle and Kant, as well as such contemporary
thinkers as Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas and Bernard Williams.
Professor van Hooft's current research centres on Global Ethics and Political
Philosophy, the concept of caring in contemporary moral theory, the role of
hope in politics and religion.

Knowledge Areas
Applied Ethics and Moral Theory, Classical Philosophy, Political and Social
Philosophy, Existentialism, Aesthetics

Projects
Professor van Hooft is currently editing "The Handbook of Virtue Ethics". He
is also researching the role of caring for the self in moral motivation and
practical reason.

In 2013, Professor van hooft presented a paper at the 23rd World Congress of
Philosophy in Athens, Greece.