Dr Adam Etinson

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2467

Email

ae45@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Adam Etinson's work explores topics in ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, and social epistemology. He recently edited a book on the philosophy of human rights. At the moment, he's working on projects on anger, dignity, guilt, and wonder.

For more information on Adam's research and teaching, visit his website at www.adametinson.com

PhD supervision

• Mario Bison

Selected publications

• The lure of minimalism

  Etinson, A., 20 Aug 2025, The Routledge handbook of philosophy of human rights. Tomalty, J. & Woods, K. (eds.). 1st ed. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, (Routledge handbooks in philosophy).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Visions of human rights

  Etinson, A. & Song, J., Nov 2025, Cambridge history of rights: volume 5: The twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Moyn, S. & Terretta, M. (eds.). Cambridge, Vol. 5. (The Cambridge history of rights).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Human rights

  Nickel, J. & Etinson, A., 31 May 2024, Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. (Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy; vol. Fall 2024).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Open access

  Wiggins on ethical objectivity and ‘Des Cannibales’

  Etinson, A., 4 Aug 2022, In: Philosophy. 97, 3, p. 321-336 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Dignity in ‘the streets’: a comment on Gilabert

  Etinson, A., 5 Jun 2021, In: Journal of Global Ethics. 16, 3, p. 288-293 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

• Open access

  What's so special about human dignity?

  Etinson, A., 23 Oct 2020, In: Philosophy and Public Affairs. 48, 4, p. 353-381 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• On ‘aristocratic’ dignity

  Etinson, A., 28 Nov 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Political Theory. Online First

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Conversation

  Etinson, A., 21 Aug 2018, In: New Literary History. 49, 2, p. 267-273

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Human rights: moral or political?

  Etinson, A., Mar 2018, Oxford : Oxford University Press. 508 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Some myths about ethnocentrism

  Etinson, A., 22 Mar 2018, In: Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 96, 2, p. 209-224 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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