Pablo Stafforini
Hello, and welcome. I am a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Oxford (Balliol College) and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. I am also one of the conveners of the Jurisprudence Discussion Group and one of the organizers of this year's Philosophy Graduate Conference.
Normativity is my primary research area. I'm also interested in philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, legal & political philosophy, metaethics, metaphyiscs and metaphilosophy.
Before coming to Oxford, I spent a year studying for a masters degree at the University of Toronto. Together with a few friends, I organized a discussion group on the work of Derek Parfit. The group is no longer active, but the companion website is still accessible, and regularly updated.
I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires, where I graduated in 2005. I have since left Argentina for greener pastures.
This homepage is strictly academic; my (rather minimalist) personal website can be found here.
Does life have meaning? Are there objective ethical truths? Do we have free will? What is the nature of our identity as selves? Must our knowledge and understanding stay within fixed limits? These questions moved me, and others, to enter the study of philosophy. I care what their answers are. While such other philosophical intricacies as whether sets or numbers exist can be fun for a time, they do not make us tremble.