Victor Kumar

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track) at Boston University.

My research is primarily in naturalistic ethics. I think about how fundamental
moral questions can be illuminated by empirical research in cognitive science 
and evolutionary theory. I am also interested in feminism, philosophy of race, 
​and their relationship to urgent issues of social injustice in the 21st century.

I completed a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2013 at the University of Arizona, where I wrote a dissertation on moral thought under the supervision of Shaun Nichols.

After my Ph.D., I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan and
then later at the University of Toronto. During graduate school, I spent a year as
a visiting fellow at Harvard University and Joshua Greene's Moral Cognition Lab. 

I am a member of the interdisciplinary Moral Psychology Research Group.

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