Dr Charlotte Newey
Responsibilities
• Admissions tutor for BA Philosophy, BA Ethics, Value and Philosophy, BA Philosophy and Classical Studies, BA Philosophy and English Literature, BA Philosophy and International Relations, BA Philosophy and Politics, and BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
• PPE Coordinator
• Lecturing: In 2019-20 my third-year courses are: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, and PP3FAI Fairness in term 1. I’ll also run second year courses in Oppression, Inequality and the Enemies of Democracy in terms 2 and 3.
Background
I studied Philosophy at the University of Reading. My doctoral thesis focused on the topics of Fairness, Moral Demands, and Global Poverty and I continue to research issues relating to both Fairness and Distributive Justice.
Before joining Reading, I lectured in Ethics, Contemporary Political Philosophy and Feminism at the University of Warwick and in Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Aesthetics at Cardiff University.
Personal webpage: reading.academia.edu/CharlotteNewey
Areas of Interest
Moral and Political Philosophy, Responsibility and Distributive Justice, Fairness, Justice in Healthcare, and Global Poverty.
Research groups / Centres
Publications
2016
- Newey, C. (2016) Fairness as “appropriate impartiality” and the problem of the self-serving bias. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19 (3). pp. 695-709. ISSN 1572-8447 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9665-6
- Newey, C. (2016) Justice for children in healthcare: an asymmetric theory of responsibility. Dilemata: International Journal of Applied Ethics, 21. pp. 1-21. ISSN 1989-7022
- Review of Torbjörn Tännsjö's Taking Life, Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2016.
2017
- Review of Marcus Arvan’s Rightness as Fairness. A Moral and Political Theory in Ethics, 2017, 128 (1): 230- 235.