Ben Bramble's Website

Hi there. I’m a moral philosopher at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. I am a Lecturer at the Fenner School of Environment & Society. I am an Affiliated Member of the School of Philosophy. I am also a Mission Specialist and Space Ethicist at ANU's Institute for Space (InSpace). I am also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy

I have written a number of books, including with OUP and Routledge. My latest book is a debates book on utilitarianism, co-written with James Lenman. 

I have published numerous journal articles, including these recent ones (click to download):

Passé Pains, Midwest Studies in Philosophy (2022)

The Defective Character Solution to the Non-Identity Problem, Journal of Philosophy (2021)

Unknown Pleasures, Philosophical Studies (2000)

For a full list of articles and downloadable access, click here


I also write for popular media on a range of topics, including articles in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Canberra Times.


In 2019-2020, I was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University. In 2018, I was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. I have previously held tenured lectureships at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Liverpool, where I was a Senior Lecturer.