John Bengson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.  

He has held appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard University, the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University, and Universität zu Köln. He was awarded a fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for 2021-22 and summer 2023. Since 2024 he has served as an Editor for Noûs.

His research interests span practical and theoretical philosophy, encompassing topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind and action, metaethics, metaphysics, and methodology. These include intuition, perceptual experience, understanding, know-how, skill, intelligence and intelligent action, moral knowledge, the nature and grounds of normativity, constitution, essence, explanation, data, thought experiments, and philosophical progress. 

A few recent publications include: The Moral Universe (OUP, 2024), "The Source of Normativity" (Mind, 2023), "Socially Conscious Moral Intuitionism" (Noûs, 2023), "Pricean Reflection" (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2023), and Philosophical Methodology (OUP, 2022).