Arthur Krieger

I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA, USA), and an award-winning researcher and humanities instructor.

I work in bioethics and philosophy of psychiatry. Much of my research aims to clarify the puzzling phenomenon of addiction, by combining philosophical resources with insights from neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and people with lived experience. I am one of the few philosophers currently arguing that addiction is a compulsion, in the sense that it often makes us incapable of doing otherwise. Building on my descriptive work, I also research various ethical dimensions of addiction, including moral responsibility for addictive behavior, the ethics of prescribing habit-forming drugs, and the ethics of public health approaches to addiction. I have broader research interests in healthcare ethics and philosophy of medicine.

I am a passionate teacher. In addition to my research areas, I have a record of excellence in teaching normative ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of art, ancient philosophy, modern philosophy, and more.

In my free time, I love to boulder, rollerblade, ballroom dance with my amazing wife, and play old video games.