I am a philosopher at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, based in the Fenner School of Environment & Society (and with affiliations at ANU's School of Philosophy and InSpace). My research focuses on the ethics of science and emerging technologies in three key domains: medicine & biology, space, and AI & robotics. In my more theoretical work, I am developing a novel form of virtue consequentialism.

My new monograph, Lunacy: Ten False Promises of the New Space Age, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2026.

Earlier monographs include: Should We Maximise Utility?: A Debate About Utilitarianism (with James Lenman) (2025), and Pandemic Ethics (2000).

I have published over twenty academic articles in journals like The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Philosophical Studies. For a full list of articles and downloadable access, click here. 

Before coming to ANU, I was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University (2019-2020), and before that (2018) a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Prior to that, I held tenured lectureships at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Liverpool, where I was a Senior Lecturer.  

I also write for popular media, including pieces in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Sydney Morning Herald.

To contact me, please email me at ben.bramble[at]anu.edu.au