Ben Bramble's Website

I am a moral philosopher at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. My research focuses on the ethics of emerging technologies in three domains: space,  AI & robotics, and medicine & biology.

My books include: 

• Lunacy: Ten False Promises of the New Space Age (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) 

• Should We Maximise Utility?: A Debate About Utilitarianism (with James Lenman) (2025)

• Pandemic Ethics (2000) 

I have also 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. 

I am a Mission Specialist at ANU's Institute for Space (InSpace), and a Lecturer in the Fenner School of Environment & Society, as well as an Affiliated Member of the School of Philosophy. Before coming to ANU, I was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University (2019-2020), and before then (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