S. Deon Wu

Photo Taken on a Bus in Ecuador

About

I work on topics in moral and political philosophy. My general research interests lie in reasons and normativity, and in terms of the history of moral philosophy, I specialise in the works of the ethical intuitionists, in particular, British ethical theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing. I completed my PhD in philosophy at the University of Reading under the supervision of  Brad Hooker and Philip Stratton-Lake. I received my MRes in Philosophy from University of Reading, MA in Teaching from Tufts University and BA from New York University (NYU). Prior to coming to the UK, I was for several years a high school English literature teacher at private secondary schools in Guangzhou and Shanghai. I have taught the history of ethics, contemporary social and political philosophy, normative and applied ethics, meaning in life, and a module on W.D. Ross's The Right and the Good. I am currently teaching the module Speech Attacks: Bullshit, Lies, and Propaganda.

News

• BSET Southampton 2025

Keynotes: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus) and Hether Widdows (Warwick)

• Ratio Annual Conference 2025

Intuitions and Reasons: in Memory of Philip Stratton-Lake

https://philevents.org/event/show/130334

• BSET Edinburgh 2024

Keynotes: Maria Alvarez (KCL) and Jonathan Webber (Cardiff) 

• 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures: (Rescheduled for March 4th, 6th & 8th of 2024)

Tom Hurka 

 Knowledge and Achievement: Their Value, Nature and Public Policy role

• BSET Reading 2023

Keynotes: Helen Frowe (Stockholm) 

• viva voce (June 13th, 2022)

Examiners: Charlotte Newey (Reading) and Roger Crisp (Oxford)

• Ratio Conference 2021

 Rules to Live By: In Honour of Brad Hooker

https://philevents.org/event/show/86210

• Co-organised 2019 REAPP Conference 

 http://reappconference2019.weebly.com/ 

• Co-organised 2018 REAPP Conference

https://philevents.org/event/show/61394 

Publications

• Wu, S. Deon (2022) 'Fairness as Comparative Desert' Ratio https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12358