Rate My Professor Francois Schroeter

François Schroeter is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne's School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts. He joined the university in 2003 after completing his PhD and Habilitation at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and holding positions at the University of Michigan and the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Originally from Switzerland, Schroeter was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. His academic work bridges Continental and analytic philosophy traditions. His primary research specialization is metaethics, encompassing moral psychology, Kantian ethics, normative concepts, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, emotions, agency, philosophy of race and gender, social hierarchies, First Nations philosophy, and legal concepts.

In recent years, Schroeter has been involved in significant collaborative projects, including the Australian Research Council-funded "Constructing Social Hierarchy" with Sally Haslanger, Greg Restall, Karen Jones, and Laura Schroeter, which examines the role of conceptual structures in maintaining social subordination. He is co-authoring a monograph on concepts with Laura Schroeter, drawing on psycho-linguistics, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, and collaborating with Kevin Toh on metasemantics for fundamental legal disagreements. Schroeter has published extensively in leading philosophy journals, often co-authoring with Laura Schroeter. Notable publications include "The Limits of Metalinguistic Negotiation: The Role of Shared Meanings in Normative Debate" (2022, Canadian Journal of Philosophy), "Do Emotions Represent Values?" (2015, Dialectica), "The Generalized Integration Challenge in Metaethics" (2019, Noûs), "A Third Way in Metaethics" (2009, Noûs), "Reasons as Right-Makers" (2009, Philosophical Explorations), and "A Slim Semantics for Thin Moral Terms?" (2003, Australasian Journal of Philosophy). He co-edited and contributed to "The Many Moral Rationalisms" (2018, Oxford University Press) with Karen Jones. As an educator, Schroeter teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses such as Philosophical Methodology (PHIL90024), The Foundations of Interpretation (PHIL30024), Researching Ideas (ARTS90012), and The Philosophy of Philosophy (PHIL30007), employing innovative flipped classroom methods.