Rate My Professor Pekka Väyrynen

Väyrynen has authored the book The Lewd, the Rude and the Nasty: A Study of Thick Concepts in Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2013), the first book-length treatment of thick concepts. Notable publications include 'Normative Explanation and Justification' (Noûs, 2021), 'Normative Explanation Unchained' (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2021), 'Grounding and Normative Explanation' (Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 2013), 'Thick Concepts: Where’s Evaluation?' (Oxford Studies in Metaethics, 2012), 'Moral Generalism: Enjoy in Moderation' (Ethics, 2006), and 'Resisting the Buck-Passing Account of Value' (Oxford Studies in Metaethics, 2006). He serves as Associate Editor of Ethics and ethics section editor for Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, and was an output assessor for the Philosophy Sub-Panel of REF2021. His research has received grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme. Väyrynen supervises PhD dissertations in moral philosophy, particularly on topics such as the nature of explanation in ethics, semantics of normative language, metaphysics and epistemology of ethics, and metaethics generally. He is affiliated with the Centre for Aesthetic, Moral and Political Philosophy and the Centre for Theoretical Philosophy at Leeds.