Macalester Bell

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Major Advisor 2024/2025
Macalester Bell headshot

Contact

Phone 610-526-5680
Website Personal Site
Location Dalton 100F

Department/Subdepartment

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Areas of Focus

Ethics and Moral Psychology

Biography

Macalester Bell works in ethics and moral psychology.  She also teaches and does some research in aesthetics and feminist philosophy.  Within ethics and moral psychology, she is especially interested in articulating an account of the appropriate attitudinal responses to serious immorality and injustice.  As part of this project, she has published papers on blame, forgiveness, inspiration, and the virtues and vices of anger. 

Her book, Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt (OUP, 2013), explores the dangers and moral importance of contempt for persons.

For more information on her papers, talks, and courses, please visit her personal website:
https://sites.google.com/site/macalesterbell/home