Zoe Walker

zoe walker
2022-25 Career Development Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, Oxford
2018-22 PhD in Philosophy, Cambridge University
2016-17 MPhil in Philosophy, Cambridge University
2013-16 BA in Philosophy, Cambridge University

 

 

Forthcoming: 'Comic Objectification', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
2024: 'Just Kidding: Two Roles for the Concept of Joking in Political Speech', Philosophical Quarterly 74 (4): 1338-1357

2024: 'A Sensibility of Humour', British Journal of Aesthetics 64 (1): 1-16'

I work on various philosophical issues surrounding humour, comedy and joking, at the intersection of Aesthetics, Ethics, Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Mind. I also have a more general interest in the relationship between art and morality, and language and politics.

I teach Prelims General Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Logic, Finals Aesthetics, Ethics, Practical Ethics, Knowledge and Reality, and Plato's Republic