Michael Wee

Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioethics at the University of Oxford’s Ethox Centre, where I am part of the ANTITHESES project investigating radical value disagreements in an age of polarisation and uncertainty. I have previously published on the topic of deep disagreements in ethics from a Wittgensteinian perspective, as well as the idea of liminal statuses in bioethics as a response to conceptual uncertainty.

I obtained my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Durham, with a thesis entitled ‘Action and Necessity: Wittgenstein’s “On Certainty” and the Foundations of Ethics’. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the relationship between language, action, and normativity in ethics, and my approach to this area of philosophy draws on various historical thinkers such as Wittgenstein, Anscombe, and Schopenhauer.

Research Interests