Matthew Cull

Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society

  • Usher Institute
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Contact details

Address

Street

Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society
Usher Institute - University of Edinburgh
23 Buccleuch Place

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9LN

Background

I did my undergraduate degree at the University of St Andrews, before doing my masters degree at Queen’s University Canada. Following this, I did my PhD at the University of Sheffield, which I finished in 2020. After a couple of short-term posts at the University of Reading and the University of Leeds, I’m now working as a researcher at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society.

Undergraduate teaching

This year I will be teaching on:

  • LAWS11397: Fundamentals in Bioethics
  • BIME10049: Biomedicine, Ethics and Society: Contemporary Issues
  • BIME10068: Bioethics, Law and Society: Foundations of Knowledge
  • Biomedical Sciences Honours Research Project

 

Research summary

My research mainly focuses on the nature of the social world, and how it might be changed for the better. I draw on a number of traditions, primarily analytic and feminist philosophy.

I’m working on a variety of issues at the moment:

  • Contemporary transgender politics in the UK, with an eye to the role that dispossession from healthcare plays in such conflicts.
  • A book for Bloomsbury, What Gender Should Be, which argues for a distinctive transfeminist position on the semantics and metaphysics of gender.
  • Political and applied philosophy of language.
  • (Bio)ethical and metaphysical questions about pregnancy, the family and family abolition.

I also have research interests in:

  • Epistemology,
  • Philosophical methodology,
  • Philosophy of race,
  • Logic,
  • Philosophy of science,
  • History of philosophy,
  • Philosophy of action.

For more details, along with a list of my previous publications, please see my website: https://matthewcull.wixsite.com/philosophy