Carl Hildebrand is an ethicist and philosopher, having graduated with a DPhil in philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2018. His research engages questions at the intersection of ethics, moral psychology, and the history of philosophy. His current research focuses on the role of sympathy in Immanuel Kant’s conception of moral character and the good life, and he is working on a project on the philosophy of forgiveness funded by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong.
He has taught ethics in a variety of settings, most recently teaching “A Life Worth Living” and developing a new course titled “The Love We Give and the Lies We Tell: The Ethics of Relationships” for The University of Hong Kong’s Common Core curriculum. Prior to that he taught in philosophy departments at the University of the Fraser Valley and the University of Oxford. He has taught ethics to public policy students at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and medical students at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine.