Tim McKee
(he/him)
Position:
Graduate Student
Campus:
St. George,Email Address:
Biography:
- BA Honours (Philosophy), McGill University
- MA (Ancient Philosophy), Western University
Tim McKee is a PhD student. His main area of research is moral psychology, especially as it relates to personal identity. His dissertation is on narrative approaches to the self, in particular whether understanding your life narratively is consistent with taking an agential stance toward your character and actions. Currently he’s working on narrative and social media – whether the self-conceptions fostered by social media reflect a plausible ideal of narrativity. Beyond his dissertation, Tim is also interested in ancient Greek ethics, philosophy in the Mahābhārata, and existentialism. The topics that engage him the most are moral motivation, mental conflict, habituation, selfhood, trust, and friendship.