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Stephen McLeod

Professor Stephen McLeod
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Research

Legal and Political Philosophy

Criminal Law: the law and ethics of entrapment; police ethics, including for undercover policing.

Liberal Theory: basic liberties; high liberalism; applied liberalism; liberal theory and the notion of need.

Needs

The logic, metaphysics, and epistemology of needs.

The relationship of the notion of need to those of harm and of well-being.

The role of the notion of need in legal, moral, and political theory.

Analytic Philosophy and its History

The logic, metaphysics, and epistemology of necessity and possibility.

Frege.

Logical positivism.

Essentialism.

Research grants

Entrapment, Criminal Justice, and Ethics

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

September 2023 - October 2026