Professor Jonathan Webber

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A Brief Bio

Jonathan Webber is a philosophy professor working at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of psychology. He is especially interested in what contemporary social psychology can offer to current debates in moral philosophy, and in how philosophy and psychology can be informed by twentieth-century French existentialism. He has dedicated his career to understanding and sharing how the works of existential thinkers such as Sartre and de Beauvoir developed over time and are relevent today. Jonathan has published extensively, offering books, papers, and essays. In Rethinking Existentialism, Jonathan articulates an original interpretation of existentialism as the ethical theory that human freedom is the foundation of all other values.