Nicholas Southwood is Head of School and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is also Co-Editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy. His work is primarily in moral and political philosophy but also engages with related issues in epistemology, philosophy of law and philosophy of social science. He is author of two published monographs, Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality (OUP, 2010) and Explaining Norms (OUP, 2014), a third mongoraph, Feasibility: On What Is Possible In Politics (under contract with OUP), and many articles in journals including Ethics, Mind, Noûs, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Philosophy & Public Affairs. His current research is primarily focused on the nature and proper role of feasibility in politics.

PhD, BA (Hons)