Dr Garrath Williams

Senior Lecturer

Research Overview

I have wide interests in moral philosophy, political theory, and applied ethics. In recent years, I have focussed on Kantian approaches to moral and political questions. As part of our current AHRC-funded project, my book, Kant Incorporated, will appear in the autumn. For 2025-26, I will be working on a Kantian approach to transnational business as a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. This work has been inspired by earlier EU-funded work on children, health and public policy, and I continue to write about food systems and broader questions about responsibility in applied ethics.

Selected Publications

Kant Incorporated
Williams, G. 31/10/2025 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781009641388.
Book

Ideals are important, but our reality has other ideas
Williams, G. 7/05/2025 In: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 8 p.
Journal article

Employment, status, hierarchy: on Jordan Pascoe, Kant’s Theory of Labour
Williams, G. 20/11/2024 In: Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy. 20, p. 7-15. 9 p.
Journal article

Beyond (Non)-Instrumentalization: Migration and Dignity within a Kantian Framework
Mieth, C., Williams, G. 30/04/2023 In: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 26, 2, p. 209-224. 16 p.
Journal article

Kant's account of reason
Williams, G.D. 4/01/2023 In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Poverty, dignity, and the kingdom of ends
Mieth, C., Williams, G. 31/12/2021 In: Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends. New York : Routledge p. 206-223. 18 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)

The Social Creation of Morality and Complicity in Collective Harms: A Kantian Account
Williams, G.D. 1/07/2019 In: Journal of Applied Philosophy. 36, 3, p. 457-470. 14 p.
Journal article

Regulation Enables: Corporate Agency and Practices of Responsibility
Williams, G.D. 02/2019 In: Journal of Business Ethics. 154, 4, p. 989-1002. 14 p.
Journal article

The IDEFICS intervention: what can we learn for public policy?
Williams, G.D. 27/12/2015 In: Obesity Reviews. 16, Suppl. 2, p. 151-161. 11 p.
Journal article

Disclosure and responsibility in Arendt’s The Human Condition
Williams, G. 01/2015 In: European Journal of Political Theory. 14, 1, p. 37-54. 18 p.
Journal article

Childhood obesity: ethical and policy issues
Voigt, K., Nicholls, S., Williams, G. 25/04/2014 New York : Oxford University Press. 251 p. ISBN: 9780199964482 .
Book

Sharing responsibility and holding responsible
Williams, G. 11/2013 In: Journal of Applied Philosophy. 30, 4, p. 351-364. 14 p.
Journal article

Responsibility as a Virtue.
Williams, G. 08/2008 In: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 11, 4, p. 455-470. 16 p.
Journal article

Dangerous victims: on some political dangers of vicarious claims to victimhood
Williams, G. 2008 In: Distinktion - Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. 9, 2, p. 77-95. 19 p.
Journal article

Hannah Arendt: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers.
Williams, G.(., Williams, G. 2006 London : Routledge. 1664 p. ISBN: 0415343305.
Book

  • Ethics Values and Policy Initiative
  • FASS Health Hub