Anton Ford

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Anton Ford is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and a Deputy Dean of the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching interests primarily lie within the realm of Practical Philosophy, broadly including Action Theory, Ethics, and Political Philosophy as well as figures such as Anscombe, Aristotle, and Marx. He is co-editor of Essays on Anscombe’s Intention (Harvard University Press, 2014) along with Jennifer Hornsby and Frederick Stoutland. His current work includes a monograph about the metaphysics and epistemology of human action, titled The Objectification of Agency.
Among his numerous publications are “The Parts and Whole of Plato’s Republic,” with Ben Laurence, in Practical Reason: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (De Gruyter, 2024), “Naïve Action Explanationism” in Analytic Philosophy (2019), and “The Province of Human Agency” in Noûs (2018).