Catherine Fullarton

BA (Vind), MA (Toronto Metropolitan), MA (Emory University), PhD in progress (Emory University)

Catherine Fullarton holds a BA in History and Contemporary Studies from the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. She completed an MA in Philosophy at Ryerson University, where her Major Research Paper considered the experience and expressivity of pain in terms of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment and intersubjectivity. In her current work, Catherine is interested in questions related to empathy and moral expertise – specifically, how Aristotle’s description of phronesis (practical wisdom) might provide the basis for thinking about a kind of empathy as moral expertise, and the relevance of this expertise for medical professionals.

More broadly, she is interested in questions relating to ethics, interpersonal relationships, emotions, the body, experiences of health and illness. She is a former board member of the Canadian Bioethics Society-Societé canadienne de bioéthique (CBS-SCB) and the author of an article on grief, published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.