Matt Matravers

Matt Matravers teaches political philosophy, and is director of the Morrell Studies in Toleration Programme, at the University of York. He is particularly interested in three things: first, the idea of responsibility and whether we can be legitimately held responsible for anything; second, the problem of ‘dangerousness,’ with particular reference to severely personality disordered people; and third, the relationship between theories of distributive justice and theories of retributive justice.
In 2004-2005, he was awarded the British Academy Thank Offering to Britain Fellowship to work on the problem of how the state should respond to dangerous people with severe personality disorders. Matt has written several books, including the 2007 publication Responsibility and Justice.