Arthur Krieger

I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA, USA), and an award-winning researcher and humanities instructor.

I work in bioethics and philosophy of psychiatry. Much of my research aims to clarify the puzzling phenomenon of addiction, by combining philosophical resources with insights from neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and people with lived experience. I am one of the few philosophers currently arguing that addiction is a compulsion, in the sense that it often makes us incapable of doing otherwise. Building on my descriptive work, I also research various ethical dimensions of addiction, including moral responsibility for addictive behavior, ethical issues around prescribing habit-forming drugs, and the intersection of medical ethics and Harm Reduction. I have broader research interests in healthcare ethics and the philosophy of medicine.

My teaching competencies span widely across value theory, including ethics, bioethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics. I am also comfortable teaching introductory philosophy and general education courses, as well as anything in or adjacent to my research, including action theory, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychiatry.