Matthew J. Cull

Matthew J. Cull is Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in the Centre for Biomedicine Self and Society. They are a philosopher working on a variety of topics in applied and social philosophy, broadly construed.

Their research interests include:

• Transgender and Feminist Philosophy
• Ethics
• Philosophy of Language
• Social and Political Philosophy
• History of Philosophy
• Epistemology
• Social Ontology

Matthew is currently working on two books: one What Gender Should Be looks at the semantics and metaphysics of gender, whilst the other, Transgender Realism, is an interdisciplinary analysis of the current crisis of trans politics in the UK.

Their recent publications include:

• “Demarcating the Social World with Hume” Philosophical Papers Volume 51, Issue 1, pp.69-88 (2022).
• "Epistemic Injustice and Trans Lives" in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves Volume 2 Oxford University Press (2022).
• "Towards a Queer Realism: Review of Sexual Hegemony" Women, Gender, and Research Volume 126, Issue 1 (2022).
• “Engineering is not a Luxury: Black Feminists and Logical Positivists on Conceptual Engineering” Inquiry Volume 64 (2021).
• “Contradiction Club: Dialetheism and the Social World” Journal of Social Ontology Volume 5, Issue 2 pp.169-180 (2020) (Co-authored with Emma Bolton).
• "Against Abolition" Feminist Philosophy Quarterly Volume 5, Issue 3 (2019).
• "Dismissive Incomprehension" Social Epistemology Volume 33, Issue 3 pp. 262-271 (2019).l
• "When Alston Met Brandom: Defining Assertion" Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio Volume 13, Issue 1 pp.19-33 (2019).