Rate My Professor Richard Chappell

Chappell's primary research interests are in consequentialism and non-naturalist normative realism, alongside secondary interests in applied ethics—such as the harm of death, duties of beneficence, resource allocation, and effective altruism—and epistemology, including peer disagreement and higher-order evidence. He has authored books including Parfit’s Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2021), An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice (co-authored with Darius Meissner and William MacAskill, Hackett Publishing, 2024), and Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good (co-authored with Samuel Arnold, Jason Brennan, and Ryan Davis, Routledge, 2024). Selected articles feature "Willpower Satisficing" (Noûs, 2019), "The Right Wrong-Makers" (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2021), "Value Receptacles" (Noûs, 2015), "Virtue and Salience" (co-authored with Helen Yetter-Chappell, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2016), and "Pandemic Ethics: The Case for Risky Research" (co-authored with Peter Singer, Research Ethics, 2020). His honors include multiple University of Miami Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities (2020–2025), the Rocky Mountain Ethics Young Ethicist Prize (2013), Forethought Foundation fellowship (2021–2022), Longview Philanthropy grant (2022–2023), and Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship at Princeton (2010). Chappell serves on the editorial committee of Utilitas and as category editor for Consequentialism at PhilPapers.org.