Michael Campbell
Lecturer, Kyoto University
A ‘transformative experience’ is an event which brings about a substantive change to a person’s worldview or deeply held values. In my recent work I investigate how such experiences are to be understood, what value they possess, and what ramifications they might have for our conception of the self.
I am the editor of The Philosophy of Transformative Experience (Routledge, 2024). I contributed two papers to the volume, 'Varieties of Transformation' and 'Coming Unstuck'.
In 2021 I edited a special issue of the online journal Syndicate, on Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon's book Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue.
From 2022-3 I was principal investigator of a Kyoto University SPIRITS project which brought together researchers to investigate the concept of transformative experience as it straddles issues in logic, epistemology, ethics and the philosophy of education.
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Selected Publications
Coming Unstuck in Campbell (Ed) The Philosophy of Transformative Experience, Routledge, 2024
