Dr Kit Barton

Kit Barton is an expert in the area of business ethics and management theory with a background in philosophy. He has taught these subjects for 25 years in American, French and British universities. Kit's current research interests are focused on business ethics, population ethics and philosophy of management

Qualifications

• PhD Philosophy, University of Essex
• MA Philosophy, University of Malta
• BA (Combined Hons) Contemporary Studies & Philosophy, University of King's College

Relevant Past Employment

• 2016–current, Principal Lecturer in Leadership, Management & Ethics, Regent's University London
• 2013–2016 – Programme Director, Arts & Humanities, Regent's University London
• 2010–2013 Pathway Leader, American Postgraduate Business programmes, Regent's University London
• 2003-2010, Lecturer, Regent's University London

• “The Significance of Parfit’s ‘On What Matters’ for Ethical Judgement in a Business Context”, Philosophy of Management (forthcoming)
• “Friendship and Fission: Derrida and Parfit on Personal Identity”, Book Chapter in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship: Amity and Enmity, ed. Luke Collison, Cillian O Fathaigh and Georgis Tsagdis. University of Edinburgh Press, 2022
• “Producing the Experimental Ethicist”, Conference Proceedings of the Annual Conference of ACBSP Region 8, Geneva, Nov 2012
• “Future of Ethics in Leadership” CEO Today, vol.6, no.1, 2012
• “Teaching Business Ethics: An Existentialist and Pragmatist Approach”, Philosophy of Management, vol.10, no.1, Jan 2011
• “Experimental Ethics”, Conference Proceedings of the Philosophy of Management Annual Conference, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, July 2010
• “New Theories”, review of Paul Bowman’s ‘Interrogating Cultural Studies’, Parallax, vol.10, no.3, July – Sep 2004
• “Philosophy in a Digital World”, review of Hubert Dreyfus’s ‘Thinking on the Internet’, Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology, vol.31, no.2, 2004
• “Beauvoir’s Ethics”, review of Claudia Card’s ‘Cambridge Companion to Simone De Beauvoir’, Philosophical Writing, Issue 22, Spring 2004
• “What Is It We’re Waiting For?”, review of Jacques Derrida’s ‘Without Alibi’, Parallax, vol.9, no.2, 2003

Invited lectures and conference papers

• “Current Issues in Population Ethics”, invited lecture at Oxford University, Wycliffe Hall, November 2023
• “Smart Decision-Making for Ethical Issues”, invited lecture at Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, October 2023
• “Avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion: Any Continental Overlap?”, Society for European Annual Conference,  ELTE University Budapest, July 2023.
• “Problems with Sustainability: The Population Ethics Perspective”, invited lecture at House for Beautiful Business, London, March 2023.
• “Smart Decision-Making for Ethical Issues” at Oxford University, Wycliffe Hall (March 2023)
• "Derrida & Panpsychism”, Society for European Annual Conference, Newcastle University, August 2022.
• “Friendship and Fission: Derrida and Parfit on Personal Identity”, Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, Royal Holloway University, August 2019. 
• “Nietzsche and Phenomenology of History”, Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Essex, June 2018.
• “Problems with Sustainability: The Population Ethics Perspective”, Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Winchester, Sep 2017
• “The Business King vs. the Philosopher King: An Analysis of Robert Musil’s Understanding of Business Ethics”, Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, Kingston University, Sep 2013

• Business Ethics

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Executive Member of the Society for European Philosophy
• Member of the Philosophy of Management group
• Visiting Professor to the International University of Monaco
• Visiting Lecturer, Pembroke College, Cambridge University
• Visiting Lecturer, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University
• Reviewer Sage Publications
• Reviewer Journal of Business Ethics

• Applied Ethics
• Corporate Responsibility and Society
• Business Ethics
• Management & Leadership
• Informal Logic/Critical Thinking
• Philosophy of Religion
• Cross-Cultural Relations
• Creative Thinking