Peter Goldie is a British philosopher working mainly on ethics and aesthetics. He is currently the Samuel Hall Chair in Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Discipline Areaof the School of Social Sciences at University of Manchester.

After a 25-year career in the City of London, Goldie turned to Philosophy, in 1990. He studied at University College London and Oxford, where he got his DPhil, supervised by Bernard Williams. His thesis was on emotion, mood and character. Following this, he was a lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford, for two years. He then moved to King's College London, where he was a lecturer and later a reader, before becoming a professor at Manchester in 2005.

Books

• The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000
• Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals (as editor), Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002
• On Personality, London, Routledge, 2004
• Philosophy and Conceptual Art (as co-editor with Elisabeth Schellekens), Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.