Professor Paul Formosa is the Research Training Director in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. Paul belongs to the Discpline of Philosophy, and he was previously the Head of the Department of Philosophy, founding co-Director of the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre, and past Director for the Centre for Agency, Valeus and Ethics (CAVE). Paul has also been an elected member of the University Senate and the Faculty of Arts Faculty Board and previously served as Department PhD and MRes Director.  Paul has been a Macquarie University Research Fellow, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, and Chief Investigator on three ARC Discovery Projects as well as on various industry funded research.

Paul has published widely on topics in moral and political philosophy, including on Kantian ethics, moral evil, moral psychology, human dignity and autonomy, and the philosophy of technology with a particular focus on the ethics and politics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), social media, and video games. Paul has produced almost 100 research outputs, and his work has received over 2000 citations.

Paul can supervise students across a range of topics in moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of technology. While he mainly supervises students in philosophy, Paul has also co-supervised students in computing. He is open to taking on new students and he has supervised both theoretical and empirical projects.

Paul has taught the following units: PHIL3057 Theories of Justice; PHIL705 Foundations of Research in Ethics; PHL1032 Philosophy, Morality and Society; PHIL383/PHL354 Philosophy Capstone Unit; PHL3082 Agency and the Self; PHIL706 Research Topics in Ethics; PHIL2020 Philosophy, Technology and the Future of Humanity; and FOAR7002 Research Frontier; PHIL2026 The Ethics and Moral Psychology of Good and Evil