Glen Pettigrove

Research Fellow

Bio: Glen Pettigrove is the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Forgiveness and Love (Oxford University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Neglected Virtues (Routledge, 2022) and The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness (Routledge, 2023). During his time at the Center, Glen will be investigating sweetness. Use of the metaphor to describe something important about God’s character, words, and actions is as old as the Hebrew psalms. And by the 18th century, sweetness and bitterness were widely used to pick out distinct qualities of character. Glen’s project will explore the nature of sweetness and the flavour it gives to our understanding of divine and human love.