Arthur Krieger, PhD

I am an award-winning bioethics researcher and humanities instructor. I graduated from Temple University with my PhD in Philosophy in Spring 2026. I am currently employed as the Medical Ethics Education Specialist in the Department of Medical Ethics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

My areas of specialization are bioethics and philosophy of psychiatry. Much of my research aims to clarify the nature of addiction by combining philosophical resources with insights from neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and testimony from people with lived experience. I am one of the few philosophers currently arguing that addiction is a compulsion, in the sense that it often makes us incapable of doing otherwise. Building on my descriptive work, I also research various ethical dimensions of addiction, including moral responsibility for addictive behavior, the ethics of prescribing habit-forming drugs, and the ethics of public health approaches to addiction. I have broader research interests in healthcare ethics and philosophy of medicine.

Teaching is a source of pride and fulfillment for me. I have a record of excellence in teaching bioethics, normative ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of art, ancient philosophy, and modern philosophy.

In my free time, I love to boulder, rollerblade, and ballroom dance with my wonderful wife.