1: Introducing epiphanies 2: If not moral theory then what? 3: Encounters with values 4: What is it like to be a human being? 5: Soul Food: experience, art, and psychic nutrition 6: Epiphanies and other people 7: Ethical experience and other peop 8: Religion, Relativism, and the New Republic

Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University. She was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Edinburgh University. She was Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2017-2020, a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at St Andrews 2017-2020, and Erskine Research Fellow, University of Canterbury, NZ, Spring 2020. Since 2021 she has been Executive Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly. She has also held visiting appointments in the Universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, British Columbia, Stirling, Reykjavik, and Oslo. She has published over 150 articles on ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, ancient philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Her books include Knowing What to Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics (OUP, 2014) and Values and Virtues (ed., OUP, 2007). She is the UK's first openly transgender philosophy academic, having transitioned in 2014, and campaigns actively on feminist and transgender issues.

A ground-breaking study of an under-explored topic central to ethics and the study of human experience Offers in-depth engagement with discussions of epiphanies in a wide variety of disciplines including theology, music, literature, poetry, history, and psychology Provides an alternative way in to ethical philosophy from the conventional 'theory-building' approach Explores epiphanies as a topic in ethics, moral psychology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion