Sigrún Svavarsdóttir is a contemporary analytic philosopher specializing in metaethics and moral psychology. She is best known for her work on moral motivation, the relationship between moral judgment and action, and debates between moral internalism and externalism. Her research examines whether moral beliefs necessarily motivate action and the grounds for reductive naturalist accounts of moral properties.
Developed influential arguments on the connection between moral cognition and motivation
Contributed to debates between Humean and anti-Humean theories of practical reason
Advanced reductive naturalist accounts of moral properties
Work on moral internalism and its critics in contemporary metaethics