The Journal of Coaching Ethics (JoCE) is an open-access international peer-reviewed journal is committed to fostering ethical discourse within coaching practice, supervision, research and the coaching profession more broadly. The JoCE is also interested in the development of coaching theory, ethical theory and philosophy and how it applies to coaching practice. Learn more >>
Alex Carter
Alex Carter is Associate Professor for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Cambridge where he has designed and delivered courses in philosophy, ethics and creativity theory for over a decade. At the University's Institute of Professional and Continuing Education, Alex helped launch the MSt in Coaching and teaches philosophy of coaching and philosophy as therapy. Alex is also a Fellow and College Lecturer at Fitzwilliam College, where he provides study skills support to students in all disciplines and at all academic levels. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Alex’s research interests include Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, the theology of Simone Weil and the philosophy of humour. Alex is currently researching the (im)possibility of creative AI. He is an active speaker on topics ranging from educational policy, psychological safety and the use and abuse of AI.
Alex won the University’s Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2025. His teaching philosophy was developed at the University of Essex where the principal aim is to get students to feel the "pain of the problem", i.e. to make plain the very real ways in which philosophical problems affect our lives. Accordingly, he is keen to support any philosophical project that has the potential to inform contemporary debates and bring about change.
