Peter Wicks

Educated at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Dr. Wicks came to the United States as Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Graduate School before pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of Notre Dame. After returning to Princeton as a postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Wicks taught in the Ethics Program at Villanova University before joining the Elm Institute in 2015. His research focuses on the contemporary applications of Aristotelian ethical and political thought, the history and philosophy of higher education, and the psychology and ethics of argument and persuasion. Along with Kelvin Knight he is the co-editor of Alasdair MacIntyre on Practical Philosophy: Essential Works (forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press in March 2026). He is executive secretary of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry, a faculty affiliate of the Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics, and a fellow of Davenport College.

In addition to leading many of the Institute’s seminars and discussion groups, Dr. Wicks regularly teaches a course on the psychology and ethics of persuasion in Yale College.

E-mail: peter.wicks@elminstitute.org