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Associate Professor (Ethics, Political & Feminist Philosophy)

I work on moral, political and feminist philosophy and the overlap between them. My work in ethics is mainly about impartiality. I am currently writing about the moral responsibilities people have in situations of political and social injustice.

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I work on moral, political and feminist philosophy and the overlap between them. My work in ethics is mainly about impartiality. I am currently writing about the moral responsibilities people have in situations of political and social injustice.

Present	Associate Professor (Ethics, Political & Feminist Philosophy), University of Massachusetts Boston
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Ethics and Political Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy

Articles (6)

Harmful Beneficence

Philosophy Faculty Publication Series (2013)

Beneficence can be significant to moral action but criteria for good beneficence is rarely discussed. Much work has focused on ...

Philosophy Faculty Publication Series (2010)

Susan Wolf's paper "Meaning and Morality" draws our attention to the fact that Williams's objection to Kantian morality is primarily ...

Citizen Responsibility for War in Imperfect Democracies

Philosophy Faculty Publication Series (2009)

Are individual citizens of imperfect democracies morally responsible for unjust wars waged by their state? Moral responsibility for unjust wars ...

Ethical Reasons and Political Commitments

Philosophy Faculty Publication Series (2009)

Political commitments to resist oppression play a central role in the moral lives of many people. Such commitments are also ...

Sacrifices, Aspirations and Morality: Williams Reconsidered

Philosophy Faculty Publication Series (2007)

When a person gives up an end of crucial importance to her in order to promote a moral aim, we ...

Possible Dilemmas Raised by Impossible Moral Requirements

Feminist Philosophy Quarterly

The priority that Tessman’s argument gives to phenomenological and neuropsychological explanations of moral requirements entails a fundamental shift in our ...