Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows
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Elizabeth Ashford
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting FellowElizabeth Ashford is lecturer in philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and works in moral and political philosophy. Published articles in these areas include “Utilitarianism, Integrity and Partiality” (Journal of Philosophy, 2000), “The Demandingness of Scanlon’s Contractualism" (Ethics, 2003), and “The Alleged Dichotomy between Positive and Negative Rights and Duties” (Global Basic Rights, eds Charles Beitz and Robert Goodin, Oxford University Press, 2009). While at Princeton she will be writing a book Violations of the Human Right to Subsistence.
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Sonali Chakravarti
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting FellowSonali Chakravarti is assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University. She is completing a manuscript on anger, testimony and justice after mass violence. Her work on transitional justice and the emotions has appeared in Constellations and is forthcoming in Theory and Event. While at Princeton she will investigate the impact of universal participation on trust and citizenship in the post-genocide gacaca courts in Rwanda.
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Dallas G. Denery II
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting FellowDallas G. Denery II is associate professor of history at Bowdoin College and specializes in Medieval and Early Modern European religious and intellectual history. He is the author of Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and co-editor of Uncertain Knowledge in the Middle Ages (forthcoming). While at Princeton, he hopes to complete his second book, Liars: Deception, the Individual and the Origins of Modernity, which examines the history of lying from the Garden of Eden until the end of the seventeenth century.
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Kimberly Ferzan
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting FellowKimberly Kessler Ferzan is professor of law at Rutgers University, School of Law – Camden and associate graduate faculty at the Rutgers philosophy department in New Brunswick. She works in criminal law theory, and her publications include Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (with Larry Alexander and Stephen Morse). While at Princeton she will be working on the book From Defense to Detention: A Theory of Liability to Preventive Force.
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Chris Heathwood
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting FellowChris Heathwood is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder and works mainly in theoretical ethics. He has published articles in Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and elsewhere on desire theories of welfare, the nature of pleasure, various topics in metaethics, and other topics. While at Princeton he will be writing a book on desire theories of welfare.
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Bennett Helm
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting FellowBennett Helm is professor of philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College and works in moral psychology, autonomy, and philosophy of mind, emphasizing the role emotions play in each of these domains. He is the author of Emotional Reason: Deliberation, Motivation, and the Nature of Value (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Love, Friendship, and the Self: Intimacy, Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons (Oxford University Press, 2009). While at Princeton he plans to write a book, Defining Moral Communities: Respect, Dignity, and the Reactive Attitudes.
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Michael Otsuka
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting FellowMichael Otsuka is professor of philosophy at University College London. His publications include Libertarianism without Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2003), “Saving Lives, Moral Theory, and the Claims of Individuals” (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2006), “Incompatibilism and the Avoidability of Blame” (Ethics, 1998), and “Killing the Innocent in Self-Defense” (Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1994). While at Princeton he will be writing papers related to the themes of a project entitled “Self and Other, Now and Later: the Unity of the Person, the Claims of Others, and the Significance of Risky Prospects versus Actual Outcomes."
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Henry S. Richardson
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting FellowHenry S. Richardson is professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and is the editor of Ethics. His work has centered on practical reasoning—individual (Practical Reasoning about Final Ends, 1994), political (Democratic Autonomy, 2002), and now, in the book he will be working on in Princeton, Articulating the Moral Community, moral. He has also worked on medical research ethics, and is the author of Moral Entanglements: Medical Researchers’ Ancillary-Care Obligations (forthcoming, 2012).
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Alex Voorhoeve
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting FellowAlex Voorhoeve is reader in philosophy at LSE. He works on distributive ethics, rational choice theory, and moral psychology, and his publications include "Why It Matters that Some Are Worse Off than Others" (with Michael Otsuka, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 2009), "Egalitarianism and the Separateness of Persons" (with Marc Fleurbaey, Utilitas, 2012), and "Decide as You Would with Full Information! An Argument against ex ante Pareto" (with Marc Fleurbaey, forthcoming in Health Inequality: Ethics and Measurement). While at Princeton, he aims to work with Michael Otsuka and Marc Fleurbaey on developing an egalitarian view of distributive ethics which can deal appropriately with risky cases and non-identity cases. He also aims to advance his experimental work on when we can trust our intuitions in distributive cases.