Overview
Jennifer Hawkins, Ph.D. (Princeton University), is Associate Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy Duke University. She splits her research time (and her teaching) between general normative theory and applied ethics. Her research interests include theories of well-being, theories of emotion and practical reason, moral psychology, and personal identity. Her interests in applied ethics include philosophy of disability, the care of patients with dementia, assessment of decision-making capacity, psychiatric illness, and the nature of suffering. She has published in (among others) Ethics, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Utilitas, The Journal of Philosophy and Medicine, The American Journal of Bioethics, and The Hastings Center Report. Her book, Faring Well: An Account of Well-Being is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.