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Epistemic CoercionEthics 131 (3): 489-510. 2021.
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Caring animals and care ethicsBiology and Philosophy 37. 2022.Are there nonhuman animals who behave morally? In this paper I answer this question in the affirmative by applying the framework of care ethics to the animal morality debate. According to care ethics, empathic care is the wellspring of morality in humans. While there have been several suggestive analyses of nonhuman animals as empathic, much of the literature within the animal morality debate has marginalized analyses from the perspective of care ethics. In this paper I examine care ethics to ex…Read more
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Reimagining Sympathy, Recognizing Difference: Insights From Adam SmithRowman & Littlefield International. 2019.
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Empathy and Emotion RegulationPhilosophical Topics 47 (2): 149-163. 2019.In this paper, I evaluate one of the most prominent accounts of how emotion regulation features in empathy. According to this account, by Nancy Eisenberg and colleagues, empathy develops into either personal distress or sympathy depending on the ability to regulate one’s empathic distress. I argue that recent evidence suggests that empathic distress and sympathy co-occur throughout the empathic episode, that a certain degree of empathic distress may be necessary for prosocial motivation, as high…Read more
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University of CopenhagenLecturer (Part-time)
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University of VirginiaResearch Associate (Part-time)
Copenhagen, Denmark