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.

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Web Page: https://duke.box.com/s/4r2q2yhipychbvktb1b8shdyxyu7j8ey

Education:
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000
M.A., Princeton University, 1997
B.A., Reed College, 1994

Research Interests:

RECENT PUBLICATIONS 

"Well-Being: What Matters Beyond the Mental?," Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics 4 (2015): 210-35 

"Well-Being, Time, and Dementia," Ethics 124 (2014): 507-42.

• PHIL 218.01, Medical ethics Synopsis

  Class Bldg 125, TuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

• PHIL 590S.02, Special fields seminar (top) Synopsis

  Crowell 107, F 10:20 AM-12:50 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

• Hawkins, J. "Explaining Emotional Pain with Affective Perspectives." Ill Being Philosophical Perspectives.  2025. 119-146. [doi]  [abs]
• Hawkins, J. "Affect, Values and Problems Assessing Decision-Making Capacity.." The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 24.8 (August, 2024): 71-82. [doi]  [abs]
• Hawkins, J. "Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine.." The Journal of medicine and philosophy 46.6 (December, 2021): 656-683. [doi]  [abs]
• Hawkins, J. "Why even a liberal can justify limited paternalistic intervention in anorexia nervosa." Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 28.2 (January, 2021): 155-158. [doi]
• Hawkins, J. "Further Reflections: Surrogate Decisionmaking When Significant Mental Capacities are Retained.." Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees 30.1 (January, 2021): 192-198. [doi]  [abs]