Stephanie Van Fossen is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. She recently completed her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Her research in ethics focuses on theory development, especially moral theories that understand wrongdoing as wronging particular people rather than wronging “someone or other.” Among her interests, she is currently refining and extending her dissertation work on contractualism, and co-authoring a paper that addresses recent objections to contractualist moral theory. Beyond this, she is exploring puzzles about ethics and time—such as how our feelings and beliefs shift when harms or benefits occur in the distant past or future—as well as questions in applied ethics, including the moral foundations of reparations.

More about her work can be found on her website stephvanfossen.com.