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​​I teach in the Philosophy Program at CUNY Graduate Center, where I’m Distinguished Professor. I came to New York from the UK in 2016, prior to which I had taught at the University of Sheffield, and before that at Birkbeck, University of London.
 
The two projects on which I am currently working are both in moral philosophy. The first, which I am finishing up, is Blaming and Forgiving: The Work of Morality (OUP); and the second, which is in early stages, is Bernard Williams: Philosopher of Ethical Freedom (Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy, Taiwan, 2021).
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My research generally falls in the subject areas of moral philosophy and social epistemology, though I hope that most of my work might equally be described as feminist philosophy, since feminist perspectives have always been at the heart of what I try to do in philosophy. When I was a student, it was specifically the feminist philosophical work that I read while doing an interdisciplinary MA in Women’s Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury (1989-90) that brought me back to graduate study in philosophy. I subsequently completed my DPhil at Oxford in 1996 having had the double good fortune of being co-supervised by Sabina Lovibond and Bernard Williams, both of whose work was for me then, and continues to be now, a guiding light for which I am ever more grateful as the years go by. An interest in the significance of social identity and power in all kinds of human practices continues to drive my work, and it tends to lead me to the border territories that lie between epistemology, ethics, and politics.