Professor Jennifer Hawkins

Jennifer Hawkins, Ph.D. (Princeton University), is Associate Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Duke University and a core faculty member of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine. Her research interests in philosophy focus on well-being, happiness, theories of emotion and practical reason, and notions of self. Her interests in medical ethics are focused on disability, the care of patients with dementia, assessment of decision-making capacity, psychiatric illness, and the nature of suffering. She has published in Ethics, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Utilitas, The Hastings Center Report, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. She is co-editor with Ezekiel J. Emanuel of Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research (Princeton University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a book on well-being, for which work she was awarded a 2020-2021 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.