ERIN BEEGHLY

Professor Beeghly's research interests lie at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, feminist philosophy, and moral psychology. She is the author of What's Wrong With Stereotyping? (Oxford 2025) and coeditor, with Alex Madva, of Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social MInd (Routledge 2020). She also writes and teaches about topics within discrimination theory, including discrimination law. Beeghly's research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, IASH at the University of Edinburgh, the American Association for University Women, and the Townsend Center for Humanities at Berkeley.

Beeghly is currently at work on two projects. The first, Playing with Stereotypes, is a trade book that explores subversive and liberating uses of stereotypes. Weaving together philosophy, history, and memoir, the book will analyze how activists, artists, and everyday people have played with, and used, stereotypes for the purposes of pleasure, empowerment, and social protest. Far from always being unjust or wrong, Beeghly argues that stereotyping is a morally complex phenomenon, manifesting in humor, our deepest existential impulses, and powerful acts of resistance. The second project, Modeling Ethical Complexity, is an academic book that argues philosophers must move past the neat-and-tidy ethical theories that dominate our discipline and develop more complex, messy, and down-to-earth ways of practicing ethics.