My academic interests are in ethics and feminist philosophy. My research focuses on self-respect, seeking to understand what it is, why it matters morally whether and how we respect ourselves, and what the connections are between self-respect and respect for and from other people. I am currently working on a book on arrogance and self-respect, having published several papers and encyclopedia articles on the subject. I work in the intersection of virtue ethics, moral psychology, political philosophy, and feminist ethics, and look to Kant and Aristotle for insight and inspiration. I regularly teach a first-year seminar on self-respect, as well as various courses in ethics (ethical theory, contemporary ethics, global ethics) and in social and political philosophy. In addition, I teach a course on feminist theory and one on the philosophy of sex and gender, which are cross-listed with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, with which I has been involved for many years, including seven as Program Director. After serving as Philosophy Department Chairperson for 6 years, I was appointed in 2017 as the inaugural director of the Lehigh University Center for Ethics, which is launching in spring 2018. Beyond Lehigh, I recently stepped down after 6 years as the President of the international Society for Analytical Feminism.
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Robin S. Dillon, Ph.D.
William Wilson Selfridge Professor of Philosophy
Ethics; Feminist Philosophy; Kant
610-758-3776
Recent Publications
Book
- Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card, ed. Robin S. Dillon and Armen Marsoobian (Blackwell, 2018)
Journal issue
- "Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card", ed. Robin S. Dillon and Armen Marsoobian; special issue of Metaphilosophy, October 2016.
Recent Articles
- “Self-Respect, Arrogance, and Power: A Feminist Perspective,” (forthcoming) Respect for Persons, ed. Richard Dean and Oliver Sensen (Oxford University Press)
- “Feminist Approaches to Virtue Ethics,” (2018) Oxford Handbook of Virtue, ed. Nancy Snow (Oxford University Press)
- “Feminist Virtue Ethics,” (2017), in Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Ann Garry, Serene Khader and Alison Stone (Routledge)
- “Self-Respect and Humility in Kant and Hill,” (2015) in Reason, Value, and Respect: Kantian Themes from the Philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr., ed. Mark Timmons and Robert Johnson (Oxford University Press), pp. 42-69.
- “Arrogance,” (2013) International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Wiley-Blackwell), print and online
- “Self-Respect and Self-Esteem,” (2013) International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Wiley Blackwell), print and online
- “Critical Character Theory: Toward a Feminist Theory of ‘Vice’” in Out From the Shadow, ed. Sharon Crasnow and Anita Superson (Oxford University Press, 2012)