Hello and welcome.
I am a graduate student in philosophy in the U.S. I have an undergraduate degree in philosophy and pre-law.
I am mostly interested in ethics, broadly construed.
Recently, my active projects have been concerned with virtue ethics, moral psychology and “situationist” social psychology, individual feminist political theory and feminist ethics.
I have also developed strong interests in various ethical and political aspects of early to middle childhood education. Particularly, I worry alot about the practice of “character” and “citizenship” education in U.S. public schools. I have come to support alternatives to conventional public school education, from school choice measures like tuition vouchers (fairly popular) to unschooling in the style proposed by educational theorist John Holt (rather radical).
Politically, I value individual liberties above all. I endorse sane, market-based solutions to public policy problems, and disapprove of big government, paternalism, interest group politics and the resultant prodigality, etc etc.
I have 2 rescued chihuahua mixes and, as of recently, a wonderful husband. My main non-academic interest is learning to cook quick, healthy, natural/organic and mostly vegetarian meals.
Thanks for reading,
pjsw
