Joan Woolfrey

Joan Woolfrey
  • Professor
  • Department: Philosophy
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: JWoolfrey@wcupa.edu

Education

  • B.S., North Dakota State University
  • M.A., New School for Social Research
  • Ph.D., University of Oregon

Research Interests

Ethical TheoryBioethicsEnvironmental EthicsFeminist Thoughtenvironmental ethics

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Biography

Currently interim chair of the Women's & Gender Studies Department, her most recent scholarship centers around feminist virtue ethics, and her current research project involves the concept of contempt and whether it has any moral value.

List of Publications

  • "The Virtue of Ambivalence to Maternity." In Maternal Tug, eds. Tanya Cassidy, Susan Hogan and Sarah LaChance Adams. Toronto, ON, Canada: Demeter Press, 2019. "The Primacy of Hope." Social Philosophy Today, ed. Jeffrey Gauthier, Vol. 32, Summer 2016. "The Infectiousness of Hope." Journal for Philosophy in the Contemporary World 22(2), 94-103, 2015.

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