Dr Karen Jones
PhD, Cornell University
Contact
E: jonek at unimelb.edu.au
T: 03 8344 0268
Rm 212, Old Quad
Profile
Karen joined the philosophy department at Melbourne University in 2002, after working at Cornell University and the ANU (RSSS). She has written extensively on trust, what it is and when it is justified. She also works on emotion and rationality. Much of her work is from a feminist perspective.
Teaching
- 161-108 Philosophical Issues
- 161-240 Chinese Philosophy
- 161-432 Moral Psychology
Selected publications
- “How to change the past.” 2008. In Catriona Mackenzie and Kim Atkins (eds) Practical Identity and Narrative Agency. Routledge.
- “Quick and Smart: Modularity and the Pro-Emotion Consensus.” The Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supp. 2007.
- “Trust and Terror,” in Margaret Walker and Peggy DesAutels (eds), Minds, Hearts, and Morality: Feminist Essays in Moral Psychology. Rowman and Littlefield, 2004: 3-18.
- “Emotional Rationality as Practical Rationality,” in Cheshire Calhoun (ed), Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 333-352.
- “Emotion, Weakness of the Will and the Normative Conception of Agency.” Philosophy, Supp Vol 52, 2003:181-200.
- “The Politics of Credibility,” in: Louise Antony and Charlotte Witt (eds.), A Mind of One’s Own, Second Edition; Boulder Co: Westview Press, 2002, 154-177. Selected for inclusion in The Philosopher’s Annual.
- “Second-Hand Moral Knowledge,” Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 96, No. 2 (1999): 55-78.
- “Trust as an Affective Attitude.” Ethics, Vol. 107, No. 1 (October, 1996): 4-25.