Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Princeton University 2000
  • M.A., Princeton University 1997
  • B.A., Reed College 1994
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Core Faculty in the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2015 - 2016
  • Core Faculty in Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2014 - 2015
  • Assistant Professor in Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2010 - 2011
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Faculty Fellows. Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. 2004
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Hawkins, J., and E. J. Emanuel, eds. Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research. Princeton University Press, 2008.

  • Academic Articles

    • Hawkins, Jennifer. “Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 46, no. 6 (December 2021): 656–83. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhab028.
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    • Hawkins, J. “Why even a liberal can justify limited paternalistic intervention in anorexia nervosa.” Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 28, no. 2 (January 1, 2021): 155–58. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2021.0024.
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    • Hawkins, Jennifer. “Further Reflections: Surrogate Decisionmaking When Significant Mental Capacities are Retained.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics : Cq : The International Journal of Healthcare Ethics Committees 30, no. 1 (January 2021): 192–98. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963180120000699.
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    • Hawkins, J. “Diversity of meaning and the value of a concept: Comments on anna Alexandrova's a philosophy for the science of well-being.” Res Philosophica 96, no. 4 (January 1, 2019): 529–35. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.1802.
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    • Hawkins, Jennifer. “Barnes, Elizabeth. The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 160. $45.00 (cloth).” Ethics 128, no. 2 (January 2018): 462–67. https://doi.org/10.1086/694278.
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    • Hawkins, J. “Well-Being: What Matters Beyond the Mental?” Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics 4 (2015): 210–35.
    • Hawkins, J. “Well-Being, Time, and Dementia.” Ethics 124 (2014): 507–42.

  • Book Sections

    • Hawkins, J. “Artistic creativity and suffering.” In Creativity and Philosophy, 152–69, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351199797.
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    • Hawkins, J. “What’s Good for Them? Best Interests and Severe Disorders of Consciousness.” In Finding Consciousness: The Neuroscience, Ethics and Law of Severe Brain Damage, edited by W. Sinnott-Armstrong, 180–206. Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016.
    • Hawkins, J. “The Experience Machine and the Experience Requirement.” In The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Well-Being, edited by G. Fletcher, 355–65. New York: Routledge, 2016.
    • Hawkins, J. “Decision-Making Capacity and Value.” In Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections and New Perspectives, edited by D. Moseley, and G. Gala, 204–13. New York: Routledge, 2016.
    • Sinnott-Armstrong, W., and J. Summers. “Scrupulous Treatment (In preparation).” In Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections and New Perspectives, edited by D. Moseley and G. Gala. New York: Routledge, n.d.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • PHIL 217: Introduction to Ethical Theory 2022
  • PHIL 220: Philosophical Perspectives on Disability 2022
  • PHIL 335: Moral Psychology 2022
  • PHIL 791: Fall Grad Directed Reading, Spring Grad Directed Reading 2022
  • PHIL 217: Introduction to Ethical Theory 2021
  • PHIL 590S: Special Fields of Philosophy Seminar (Topics) 2021
  • PHIL 218: Medical Ethics 2020

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