Erin Kelly grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, seemingly destined for medical or law school, and riding horses or being kicked by them. She earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy from Stanford University; in further pursuit of philosophy, she then went to Columbia University for graduate study before moving to Harvard University, where she earned her PhD. Her research interests are in moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of law, with a focus on questions about justice, the nature of moral reasons, moral responsibility and desert, and theories of punishment. She has a non-academic interest in music, film, the outdoors, and two young children.

erin.kelly@tufts.edu
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Publications

“Human Rights as Foreign Policy Imperatives,” in Ethics of Assistance, ed. Deen Chatterjee, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

“Against Naturalism in Ethics,” in Naturalism in Question, eds. Mario De Caro and David MacArthur, Harvard University Press, 2004.

“The Burdens of Collective Liability,” in Ethics and Foreign Intervention, eds. Deen Chatterjee and Don Scheid, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

“Doing without Desert,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83 (2002): 180-205.

“Moral Agency and Free Choice: Clarke’s Unlikely Success Against Hume,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 84 (2002): 297-318.

“Justice and Communitarian Identity Politics,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 35, no. 1 (March 2001): 71-93.

“On Tolerating the Unreasonable,” written with Lionel McPherson, The Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 1 (March 2001): 38-55.
    Reprinted in John Rawls: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers, ed. Chandran Kukathas, forthcoming from Routledge Press.

“Habermas on Moral Justification,” Social Theory and Practice, vol. 26, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 223-249.

“Personal Concern,” The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 1 (March 2000): 115-136.

“Stability and Justification in Hume’s Moral Philosophy: A Response to Louis Loeb,” Hume Studies, forthcoming.

Editor of John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Book review of John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Revised Edition. The Philosophical Review, vol. 110, no. 3 (July 2001): 421-425.

Book review of Philip Pettit, Republicanism. The Philosophical Review, vol. 108, no.1 (January 1999): 90-93.

Book Review of Hans Oberdiek, Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance. The Philosophical Review, forthcoming.