Associate Professor; Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
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Renée Jørgensen focuses on the relationship between agents’ moral and civil rights and their society’s informal social norms and conventions, especially as they relate to managing risk. Her book, Rewriting Rights (Oxford University Press, 2025), explores how social norms shape agents’ moral rights and demands on each other, and can be leveraged to give content to the notion of ‘reasonable mistakes’ in consent and self-defense. She also has ongoing research projects in the the ethics of belief, social and political philosophy of AI, and the use of statistical information for racial profiling, statistical discrimination, predictive policing, and sentencing.
She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Her work has appeared in Philosophy and Public Affairs, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Nous, and Analysis, among other journals.
