Renee Jorgensen has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department, from Assistant Professor. She joined the University of Michigan in 2021 after being an Assistant Professor at Princeton. Renee recieved her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Southern California.
Professor Jorgensen 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 current book project 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 social and political philosophy of language, specifically slurs, epithets, and hate speech; the use of statistical information for racial profiling, statistical discrimination, predictive policing and sentencing; and just war theory.
Congratulations, Professor Jorgensen!
