Henry Krahn

I am a philosopher working in moral and political philosophy. Starting this fall, I will be an interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University, in partnership with EdEthics. Previously, I held postdoctoral fellowships at NYU and Goethe University Frankfurt. I defended my PhD at the University of Toronto in the Department of Philosophy in May 2024.

I am currently working on two related projects. The first, continuing my doctoral research, develops a novel account of political protest. We often speak of protest as an attempt to hold those in power to account, and I argue that taking this idea seriously offers substantial conceptual resources for thinking about the nature and justification of protest. I have several published and in-progress papers on civil disobedience, protest, and moral accountability.

My second project examines the link between social movements and moral change. There is now a considerable philosophical literature that examines the nature and causes of moral progress and regress. I am interested in the metaethical foundations of this literature, and in how best to understand the nature of the moral change created by social movements.

You can contact me at h.krahn.phil@gmail.com

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