Linda Eggert

Linda Eggert is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy. 

Most of her work is in ethics, and spans topics in moral and political philosophy as well as the philosophy of law. Eggert is especially interested in the ethics of rescue and other-defence, the thrills and challenges of non-consequentialist ethics, theories of justice, and – increasingly inescapably – how debates about AI might throw new light on longstanding questions about rights, reasons, and agency. Much of Eggert’s works falls in areas where these fields overlap. Papers have explored, for example, how it can be wrong to do some good when it would have been permissible to do no good at all; how the moral requirement to minimize harm works in contexts in which people do not act alone; whether the laws of war should prohibit acts of killing that are morally impermissible; whether the prospect of compensation affects whether a harm is proportionate; and whether the considerations that determine the ethics of permissible harming for human agents extend to AI in autonomous vehicles and autonomous weapon systems. Click here to learn more about Eggert’s work.

Eggert joined Stanford from the University of Oxford, where she was an Early Career Fellow. Eggert has also held fellowships at the McCoy Center for Ethics in Society, the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Technology and Human Rights Fellow. Eggert is a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow and has twice won the American Philosophical Association’s Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize. Her PhD (DPhil) is from the University of Oxford.