Lucia Schwarz
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Economy
Center for Ethics
Undergraduate Program in Political Economy
Phone
504.865.5305
Office Address
438 Newcomb Hall
Biography
Lucia Schwarz is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department and The Murphy Institute. Previously, she was a Teaching Assistant with the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at UNC Chapel Hill. She is also co-director of the PPE Society's Working Group on the Ethical Limits of Academic Inquiry (ELAI). Dr. Schwarz specializes in ethics. Among other things, she is interested in the ethics of consumer choice and society's treatment of non-human animals.
Publications
- "The Inefficacy Objection and New Ethical Veganism" Journal of Social Philosophy (online first)
- "The Paradox of Rape in Horror Movies" British Journal of Aesthetics (2022)
- "Species Egalitarianism and Respect for Nature: Of Mice and Carrots" in Oliver Sensen and Richard Dean (eds.), Respect: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press (2021)
- "Error Theory and Abolitionist Ethics," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 58 (2020): 431-55
Education & Affiliations
- Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Arizona (2021)
- B.A., Political Science, University of Regensburg (2012)
