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Dr. DesAutels specializes in ethical theory and moral psychology. She began teaching at the University of Dayton in 2001. Prior to coming to the University of Dayton, she served as assistant director to the Ethics Center and assistant professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida.

Research interests

• Ethical theory
• Moral psychology
• Feminist ethics

Selected publications

Books

2007. Global Feminist Ethics, editor with Rebecca Whisnant, Rowman and Littlefield.
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2004. Moral Psychology, editor with Margaret Urban Walker, Rowman and Littlefield.
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2001. Feminists Doing Ethics, editor with Joanne Waugh, Rowman and Littlefield.
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1999. Praying for a Cure: When Medical and Religious Practices Conflict, with Margaret P. Battin and Larry May, Rowman and Littlefield.
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Journal Articles

"Moral Perception and Responsiveness," Journal of Social Philosophy 43.3, Sept 2012.

"Is the Climate any Warmer for Women in Philosophy?" APA Newsletter for Feminism and Philosophy, 11.1, Sept, 2011, pp. 4-7.
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"Sex Differences and Neuroethics," Philosophical Psychology 23, 2010, pp. 95-111.
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"Musings: Folk Feminist Theory: An Experimental Approach," Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy 23.4, Oct-Dec issue, 2008.
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"Psychologies of Moral Perceivers," Midwest Studies in Philosophy 22, 1998, pp. 266-279.

"Christian Science, Rational Choice, and Alternative World Views," Journal of Social Philosophy 26, 1995 (with responses from Margaret Battin and Joan Callahan), pp. 89-122 .

"Two Types of Theories: The Impact on Churchland’s ‘Perceptual Plasticity’," Philosophical Psychology 8, 1995, pp. 25-33.

Book Chapters

"Resisting Organizational Power" in Lisa Tessman, ed., Feminist Ethics and Social Political Theory: Theorizing the Non-Ideal (Springer, 2009) pp. 223-226.

"Moral Mindfulness," in Peggy DesAutels and Margaret Urban Walker, eds., Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) pp. 69-81.

"Religious Women, Medical Settings, and Moral Risk," in Margaret Walker, ed., Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).

"Christian Science, Rational Choice, and Alternative World Views," in Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson, eds., Meaning and Medicine: A Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care (Routledge, 1999) pp. 321-331.

"Gestalt Shifts in Moral Perception," in Larry May, Marilyn Friedman, and Andy Clark, eds., Mind and Morals (Bradford/MIT Press, 1996) pp. 129-143.