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Kelly Cunningham

Graduate Student

Kelly is currently PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University who works primarily in ethics and bioethics, as well as American Pragmatism. She is particularly interested in the topics of trust, friendship, cooperation, and narrative.  At Vanderbilt, she currently serves as a co-chair for Vanderbilt's chapter of Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), as a coach for Vanderbilt's nationals qualifying APPE Ethics Bowl Team, as president of Open Book Collective—an organization for FGLI students, and as president of the Philosophy Student Government Association (PGSA). She is also a teaching affiliate at Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching. 

Specializations

Ethics, Bioethics 

 


Representative publications

Journal Articles

“‘Cooperation and Climates of Trust”

in Social Theory and Practice (forthcoming)

“‘As thin as a sheet of light’: Jane Addams on Narrative and End-of-Life Care”

Transactions of the Charles S. Pierce Society, Volume 59, No. 1, Winter 2023

Book Reviews

Review of Thomas W. Simpson’s Trust: A Philosophical Study . Oxford University Press, 2023.

Journal of Moral Philosophy (forthcoming)