Political Theory Workshop - Lindsey Chambers

Lindsey Chambers is completing her PhD in Philosophy from UCLA, and is currently an interdisciplinary ethics postdoctoral fellow at Stanford.  She has research interests in normative ethics, bioethics, and political philosophy.  Her dissertation focuses on the ethics of shaping future persons through the use of reproductive selection.  She argues that procreators can wrong their progeny by failing to act well in the role of parent, even if their actions don’t harm the persons they create. The core of her argument—that role obligations capture an element of wrongdoing that is separate from harming—forms the basis for her current research on the ethics of enhancement.  She is particularly interested in the intersection between parental use of reproductive technology and education to confer advantage on their children.