Zoë Johnson King

  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Expertise Summary

Expert in links between the environment, indigenous sovereignty, settler colonialism, technology, and mobility, primarily during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Expertise

  • Motivation
  • Conscience
  • Virtue
  • Heroism and heroes
  • Praise and blame
  • Ignorance; uncertainty
  • Burdens of proof
  • Moral development and moral education
  • Ethical reasoning

Additional Information

  • I’m currently writing a piece about concepts of virtue and heroism implicit in the rhetoric of calling essential workers “heroes”, and co-writing a piece about fairness in machine learning. Mentioning this as I know these are hot button issues.