Advisor: George Sher

Dallas Havens is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University. His research focuses primarily on ethics and moral psychology, especially on how interpersonal relationships and shared social practices should shape our responses to wrongdoing and, more broadly, what we owe one another. His dissertation argues that the fairness of our responses to wrongdoing is grounded less in facts about wrongdoers alone and more in the demands and vulnerabilities created by shared forms of social cooperation. He also works on topics in applied ethics and political philosophy.