Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He works primarily on topics in epistemology and issues connected to rape culture and sexual violence. He is the author of Contextualising Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is currently working on a research project on Rape Culture and Epistemology, funded by a Canadian SSHRC Insight Grant.

Allison M. McCarthy, PhD, is the Junior Clinical Ethics Fellow with the UCLA Health Ethics Center. Her doctoral dissertation addressed the “physician-patient partnership” and its compatibility with the commitment to respect for patient self-determination. Currently, her research explores non-domination as a value in medical decision-making, the practical significance of faultless disagreement between providers and patients in shared decision-making, and approaches to supported decision-making for patients with cognitive disabilities.

Javiera M. Perez Gomez, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her main research interests are in applied ethics and bioethics. Much of her current work focuses on analyzing policies or practices that seem to compound the disadvantages that members of marginalized groups already face.

Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, where he teaches nursing ethics to advanced students. He earned his PhD from The Ohio State University in 2013, and he had several postdocs along with various teaching jobs along the way. He has numerous publications in philosophy of science and value theory. He has also been diagnosed as level one autistic, and so he takes extreme personal interest in the topic addressed in his contribution to this issue.