Lee-Ann Chae

Welcome.  I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. I work in ethics and in social and political philosophy, and focus on the question of whether it's possible for us to live together without war and large-scale violence. My work challenges the view that violence is a necessary response to aggression, and considers how issues of trust, hope, and solidarity operate in a non-ideal world to orient us towards a future peace.

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I am interested in understanding how we might resist the moral allure of violence by examining:

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     how the risk of others' moral failures ought to figure in our moral deliberations about   

     what to do,

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     what role solidarity plays in moving us towards justice, and

    

     whether war can be relied upon to secure or promote women's rights.

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I completed my Ph.D. in Philosophy at UCLA, under the supervision of A.J. Julius, and earned my J.D. from the University of Southern California School of Law. From 2016-2018, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania.

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I also run a conference and lecture series, Challenging War, that brings together philosophers, political theorists, and others working on questions of war and peace.