Peggy DesAutels is a contemporary American philosopher specializing in feminist ethics, moral psychology, and the epistemology of moral perception. She has contributed to debates on moral agency, moral responsibility, and the limits of imaginative empathy across social difference. Her work challenges assumptions about moral understanding that ignore structural inequalities in lived experience.
Developed accounts of moral perception attentive to gender and social positioning
Contributed to feminist moral psychology, examining how identity shapes moral reasoning
Co-edited 'Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory' (2004)
Argued for limits of cross-gender empathic imagination in contexts of gendered violence
Engaged critiques of mainstream moral psychology from a feminist standpoint