Erin Beeghly is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies for the Philosophy Department at the University of Utah. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of ethics, social epistemology, feminist philosophy, and moral psychology.

Beeghly is the author of What's Wrong With Stereotyping? (OUP 2025) and coeditor of the first philosophical introduction to implicit bias: An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind (Routledge 2020). She writes and teaches about topics within discrimination theory, including discrimination law. While emphasizing the importance of history for our understanding of ethics, Beeghly's work also has implications for cutting-edge technologies involving artificial intelligence and machine learning.

She is currently at work on two new projects: Playing with Stereotypes, Playing with Fire: Why Stereotyping Can Be Good, a trade book that mixes memoir, history, and philosophical analysis, and Modeling Ethical Complexity, an academic book that argues philosophers must move past neat-and-tidy ethical theories that dominate our discipline and develop more complex, messy, and down-to-earth ways of practicing ethics.

Beeghly's research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, the National Humanities Center, the American Association for University Women, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at Berkeley.

Professor Beeghly received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2014, where she worked with Véronique Munoz-Dardé, R.Jay Wallace, and Victoria Plaut. Before that, she earned two BAs, one in History from UC Berkeley in 2004 and one in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University in 2006. Beeghly is also a trained gemologist and worked in the jewelry industry for over fifteen years, most of which she spent at Lang Antiques in San Francisco. She received her Graduate Gemologist diploma in residence from the Gemological Institute of America in 1998.