Erin Beeghly is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Utah.  Her  primary research interests lie at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, legal philosophy, and moral psychology. 

Her current book project, What's Wrong With Stereotyping? (under contract with OUP), examines the conditions under which judging people by group membership is wrong.  She also writes and teaches about topics within legal theory, including discrimination law. 

In 2016-2017, she was the Philip L. Quinn fellow at the National Humanities Center.  Her work has also been supported by the American Association for University of Women and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at Berkeley. In 2019, she will take up a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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.
During 2016-17, she organized a series of interdisciplinary conferences around the topic of "bias in context" with Professors Jules Holroyd at the University of Sheffield and Alex Madva at Cal Poly, Pomona. The final conference was held at the University of Utah on October 26-27, 2017.  Please see the conference website for details. Scholarly research from the conference will be featured in a special issue of The Journal of Applied Philosophy.