Rewriting Rights

Offering an essentially social reformulation of the problem of 'normative opacity' within moral philosophy, Rewriting Rights constructs and defends a new co-operative standard for navigating uncertainty about rights-changes that seeks to avoid compounding gendered and racialised biases.

Renée Jørgensen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to joining Michigan, she held a faculty position in the Center for Human Values and the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and she was a postdoctoral scholar at Australian National University. Jørgensen has also held visiting positions at Harvard University's Safra Center for Ethics and Australian Catholic University's Dianoia Institute of Philosophy. She completed her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Her work is situated in contemporary political, social, and legal philosophy.