Current Research Projects
Here you can find details of research currently being undertaken by SCEWP staff:
Helen’s most recent book, Help! The Ethics of Rescue, defends an agent-neutral account of the duty to rescue. It explores the implications of this account for a number of key debates in the ethics of rescue, such as the duty to act on lesser-evil justifications for harming, the moral significance of property rights over harm-preventing resources, and the permissibility of forming agreements to save. She also considers its implications for applied aspects of the duty to rescue, including the ethics of abortion, the ethics of war, and duties to refugees. Help! is currently in press at Oxford University Press and should be published in early summer 2026.
Helen is now working primarily on ethical issues connected to deterrence. She is also writing on deception between intimate partners and the ethics of tourism connected to grave injustice.
Jonas is currently working on issues related to victim-blaming, including the ethics of advising people to take precautions and the implications of risk-taking for duties to rescue. Additionally, he is writing on criminogenic injustice and its implications for the state’s right to punish.
Fabio is primarily working on the effects causal indeterminacy for moral responsibility judgements. Including but not limited to individual and collective liability.