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Teresa Baron
Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
I currently teach Normative Ethics, Social Ethics, and Mind, Knowledge & Reality, and my research focuses primarily on reproductive ethics, medical ethics, and philosophy of parenthood. My most recent publication is The Artificial Womb on Trial, for the CUP series Cambridge Elements in Bioethics & Neuroethics. My first book, The Philosopher's Guide to Parenthood, was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press; my co-authored book Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility with Dr Christopher Cowley (UCD) came out with Bloomsbury in 2024. I am currently writing on the ethics of decision-making in extremely premature birth and in experimental ectogestation, and editing a new Handbook of Philosophy and the Family for Routledge.
I completed my PhD at the University of Southampton between 2017-2020, as a member of the Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy (BUMP) research group. I then worked at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague for two years as a postdoc in the Interdisciplinary Research Lab for Bioethics, during which time I also spent six months at the IWM in Vienna as a Jan Patočka junior visiting research fellow.
Recent Publications
TERESA BARON and CHRISTOPHER COWLEY, 2024. Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility Bloomsbury.
TERESA BARON, 2024. Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 33(1), 40-47 TERESA BARON, 2023. The Philosopher's Guide to Parenthood: Storks, Surrogates and Stereotypes Cambridge University Press.
TERESA BARON and CHRISTOPHER COWLEY, 2024. Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility Bloomsbury.
TERESA BARON, 2024. Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 33(1), 40-47 TERESA BARON, 2023. The Philosopher's Guide to Parenthood: Storks, Surrogates and Stereotypes Cambridge University Press.