Anna Dvorishchina

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics supervised by Dr Jonathan Parry, Dr Lewis Ross and Prof Nicola Lacey.

My thesis develops a novel justification for the state's duty to rehabilitate offenders by investigating the normative link between our emotional responses and things we ought to do. Specifically, I argue that the same considerations that render an offender worthy of compassion generate their right to rehabilitation, such that a duty to rehabilitate is owed to them by the state.

I am also interested in ethics of self-defence and protest, justifications for criminal punishment, and ethics of psychiatry. For details, see Research.

In addition, I teach seminars across a range of courses in moral and legal philosophy at the London School of Economics. I am also a co-founder and co-organiser of the Law, Ethics and Justice Group. More in Teaching and Events.

Before beginning my PhD, I received an MA in Philosophy from King's College London where I wrote my thesis defending an account of standing to blame. Before that, I completed my BSc in Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics with a dissertation on justifications for criminalisation.