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Anna Dvorishchina is a PhD student in LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. She is supervised by Dr Jonathan Parry, Dr Lewis Ross and Nicola Lacey. Her thesis investigates how compassion normatively bears on blaming and punitive practices in criminal law, focusing at the intersection of ethics, criminal law theory and philosophy of emotions. She also teaches seminars across a range of courses in moral and legal philosophy and co-convene the Law, Ethics and Justice Group.
Before beginning her PhD, she received a BSc in Politics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics and an MA in Philosophy from King’s College London.
Research Interests
- Criminal law theory - especially blame, punishment and rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders
- Normative ethics - in particular, reasons, justifications and excuses
- Applied ethics - especially ethics of political protest, just war theory and ethics of psychiatry
- Philosophy of emotions, with a focus on the rationality of emotions and their role in moral judgement.