Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Simone Gubler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Economy at Brown University. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Nevada, Reno. Originally trained as a lawyer in her home country of Australia, Simone received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Her philosophical work addresses questions at the intersection of moral psychology, normative ethics, political theory, and the philosophy of law. She has a particular interest in the relationship between morality and public institutions and the ways in which moral and economic thought intersect. She is currently working on a book project that offers novel philosophical justifications for New Deal policies like the minimum wage and limited working week. Another strand of her research deals with the concept of forgiveness. Against the prevailing view that forgiveness is a positive value, Simone urges a skeptical attitude.