Rachel Fredericks

Rachel Fredericks is an independent scholar and activist living in Chicago, where she is involved in both mutual aid efforts to cultivate food sovereignty and collaborative attempts to mitigate the climate crisis. Previously, she was an assistant professor of philosophy, after earning degrees from Reed College and the University of Washington. Most of her research has been about moral responsibility for and evaluation of things other than actions (including attitudes, desires, character traits, and concepts). Concerns about social justice, fascination with living beings, and engagement with empirical literature are themes connecting her disparate works. More recently, her attention has been directed to animal ethics where it intersects with climate ethics, food ethics, and the ethics of caregiving for human children.