Stephanie Patridge
Stephanie Patridge joined the faculty at the College of Law in January 2025. She is a philosopher who works on normative issues in the law, culture, and everyday social interactions. She teaches classes in the UI Center for Human Rights.
Prior to coming to the College, she was Chair of the Department of Philosophy and a Coordinator-Liaison to the Arts and Humanities at Otterbein University, where she is an Emerita Professor of Philosophy.
She is currently writing a manuscript on social status and snobbery, and has research projects on expressive content in the law, Aristotle’s virtue of eutrapelia (wit), and games and social normativity. She has published articles on a range of topics, including racist and sexist jokes, social status and snobbery, race and gender in video games, and pornography. She is the co-editor of Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts (2018, Routledge).
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