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Molly Gardner

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2008
Political Philosophy and EthicsFree Will and AgencyHemispheric Asymmetry in NeurosciencePrimate Behavior and EcologyChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Publications

37

Citations

646

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

19

Publishing since 2008

Research summary
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Molly Gardner works in moral philosophy, focusing on questions about harm, death, personal identity, and the ethics of how our actions affect future people and animals. Her writing includes both original philosophical arguments and critical reviews of other philosophers' work on related topics like posthumous harm and the trolley problem.

Ethics of harm and deathPersonal identity over timeNon-identity problem and future generationsAnimal ethics and wild animal sufferingDeontological moral theory

Publication output has been fairly steady but modest over the last decade, generally producing one to three works per year without a strong upward or downward trend.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
2017: 3 publications3172018: 3 publications3182019: 1 publication192020: 3 publications3202021: 2 publications212022: 3 publications3222023: 1 publication232024: 1 publication24252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Oxford University Press eBooks×3
  • Ethics×2
  • Journal of Family Psychology×1
  • Ethical Theory and Moral Practice×1
  • Philosophical Studies×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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