Rosalind Chaplin

Rosalind Chaplin is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, affiliated with the Department of Philosophy. She holds a PhD from UC San Diego (2021) and an MA from Simon Fraser University (2015). Prior to UNC, she was a Bersoff Fellow at NYU and a visiting researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Her research spans Kantian philosophy, early modern metaphysics, and contemporary ethics/moral psychology. In historical work, she examines Kant’s critiques of traditional metaphysics, idealism, and concepts of the infinite/indeterminate. In applied ethics, she investigates moral emotions, reactive attitudes, and how close personal relationships shape moral responsibility frameworks. Her Chapel Hill Kant Workshop fosters interdisciplinary dialogue on Kantian thought.

Her publications explore themes like third-party emotional responses (e.g., forgiveness/shame), envy in virtue ethics, and Kant’s treatment of space/time. She has received recognition including the SWIP-NYC Graduate Student Essay Prize (Co-Winner).

Chaplin’s teaching emphasizes bridging historical philosophy with contemporary ethical questions. Current research directions include expanding analysis of partiality in moral emotions and revisiting Kant’s mathematical antinomies through modern philosophical lenses.