Christopher Lewis

I work on normative questions that arise in the context of social and economic inequality. Some of my work is about what limits we should set on the way information about criminal offenders' projected risk of reoffending, history of recidivism, and subjective experience of incarceration, is used to determine their punishment. Another project examines the normative principles administrative agencies should use to guide demographic data collection, and what those principles tell us about the kinds of racial and ethnic categories that should be included on government surveys. I have ongoing interests in the ethics of parenting -- in particular, the moral evaluation of parenting styles that differ between socially stratified groups. And I am also interested in the philosophy of education -- in particular, in debates about the relationship between social justice and neoliberal education policy reform.