Stephanie Sheintul

Stephanie Sheintul is currently a Lecturer of Philosophy at The University of Adelaide. She received her Ph.D from The University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2022 and was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University in academic year 2022-2023. Her primary research interests are in ethics and epistemology, especially where these intersect. Her current research concerns some of the ways in which we may disrespect each other’s autonomous agency as well the demands that morality places on our doxastic behavior. She is working on a project that specifies a special sort of agency-based injustice, what she calls an agential injustice. She argues that an agential injustice takes place whenever we interfere with or take over matters or decisions in another person’s legitimate control based on a disrespectful belief about the soundness of their judgment or the strength of their will. She is also working on a project that defends an account of when and why some of our beliefs and belief formation processes are disrespectful. She has published work on the ethics of paternalism and doxastic wronging.

[2026] Kotarba-Morley, A., Westra, S., Andrews, G., Bardsley, D., Braum, F., Bi, P., . . . Ariella, H. (2026). Evaluative governance for climate action in Australia. Nature Sustainability, 9(7), 944-946. [2025] Sheintul, S. (2025). Autonomy, Paternalism, and AI-Driven Nudges. Philosophy & Technology, 38(4). [2024] Sheintul, S. (2024). Doxastic Wronging, Disrespectful Belief, & The Moral Over-Demandingness Objection. Journal of Value Inquiry, 60(3), 469-479. [2023] Sheintul, S. (2023). The Normative Connection Between Paternalism and Belief. The Journal of Ethics, 27(1), 97-114.