I am a philosopher working on feminist epistemology, political philosophy, and philosophy of language. In my research, I ask how we can know about injustice. Or, in other words, I ask how social critique is possible. Currently, I am interested in utopian thinking as one means of social critique.
Until summer 2025, I am a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. Before that, I was a student at Newnham College in Cambridge for many years. I also spent some time at Humboldt Universität, Berlin, CUNY, New York, and ETH in Zürich.
From September 2025, I will be joining Utrecht University as Assistant Professor in Social and Political Philosophy.
You can contact me at pmk41@cam.ac.uk.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
- (forthcoming) "Distracting Metaphors," Ethics.
- (2024) "Rahel Levin Varnhagen" In The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition, edited by Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar.
- (2024) "Testimony by Presupposition," Erkenntnis, Vol. 89, pp 2149–2167. (Open Access)
- (2021) "Objectified Woman and Fetishized Objects", Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy , Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 27-55. (Open Access)
- (2021) Review of Berit Brogaard's Hatred , Ethics , 132, 1: pp. 232–238.
PUBLIC WRITING
Articles in DIE ZEIT, Times Literary Supplement, taz and Der Freitag.