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Daniel Wodak

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Law
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Daniel Wodak is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He also hold a secondary appointment from the Penn Law School, and is an Associate Director of Penn’s Institute for Law and Philosophy.

Dr. Wodak finished his PhD in Philosophy at Princeton in 2016. From 2016 to 2019 he was an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Virginia Tech.

Dr. Wodak works broadly in moral, legal, social and political philosophy. He won the Marc Sanders Prize for Political Philosophy in 2023and the Marc Sanders Prize for Metaethics in 2019.

You can read more about his research here. He has talked about some of these interests on podcasts on reparations (for In These Times) and on echo chambers (for HiPhi Nation), and in op-eds on gender pronouns in The Guardian and Scientific American. And he discussed some work in philosophy of law in this interview.

Dr. Wodak is the director of a new prison teaching project at Penn. This builds on work he did in grad school teaching for Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative. He wrote about
teaching philosophy in prisons in a periodical called Oberon: “Inequality in Education.”

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