Kaila Draper

Philosophy

Kaila Draper

Professor

kai@udel.edu

Office location

15 Kent Way, Room 103, Newark, DE 19716

Education

Ph.D. – University of California, Irvine

Biography

Kaila Draper, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. They received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Draper is the author of the book War and Individual Rights: The Foundations of Just War Theory (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015). Their research focus is ethics, law, politics, and epistemology. Currently, Draper is working on the rights of trans persons, animal rights, and ontology.

Sample of Publications

(2023) Benatar and Beyond: Rethinking the Consequences of Asymmetry, Utilitas.
(2019) Direct Inference and the Sleeping Beauty Problem, Synthese 198 (3): 2253-2271.
(2017) Even for Objectivists, Sleeping Beauty Isn’t So Simple, Analysis 77 (1): 29-37.
(2015) War and Individual Rights: The Foundations of Just War Theory, Oxford University Press.
(2012) Death and Rational Emotion, Ben Bradley et al., eds., Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death (Oxford Univ. Press).
(2007) Probabilistic Arguments for Multiple Universes (with P. Draper and J. Pust), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (3): 288-307.
(2005) Rights and the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing, Philosophy & Public Affairs 33 (3): 253-80.
(2004) Epicurean Equanimity towards Death, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (1): 92-114.
(2002) The Personal and Impersonal Dimensions of Benevolence, Nous 36 (2): 201-27.
(1999) Disappointment, Sadness, and Death, Philosophical Review 108 (3): 387-414.