Jules Sheldon

Jules Sheldon, 300w

Position:

Graduate Student

Campus:

St. George,

Biography:

  • BA (Hons), University of Sydney (Philosophy)
  • MPhil, University of Sydney (Philosophy)

Jules is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy, working primarily on social and political philosophy. He is writing his dissertation on prisons, aiming to interrogate the normative and empirical justification of imprisonment and advocate for radical decarceration. His research seeks to put theories of punishment into closer dialogue with work in legal theory, criminology, and sociology. He is also interested in moral psychology, cultural politics and counterculture, feminist philosophy, and aesthetics. 

Research Interests:

Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Aesthetics, Feminist Philosophy