Dr Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott
Lecturer

Dr Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott's research is situated at the intersection of social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, and feminist philosophy. Much of her work addresses the nature and form of the boundary rights of individuals. This involves interrogating the philosophical foundations of property, privacy, and consent.

Dr Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott's current research focusses on theories of property and self-ownership, with a view to understanding the kinds of rights we have over our bodies, external objects, intellectual property, or even personal data. She is interested in whether the idea that self-ownership provides a useful institutional framework for mapping the rights of individuals, even if it isn’t a fundamental natural right. Its usefulness comes in part from its capacity to make sense of different kinds of transactions involving the body – selling or donating bodily material, providing bodily services – as well as providing insight into reasons we might have for regulating or limiting certain kinds of bodily transactions.

Dr Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott's work also explores the general justificatory basis of systems of private property as well as questions of distributive justice.

Hannah Carnegy is based in the Department of Philosophy.