Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc

My main research program concerns dehumanization as a category of acts, attitudes, and social practices. Victims of inhumanity commonly complain that they were treated as objects, animals, or subhuman monsters, or that their humanity was invisible to those who abused them. I defend a unified theory of the dehumanization at issue—its nature, kinds, and moral profile—and argue that the wrong of various forms of inhumanity toward people is best explained by my theory. Future research in this area will attend to dehumanization's neighbors: infantilization, racism, ethnic prejudice, xenophobia, and evil. 

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In other strands of my research, I try (1) to trace the proto-ethical pressures of our human affective capacities and (2) to explore the moral significance of the fact that many of our moral obligations are obligations to others.
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