Kate Petroff

I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. My primary interests are in social and political philosophy, nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, and ethics.   

Broadly speaking, my research concerns the relationship between capitalism and freedom. In my dissertation and several papers, I argue that capitalism makes us unfree in part because of its impact on our free time. In making this argument, I offer novel answers to a number of related questions, like how Marx conceived of freedom in Capital, what (if anything) is wrong with capitalism, and how freedom and free time are related.

I also have serious teaching and research interests in feminist philosophy and the philosophy of law. At the moment, I am working on a paper that examines the exploitation of reproductive labor.

My CV can be found here. 

I can be reached at petroff [at] uchicago.edu.