Andrew Franklin-Hall

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy

The University of Toronto

andrew.franklin.hall[at]utoronto.ca

Specialization: Moral Philosophy, Social/Political Philosophy, Bioethics

PhD, Columbia University

A lot of my work focuses on moral questions related to the formation of agency and values in childhood, the impairment or deterioration of these things from illness, and the ways we might try to manage our future selves by precommitting to certain plans. Many of these issues are relevant to bioethics or to the intersection of political philosophy and the philosophy of education.

I am affiliated with the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics and Joint Centre for Bioethics.

Publications

“Competence for Minors and Medical Decision-Making: A Life-Stage Approach,” in Proceedings of the British Academy: Children’s Consent: Philosophy and Law in Conversation, Lisa Forsberg, Isra Black, and Anthony Skelton (eds.) (Liverpool: The British Academy, 2025), 31-47. {Penultimate Draft}

“Freedom and the Invisible Hand: Hussain on the Judgment-Bypassing Character of the Market,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 55:1 (2025), 21–35. {Penultimate Draft}

“Remaining True to Ourselves: Dementia, Value Change, and Enduring Interests,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 27:1 (March

2024), 1-33. {Open Access Link}

“Binding the Self: The Ethics of Ulysses Contracts,” Ethics 134:1 (October 2023), 57-76. {Penultimate Draft}

“Teaching Children to Think: Autonomy as an Aim of Education,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 39:4 (August 2022), 581-596. {Penultimate Draft}

“What Parents May Teach their Children: A Defense of Perfectionism in Childrearing,” Social Theory and Practice 45:3 (July 2019), 371-396. {Penultimate Draft}

(with Agnieszka Jaworska) “Holding on to the Reasons of the Heart: Cognitive Deterioration and the Capacity to Love,” in Love, Reason, and Morality, Esther Kroeker and Katrien Schaubroeck (eds.) (London: Routledge, 2016), 20-38. {Penultimate Draft}

“On Becoming an Adult: Autonomy and the Moral Relevance of Life’s Stages,” Philosophical Quarterly 63 (April 2013), 223-247. {Penultimate Draft}

“Creation and Authority: The Natural Law Foundations of Locke’s Account of Parental Authority,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 42,

Nos. 3/4, (September/December 2012), 255-280. {Penultimate Draft}