{"id":204,"date":"2015-08-31T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/paul-e-schofield\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:40:03","slug":"paul-e-schofield","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/paul-e-schofield\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul E. Schofield"},"content":{"rendered":"

PhD, Harvard University; BA, University of Notre Dame<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Paul Schofield\u2019s research focuses on moral and political philosophy as well as the philosophy of film. He teaches classes on ethics and politics, the history of philosophy, and the Philosophy of Film. His first book,\u00a0Duty to Self: Moral, Political, and Legal Self-Relation<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>was published in 2021 by Oxford University\u00a0Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Publications<\/a><\/p>\n

Selected Publications:
\n“Practical Identity and Duties to the Self”<\/a>
\n“Paternalism and Right”<\/a>
\n“Action and Agency in THE RED SHOES”<\/a><\/p>\n

Writing for the Public:
\n“Homelessness and Sex” (Slate)<\/a>
\n“The Necessity of Guaranteed Housing” (APA Blog)
\n<\/a>“Homelessness and Higher Ed” (Inside Higher Ed)<\/a>
\n“Homelessness and Freedom” (The Conversation)<\/a>
\n“Crime and Homelessness” (Washington Post)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":2287,"template":"","class_list":["post-204","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-specific-environmental-ethics","expertise-specific-ethics","expertise-specific-history-of-modern-philosophy-esp-moral-and-political","expertise-specific-philosophy-of-film","expertise-specific-political-philosophy","what-i-teach-specific-capitalism","what-i-teach-specific-moral-controversies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/697"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7226,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/204\/revisions\/7226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}