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Quill Kukla: Consent to Sex in a Non-Ideal World

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Quill R. Kukla is a Professor of Philosophy at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Quill and Kate explore how it is possible to consent to sex in a world riven with inequality and power-imbalance.

Kate Greasley is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Oxford. She is the Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded project, “Sexual Consent in the Post-#MeToo World: A Study in Philosophy and Law.” Quill R. Kukla is a Professor of Philosophy and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, where they are also the director of Disability Studies. Their main areas of research are philosophy of language, philosophy of science, ethics, social epistemology, and anti-oppression philosophy.

In this conversation, Quill and Kate explore how it is possible to consent to sex in a world riven with inequality and power-imbalance. The conversation draws on Professor Kukla’s 2021 Ethics paper, “A Nonideal Theory of Sexual Consent.”

Visit the project website https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sexual-consent-in-the-post-metoo-world/sexual-consent-post-metoo-world

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Series
Oxford Conversations on Consent
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Quill R. Kukla
Kate Greasley
Keywords
sexual consent
anti-oppression philosophy
social epistemology
ethics
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 22/07/2026
Duration: 00:42:29

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