Sophie Gibert

Sophie Gibert is an Assistant Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She works in moral philosophy, action theory, bioethics, and business ethics. Her research focuses on the ethics of behavioral influence and the nature of freedom. She is especially interested in what makes forms of influence like manipulation, deception, and coercion wrong, when they are wrong, and how we should understand the notions of autonomy and freedom that figure in our complaints against wrongful influence. She is currently working on projects about manipulation and consent, blackmail, and the ethics of marketing, and is thinking more broadly about how competition and other special forms of interaction shape our moral norms.

Dr. Gibert received a PhD in Philosophy from MIT in 2024 and spent one year as a Bersoff Faculty Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at NYU. Before graduate school, she was a pre-doctoral fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center National Institutes of Health, where she researched ethical issues in public health and served as an ethics consultant. She continues to publish interdisciplinary work on topics in bioethics and co-hosts a podcast, Bio(un)ethical, which questions existing norms in medicine, science, and public health.