Zoë A. Johnson King is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy who joined Harvard in Fall 2022. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at New York University, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, a secondary school teacher in Croydon, and an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge (in that order, going backwards through time). Johnson King works in ethics, metaethics, epistemology, decision theory, and philosophy of law. Her primary research project lies within moral psychology and focuses on issues involving motivation, agency, and responsibility. She is particularly interested in praise and praiseworthiness, in contrast to the overwhelming focus on blame and blameworthiness found elsewhere in the literature. She is also particularly interested in evaluating the actions, beliefs, and character of the sorts of manifestly morally imperfect people that we find in everyday life, who must decide what to do while experiencing a great deal of moral uncertainty and ignorance and while facing surrounding circumstances that are frequently profoundly unjust or otherwise deeply morally challenging.