Jonathan Ichikawa

Some Recent publications:

• Consent Theory as Hermeneutical Injustice

• Sexual Agency and Sexual Wrongs: A Dilemma for Consent Theory (with Melissa Rees)

• Epistemic Courage

• Normative Inference Tickets (with Jen Foster)

• Defensiveness and Identity (with Audrey Yap)

• You Ought To Have Known: Positive Epistemic Norms in a Knowledge-First Framework

• Not What I Agreed To: Content and Consent (with Emily Tilton)

• Presupposition and Consent

I’m a Professor of Philosophy and Department Head at the University of British Columbia.

News and events:

• I will speak on consent and agency at Durham University in September

• I will speak on courage, doubt, and blame at an Ethics of Doubt conference in Southampton in September

• I’ve resumed my role as UBC Philosophy Department Head for 2026–28.

• My book Epistemic Courage won the 2026 CPA Book Prize.

• I hosted a UBC conference on Consent and Sexual Education, May 28–29, where I also gave a talk on sexual assault and consent.

• I was awarded the 2026 UBC Dean of Arts Faculty Mentorship Award.

• I am part of an interdisiplinary team that won an Insight Development Grant on “Relationship Equity and Intersectional Measurement Among Gender-inclusive Young women, men, and Non-binary youth in British Columbia”.