[2] Her present research interests include two separate but intersecting strains: Wittgenstein's approach to ethics, and the philosophy of addiction.
[3] O'Connor has also acted in several administrative capacities, including chair of the Philosophy Department in 2011, and director of the Women's Studies Program from 1999 to 2011.
[3] O'Connor's research interests include two separate but intersecting strains: Wittgenstein's approach to ethics and the philosophy of addiction.
It opposes both realist and antirealist positions to metaethics, suggesting instead a Wittgensteinian approach that O'Connor calls "felted contextualism".
Addicts struggle with issues of self-identity, self-knowledge and self-deception, the nature of God, existential dilemmas, marking the line between appearance and reality, free will and voluntariness, and moral responsibility.