Harry Brighouse

Harry Brighouse is a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include the relationship between education and liberalism. His work on this topic has been widely cited [1][2][3]. In addition to academic journals, his work has been published in the Independent [4], New Statesman [5] and other newspapers and magazines. Brighouse has also written on justice more generally and on cosmopolitanism.

Brighouse received his B.A. from King's College London and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Southern California, under the direction of Barbara Herman. He is the son of Tim Brighouse, former commissioner of schools for London. [6]

Brighouse is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog.

Honours

He was a Carnegie Scholar chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2004 to work on a project entitled ‘Educational Justice and Institutional Reform’[7].

Selected bibliography

• School Choice and Social Justice , Oxford University Press, 2000
• On Education, Routldge 2006
• Can Justice as Fairness Accommodate Persons with Disabilities, Social Theory and Practice, 2001

Notable blog contributions

• In Defence of Marriage?
• All posts (Crooked Timber post list for Harry Brighouse)

External links

• Harry Brighouse home page