Chair TBD
Thomas Pogge (Yale)
Biography
Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale with additional affiliations at Kings College London and the Universities of Sydney, Oslo and Central Lancashire. His recent publications include Politics as Usual (Polity 2010); World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity 2008); John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice (Oxford 2007); and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (Oxford & UNESCO 2007). Pogge is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science as well as President of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network aiming to enhance the impact of scholars, teachers and students on global poverty, and of Incentives for Global Health, a team effort toward creating the Health Impact Fund (HIF), a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide. He has also led major grant-funded collaborations toward testing and specifying the HIF idea as well as a large grant toward developing better measures of poverty and gender disparities. Pogge has given over 1000 public lectures in 44 countries, supervised 59 successful dissertations and, as editor for political philosophy of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, brought 59 entries online.
Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick)
Biography
Kimberley Brownlee is an Associate Professor of Legal and Moral Philosophy at the University of Warwick. From 2005-2012, she was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University (2008); an HLA Hart Visiting Research Fellow at University College, Oxford (2009); a CEPPA Visiting Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at St Andrews University (2009); and a Visiting Scholar in the UCLA Law School (2012). In 2012, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust. She is the author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (OUP, 2012), and the co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (OUP, 2009). She has published on conscience, conscientious disobedience, punishment, human rights, practical reason theory, ideals, and virtue. Her current monograph focuses on the ethics of sociability and social human rights.
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88th joint session
of
the aristotelian society & the mind association
11 to 13 July 2014
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 9DA
United Kingdom
The local organiser is Dr. Tim Button
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