Executive Committee
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K. Anthony Appiah
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human ValuesKwame Anthony Appiah has published widely in philosophy and in African and African American literary and cultural studies. In 1992, Oxford University Press published In My Father’s House, which deals, in part, with the role of African and African American intellectuals in shaping contemporary African cultural life. His major current work has to do with the relationships between philosophical ethics and other disciplines. In 1996, he published Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race with Amy Gutmann; in 1997, the Dictionary of Global Culture, coedited with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Along with Gates, he has also edited the Encarta Africana cd-rom encyclopedia, published by Microsoft, which developed into Oxford University Press’s five-volume Africana encyclopedia in book form. In 2003, he coauthored Bu Me Bé: Proverbs of the Akan (of which his mother is the major author), an annotated edition of 7,500 proverbs in Twi, the language of Asante. He is also the author of three novels, of which the first, Avenging Angel, was largely set at Clare College, Cambridge, where he received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. His recent books include Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (2004), The Ethics of Identity (2005), Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006), Experiments in Ethics (2008), and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happens (2010).
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Charles R. Beitz
Director of the University Center for Human Values, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of PoliticsCharles Beitz’s philosophical and teaching interests focus on international political theory, democratic theory, contemporary theories of justice and the theory of human rights. His most recent book is The Idea of Human Rights (2009). He has also written Political Theory and International Relations (rev. ed. 1999) and Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory (1989) as well as articles on a variety of topics in political philosophy. His co-edited volumes include International Ethics, Law, Economics, and Philosophy and, most recently, Global Basic Rights. In 2009 he completed a ten-year term as editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs. Before coming to Princeton in 2001, he taught at Swarthmore College and Bowdoin College, where he was also Dean for Academic Affairs. He has received fellowship awards from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Council on Education and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Beitz earned a bachelor's degree from Colgate University and a Ph.D. in Princeton's Program in Political Philosophy.
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Sandra Bermann
Cotsen Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Comparative LiteraturePhone (609) 258-4265
Fax (609) 258-1873
Email sandralb@princeton.edu
Location 107 East Pyne Building
Sandra Bermann is the Cotsen Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature. She has served as chair of the Department of Comparative Literature. In addition to articles and reviews in scholarly journals, she is the author of The Sonnet Over Time: Studies in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire, and translator of Manzoni’s On the Historical Novel. Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation, coedited with Michael Wood, was published by Princeton University Press in 2005. Her current projects focus on lyric poetry, translation, the intersections between 20th-century historiography and literary theory, and new directions in the field of comparative literature. A recipient of Whiting and Fulbright Fellowships, and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in Paris, she recently finished a term as President of the American Comparative Literature Association (2007-09). At Princeton she was Master of Stevenson Hall, and founder with Michael Wood of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. She received her B.A. at Smith College and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University.
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John M. Cooper
Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Program in Classical PhilosophyJohn Cooper is the author of Reason and Human Good in Aristotle, which was awarded the American Philosophical Association's Franklin Matchette Prize, and two collections of essays, Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory (1999) and Knowledge, Nature, and the Good: Essays on Ancient Philosophy (2004). His work in ancient Greek philosophy spans the areas of metaphysics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political theory. Cooper's papers are published in many collected editions and in scholarly journals such as Philosophical Review, Journal of Philosophy, and Phronesis. He is co-editor of Seneca: Moral and Political Essays, and his edition of Plato: Complete Works came out in 1997. He was president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (1999-2000), and was vice-chair of the association's national Board of Officers (2001-02). He has held research fellowships of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before coming to Princeton, Cooper held positions at Harvard University and the University of Pittsburgh. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard College, his B. Phil. from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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Marc Fleurbaey
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human ValuesMarc Fleurbaey is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values. He has been an economist at INSEE (Paris), a professor of economics at the Universities of Cergy-Pontoise and Pau (France), and a research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He has also been a Lachmann Fellow and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, a research associate at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve) and the Institute for Public Economics (IDEP, Marseilles), and a visiting researcher at Oxford. He is a former editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy and as of 2012 is the coordinating editor of Social Choice and Welfare. He is the author of Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare (2008), a co-author of A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (with François Maniquet, 2011), and the coeditor of several books, including Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls (with Maurice Salles and John Weymark, 2008). His research on normative and public economics and theories of distributive justice has focused in particular on the analysis of equality of opportunity and responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism and on seeking solutions to famous impossibilities of social choice theory.
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Eric Gregory
Professor of ReligionEric Gregory’s research interests include religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life. He has received fellowships from the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, the Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in 2007 was awarded Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is the author of Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (2008), and various articles, including "Before The Original Position: The Neo-Orthodox Theology of the Young John Rawls" (Journal of Religious Ethics), "Augustinians and the New Liberalism" (Augustinian Studies), and "Religion and Bioethics" (A Companion to Bioethics, 2nd edition). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled, What Do We Owe Strangers? Globalization and the Good Samaritan, which examines secular and religious perspectives on global justice. A graduate of Harvard College, he earned an M.Phil. and Diploma in Theology from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and his doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University.
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Elizabeth Harman
Associate Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Laurance S. Rockefeller University PreceptorElizabeth Harman, Associate Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, works in ethics. Her papers include "Creation Ethics: The Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion" (Philosophy and Public Affairs), "The Potentiality Problem" (Philosophical Studies), "Can We Harm and Benefit in Creating?" (Philosophical Perspectives), "Harming as Causing Harm" (in Harming Future Persons), and "'I'll Be Glad I Did It' Reasoning and the Significance of Future Desires" (Philosophical Perspectives).
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Melissa Lane
Director of the Undergraduate Certificate Program in Values and Public Life, Professor of PoliticsMelissa Lane researches and teaches in the area of the history of political thought, with a special expertise in ancient Greek thought, and in normative political philosophy, including work in the areas of corporate ethics, environmental ethics, and bioethics. Professor Lane is director of the Center’s undergraduate certificate program in Values and Public Life. Her publications include the books Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living (2011); Plato’s Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind (2001); and Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman (1998). More recently she has authored an Introduction to the 2007 Penguin edition of Plato’s Republic, and the entry on ‘Ancient Political Philosophy’ in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Before coming to Princeton in 2009, she taught at the University of Cambridge, where she served inter alia as director of the M.Phil in Political Thought and Intellectual History and a Syndic of Cambridge University Press. She is a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (RSA). Professor Lane earned a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University and an M.Phil and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
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Stephen Macedo
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human ValuesStephen Macedo writes and teaches on political theory, ethics, public policy, and law, especially on topics related to liberalism, democracy and citizenship, diversity and civic education, religion and politics, and the family and sexuality. His current research concerns immigration and social justice, constitutional democracy in the US, and democracy and international institutions. From 2001-2009, he was director of the University Center for Human Values. As founding director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (1999-2001), he chaired the Princeton Project on Universal Jurisdiction, helped formulate the Princeton Principles on Universal Jurisdiction, and edited Universal Jurisdiction: International Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law (2004). As vice president of the American Political Science Association, he was first chair of its standing committee on Civic Education and Engagement and principal co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (2005). His other books include Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (2000); and Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism (1990). He is co-author and co-editor of American Constitutional Interpretation, with W. F. Murphy, J. E. Fleming, and S. A. Barber (2008).
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Jan-Werner Mueller
Professor of PoliticsJan-Werner Mueller's research interests include the history of modern political thought, liberalism and its critics, nationalism, and the normative dimensions of European integration. He is the author of A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (2003) and Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (2000). In addition, he has edited German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (2003) and Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (2002). His book Constitutional Patriotism was published by Princeton University Press in 2007. He has been a fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study; Harvard University; the Remarque Institute, New York University; and the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the EHESS, Paris. He serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Political Theory, the Journal of Contemporary History, and Raison Publique: Revue Internationale de Philosophie Pratique et Appliquée.
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Alan Patten
Professor of Politics, Associate Chair of the Department of PoliticsAlan Patten, professor of politics, is the author of Hegel’s Idea of Freedom (1999), which won the APSA First Book Prize in Political Theory and the C. B. Macpherson Prize awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association. He is the coeditor, with Will Kymlicka, of Language Rights and Political Theory (2003). His articles include “Political Theory and Language Policy,” (Political Theory, 2001); “Democratic Secession from a Multinational State,” (Ethics, 2002); “Liberal Neutrality and Language Polic,” (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2003); and “Humanist Roots of Linguistic Nationalism,” (History of Political Thought, 2006). He is currently completing a book titled Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Cultural Rights. He has a longer-term project underway on nationalism and the history of political thought. Patten is the outgoing chair of the Fund for Canadian Studies at Princeton, and the current associate chair of the Department of Politics. He is also the editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs.
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Philip Pettit
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor for Politics and the University Center for Human Values, Director of the Program in Political PhilosophyPhone (609) 258-4759
Fax (609) 258-2729
Email ppettit@princeton.edu
Website http://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/
Location 308 Marx Hall
Philip Pettit works in moral and political philosophy and on background issues in philosophical psychology and social ontology. His recent single-authored books include The Common Mind (1996), Republicanism (1997), A Theory of Freedom (2001), Rules, Reasons, and Norms (2002) and Made with Words: Hobbes on Mind, Society, and Politics (2008). He is the coauthor of The Economy of Esteem (2004), with Geoffrey Brennan; and Mind, Morality, and Explanation (2004), a selection of papers with Frank Jackson and Michael Smith. Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit appeared in 2007 with Oxford University Press, edited by Michael Smith, Geoffrey Brennan, Robert Goodin, and Frank Jackson. Pettit leads the Project on Democracy and Human Values at the University Center for Human Values, which explores democratic principles and practices and fosters collaboration among normative and empirical researchers on fundamental questions of democratic governance.
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Kim Lane Scheppele
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, Director of the Program in Law and Public AffairsKim Lane Scheppele is the director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs and faculty associate in Politics. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2005, she was the John J. O'Brien Professor of Comparative Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she remains a faculty fellow in the law school. Her primary field is comparative constitutional law, and she has spent much time under three different grants from the National Science Foundation studying post-communist European countries undergoing constitutional transformation. She has published extensively on this topic in law reviews and social science journals. Her forthcoming book, The International State of Emergency, examines constitutional changes around the world in the wake of 9/11. Scheppele has held elective offices in the Law and Society Association as well as in the Sociology of Law and Theory sections of the American Sociological Association.
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Peter Singer
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human ValuesPhone (609) 258-2202
Fax (609) 258-1285
Email psinger@princeton.edu
Website http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/
Location Room 203, 5 Ivy Lane
Peter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation (2001). His other books include: Democracy and Disobedience (1973); Practical Ethics (rev. ed. 1993); The Expanding Circle (1983); Marx (2010); Hegel (2001); The Reproduction Revolution (1984)(co-authored with Deane Wells); Should the Baby Live? (1986)(co-authored with Helga Kuhse); How Are We to Live? (1995); Rethinking Life and Death (1996); One World (2004); Pushing Time Away (2004); The President of Good and Evil (2004); The Ethics of What We Eat (1997)(co-authored with Jim Mason) and The Life You Can Save (2009). Singer holds his appointment at the Center jointly with his appointment as Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, attached to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
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Michael Smith
McCosh Professor of PhilosophyMichael Smith rejoined the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University in 2004 after spending 10 years in the philosophy program at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. His primary research interests include ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind and action, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. He is the author of The Moral Problem (1994), for which he was awarded the American Philosophical Association Book Prize 1994-96; Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (2004); and coauthor of Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (2004), a collection of papers written in various combinations by Smith, Frank Jackson, and Philip Pettit. He is also the editor of Meta-Ethics (1995), and the co-editor of Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz (2004) with Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, and Samuel Scheffler; The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy (2005) with Frank Jackson; and Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit (2007) with Geoffrey Brennan, Robert Goodin, and Frank Jackson.