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Harry Brighouse

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|institutions = University of Wisconsin–Madison

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University of Southern California (PhD)

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Harry Brighouse is a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include moral philosophy and the relationship between education and liberalism. Brighouse is particularly famous for his book with philosopher and sociologist Adam Swift, Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (2014: Princeton University Press), which is considered seminal work on the moral philosophy of the family.{{Cite journal |last=Pedersen |first=Jørgen |last2=Bøyum |first2=Steinar |date=May 2020 |title=Inheritance and the Family |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/japp.12389 |journal=Journal of Applied Philosophy |language=en |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=299–313 |doi=10.1111/japp.12389 |issn=0264-3758|doi-access=free }}

Brighouse has engaged himself in public debate on the topic of education and liberalism, and has been cited by publication such as The Independent,{{cite news|last=Macintyre|first=Donald|title=Labour should end this apartheid in education|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/|access-date=9 April 2014|newspaper=The Independent|date=23 November 2000|location=London|pages=3|quote=Professor Brighouse's most arresting proposal ... is to make the charitable status of private schools – and other incentives – conditional on their willingness to abolish academic selection. The idea is that parents seeking the purely academic benefits of private education would then be much less inclined to do so.}} The Guardian.{{cite news|last=Walter|first=Natasha|title=Divine and rule|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/27/religion.faithschools|access-date=9 April 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=27 August 2005|quote=Harry Brighouse, professor of philosophy and education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has watched the expansion of ACE (Accelerated Christian Education) in America with distaste. "It is a crude curriculum. It doesn't encourage questioning or individual thought – it is very much based on rote learning."}}{{cite news|last=Smithers|first=Rebecca|title=Reformers target private education|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/22/education.schools|access-date=9 April 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 November 2000|quote=Harry Brighouse of London University's institute of education, called for a new relationship between the sectors to ensure that the benefits of private education – more money, better resources and good academic results – are more widely distributed for the benefit of all pupils.}} New Statesman.{{cite news|last=Brighouse|first=Harry|title=You can't have a cut-price Eton|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/node/147025|access-date=9 April 2014|newspaper=New Statesman|date=12 January 2004}}

Brighouse received his B.A. from King's College London and earned his PhD 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.{{cite news|last=Brighouse|first=Tim|title=Can comprehensives really work?|url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=398893|access-date=9 April 2014|newspaper=Times Educational Supplement (TES)|date=27 August 2004|quote=Tim Brighouse is the commissioner for London schools and Harry Brighouse's father}}

Brighouse is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog.{{cite web|last=Harry|first=(blog)|title=Posts by author: Harry|url=http://crookedtimber.org/author/harry/|publisher=Crooked Timber|access-date=9 April 2014}}

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.{{cite web|title=Professor Harry Brighouse – Curriculum Vitae|url=http://philosophy.wisc.edu/brighouse/CurriculumV.htm|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison|access-date=9 April 2014}} He is also a Senior Adviser to the Spencer Foundation, a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to improving education through nonpartisan, high-quality academic research.{{cite web|title=Professor Diana E. Hess|url=http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/diana_hess|publisher=The Spencer Foundation|access-date=9 April 2014|quote=According to Harry Brighouse, Senior Advisor to the Spencer Foundation and Hess' colleague at the University of Wisconsin, "Diana is a first rate leader who...|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129120910/http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/diana_hess|archive-date=29 November 2013|df=dmy-all}} Brighouse is also a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA).{{cite web|title=HDCA Fellows|url=https://hd-ca.org/about/hdca-fellows|publisher=Human Development & Capability Association|access-date=9 April 2014}}

Selected bibliography

= Books =

  • {{cite book | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | title = A level playing field: the reform of private schools | publisher = Fabian Society | location = London | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780716330523 }}
  • {{cite book | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | title = School choice and social justice | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780198295860 }}
  • {{cite book | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | title = School choice and social justice | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780199257874 }}
  • {{cite book | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | title = Justice | publisher = Polity | location = Cambridge | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780745625966 }} Translated into Polish as {{cite book | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | title = Sprawiedliwość | publisher = Wydawnictwo Sic | location = Warszawa | year = 2007 | isbn = 9788360457306 }}
  • {{cite book | last1 = Brighouse | first1 = Harry | last2 = Brock | first2 = Gillian | title = The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780521846608 }}
  • {{cite book | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | title = On education | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780415327893 }}
  • {{cite book | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | title = Sprawiedliwość | publisher = Wydawnictwo Sic | location = Warszawa | year = 2007 | isbn = 9788360457306 }}
  • {{cite book | last1 = Brighouse | first1 = Harry | last2 = Robeyns | first2 = Ingrid | author-link2 = Ingrid Robeyns | title = Measuring justice: primary goods and capabilities | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, England | year = 2010 | isbn = 9781843156994 }}

= Chapter in books =

  • {{Citation | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | contribution = School choice: theoretical considerations | editor-last1 = Bowles | editor-first1 = Samuel | editor-last2 = Gintis | editor-first2 = Herbert | title = Recasting egalitarianism: new rules for communities, states, and markets | pages = 141–180 | publisher = New York Verso | location = England | year = 1998 | isbn = 9781859848630 }}
  • {{Citation | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | contribution = Schooling in a socialist society | editor-last1 = Anton | editor-first1 = Anatole | editor-last2 = Schmitt | editor-first2 = Richard | title = Toward a new socialism | pages = 231–246 | publisher = Lexington Books | location = Lanham, MD | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780739118627 }}
  • {{Citation | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | contribution = Moral and political aims of education | editor-last = Siegel | editor-first = Harvey | title = The Oxford handbook of philosophy of education | pages = 35–51 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780195312881 }}
  • {{Citation | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | contribution = Civility, citizenship, and the limits of schooling | editor-last1 = Mower | editor-first1 = Deborah S | editor-last2 = Robison | editor-first2 = Wade L | title = Civility in politics and education | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780415897259 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Brighouse | first1 = Harry | last2 = Unterhalter | first2 = Elaine | contribution = Primary goods, capabilities, and the millennium development target for gender equity in education | editor-last1 = Comim | editor-first1 = Flavio | editor-last2 = Nussbaum | editor-first2 = Martha C | title = Capabilities, gender, equality: towards fundamental entitlements | pages = 215–243 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | year = 2013 | isbn = 9781107015692 }}

= Journals =

  • {{Cite journal | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | title = Can justice as fairness accommodate the disabled? | journal = Social Theory and Practice | volume = 27 | issue = 4 | pages = 537–560 | doi = 10.5840/soctheorpract200127433 | date = October 2001 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Brighouse | first = Harry | title = Equality of opportunity and complex equality: the special place of schooling | journal = Res Publica | volume = 13 | issue = 2 | pages = 147–158 | doi = 10.1007/s11158-007-9029-8 | date = June 2007 | s2cid = 144600641 | url = https://philarchive.org/rec/BRIEOO }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Brighouse | first1 = Harry | last2 = Swift | first2 = Adam | title = Educational adequacy versus educational equality | journal = Journal of Applied Philosophy | volume = 26 | issue = 2 | pages = 117–128 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2009.00438.x | date = May 2009 | s2cid = 145719146 | url = https://philpapers.org/rec/BRIEEV }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Brighouse | first1 = Harry | last2 = Wright | first2 = Erik Olin | title = Strong gender egalitarianism | journal = Politics and Society | volume = 36 | issue = 3 | pages = 360–372 | doi = 10.1177/0032329208320566 | date = September 2008 | s2cid = 18294468 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Brighouse | first1 = Harry | last2 = Fleurbaey | first2 = Marc | title = Democracy and proportionality | journal = Journal of Political Philosophy | volume = 18 | issue = 2 | pages = 137–155 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9760.2008.00316.x | date = June 2010 | url = https://philarchive.org/rec/BRIDAP }}

= Notable blog contributions =

  • {{cite web|last=Harry|first=(blog)|title=In defence of marriage?|url=http://crookedtimber.org/2004/05/11/in-defence-of-marriage/|publisher=Crooked Timber|access-date=9 April 2014|date=11 May 2004}}
  • {{cite web|last=Harry|first=(blog)|title=J K Rowling for grown ups|url=http://crookedtimber.org/2013/08/27/j-k-rowling-for-grown-ups/|publisher=Crooked Timber|access-date=9 April 2014|date=27 August 2013}}
  • {{cite web|last=Harry|first=(blog)|title=Stereotype threat and philosophy's problem|url=http://crookedtimber.org/2013/12/03/stereotype-threat-and-philosophys-problem/|publisher=Crooked Timber|access-date=9 April 2014|date=3 December 2013}}
  • {{cite web|last=Harry|first=(blog)|title=Assigning one's own books to one's students|url=http://crookedtimber.org/2014/03/30/assigning-ones-own-books-to-ones-students/|publisher=Crooked Timber|access-date=9 April 2014|date=30 March 2014}}

References

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External links

  • [https://sites.google.com/site/harrybrighouse/ Harry Brighouse home page]

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