Alison Hills should not be confused with Allison Hill, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Alison Hills is a British philosopher who specializes in moral philosophy, epistemology, and animal ethics.
Hills is Professor of Philosophy at St John's College, Oxford.[1] She obtained her PhD in philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge. She was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. Hills lectured in philosophy at Bristol University from 2003 to 2006 before moving to St John's College, Oxford in 2006.[1]
In September 2017 Hills was a member of the expert panel discussing Kant's Categorical Imperative on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.[2]
In 2005, Hills authored the book Do Animals Have Rights? The book was positively reviewed by Benjamin Hale as "carv[ing] a centre path between the so-called ‘extreme’ animal rights view and the view which sees no merit in the claim that animals have rights".[3]