Harry Brighouse Explained
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.[1]
Brighouse has engaged himself in public debate on the topic of education and liberalism, and has been cited by publication such as The Independent,[2] The Guardian.[3] [4] New Statesman.[5]
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.[6]
Brighouse is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog.[7]
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.[8] He is also a Senior Adviser to the Spencer Foundation, a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to improving education through nonpartisan, high-quality academic research.[9] Brighouse is also a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA).[10]
Selected bibliography
Books
- Book: Brighouse, Harry . A level playing field: the reform of private schools . Fabian Society . London . 2000 . 9780716330523 .
- Book: Brighouse, Harry . School choice and social justice . Oxford University Press . Oxford New York . 2000 . 9780198295860 .
- Book: Brighouse, Harry . School choice and social justice . Oxford University Press . Oxford New York . 2003 . 9780199257874 .
- Book: Brighouse, Harry . Justice . Polity . Cambridge . 2004 . 9780745625966 . Translated into Polish as Book: Brighouse, Harry . Sprawiedliwość . Wydawnictwo Sic . Warszawa . 2007 . 9788360457306 .
- Book: Brighouse . Harry . Brock . Gillian . The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge New York . 2005 . 9780521846608 .
- Book: Brighouse, Harry . On education . Routledge . London New York . 2006 . 9780415327893 .
- Book: Brighouse, Harry . Sprawiedliwość . Wydawnictwo Sic . Warszawa . 2007 . 9788360457306 .
- Book: Brighouse . Harry . Robeyns . Ingrid . Ingrid Robeyns . Measuring justice: primary goods and capabilities . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, England . 2010 . 9781843156994 .
Journals
- Brighouse . Harry . Can justice as fairness accommodate the disabled? . Social Theory and Practice . 27 . 4 . 537–560 . 10.5840/soctheorpract200127433 . October 2001 .
- Brighouse . Harry . Equality of opportunity and complex equality: the special place of schooling . Res Publica . 13 . 2 . 147–158 . 10.1007/s11158-007-9029-8 . June 2007 . 144600641 .
- Brighouse . Harry . Swift . Adam . Educational adequacy versus educational equality . Journal of Applied Philosophy . 26 . 2 . 117–128 . 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2009.00438.x . May 2009 . 145719146 .
- Brighouse . Harry . Wright . Erik Olin . Strong gender egalitarianism . Politics and Society . 36 . 3 . 360–372 . 10.1177/0032329208320566 . September 2008 . 18294468 .
- Brighouse . Harry . Fleurbaey . Marc . Democracy and proportionality . Journal of Political Philosophy . 18 . 2 . 137–155 . 10.1111/j.1467-9760.2008.00316.x . June 2010 .
Notable blog contributions
External links
Notes and References
- Pedersen . Jørgen . Bøyum . Steinar . May 2020 . Inheritance and the Family . Journal of Applied Philosophy . en . 37 . 2 . 299–313 . 10.1111/japp.12389 . 0264-3758. free .
- News: Macintyre. Donald. Labour should end this apartheid in education. 9 April 2014. The Independent. 23 November 2000. London. 3. 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..
- News: Walter. Natasha. Divine and rule. 9 April 2014. The Guardian. 27 August 2005. 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.".
- News: Smithers. Rebecca. Reformers target private education. 9 April 2014. The Guardian. 22 November 2000. 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..
- News: Brighouse. Harry. You can't have a cut-price Eton. 9 April 2014. New Statesman. 12 January 2004.
- News: Brighouse. Tim. Can comprehensives really work?. 9 April 2014. Times Educational Supplement (TES). 27 August 2004. Tim Brighouse is the commissioner for London schools and Harry Brighouse's father.
- Web site: Harry. (blog). Posts by author: Harry. Crooked Timber. 9 April 2014.
- Web site: Professor Harry Brighouse – Curriculum Vitae. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 9 April 2014.
- Web site: Professor Diana E. Hess. The Spencer Foundation. 9 April 2014. 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.... dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131129120910/http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/diana_hess. 29 November 2013. dmy-all.
- Web site: HDCA Fellows. Human Development & Capability Association. 9 April 2014.
