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Harry Brighouse

Harry Brighouse
Brighouse in 2015
NationalityBritish
Alma materKing's College London (BA)
University of Southern California (PhD)
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Main interests
Political philosophy

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

  • Brighouse, Harry (2000). A level playing field: the reform of private schools. London: Fabian Society. ISBN 9780716330523.
  • Brighouse, Harry (2000). School choice and social justice. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198295860.
  • Brighouse, Harry (2003). School choice and social justice. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199257874.
  • Brighouse, Harry (2004). Justice. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 9780745625966. Translated into Polish as Brighouse, Harry (2007). Sprawiedliwość. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sic. ISBN 9788360457306.
  • Brighouse, Harry; Brock, Gillian (2005). The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521846608.
  • Brighouse, Harry (2006). On education. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415327893.
  • Brighouse, Harry (2007). Sprawiedliwość. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sic. ISBN 9788360457306.
  • Brighouse, Harry; Robeyns, Ingrid (2010). Measuring justice: primary goods and capabilities. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781843156994.

Chapter in books

  • Brighouse, Harry (1998), "School choice: theoretical considerations", in Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert (eds.), Recasting egalitarianism: new rules for communities, states, and markets, England: New York Verso, pp. 141–180, ISBN 9781859848630
  • Brighouse, Harry (2007), "Schooling in a socialist society", in Anton, Anatole; Schmitt, Richard (eds.), Toward a new socialism, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 231–246, ISBN 9780739118627
  • Brighouse, Harry (2009), "Moral and political aims of education", in Siegel, Harvey (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of education, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 35–51, ISBN 9780195312881
  • Brighouse, Harry (2012), "Civility, citizenship, and the limits of schooling", in Mower, Deborah S; Robison, Wade L (eds.), Civility in politics and education, New York: Routledge, ISBN 9780415897259
  • Brighouse, Harry; Unterhalter, Elaine (2013), "Primary goods, capabilities, and the millennium development target for gender equity in education", in Comim, Flavio; Nussbaum, Martha C (eds.), Capabilities, gender, equality: towards fundamental entitlements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 215–243, ISBN 9781107015692

Journals

Notable blog contributions

References

  1. ^ Pedersen, Jørgen; Bøyum, Steinar (May 2020). "Inheritance and the Family". Journal of Applied Philosophy. 37 (2): 299–313. doi:10.1111/japp.12389. ISSN 0264-3758.
  2. ^ Macintyre, Donald (23 November 2000). "Labour should end this apartheid in education". The Independent. London. p. 3. Retrieved 9 April 2014. 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.
  3. ^ Walter, Natasha (27 August 2005). "Divine and rule". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 April 2014. 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."
  4. ^ Smithers, Rebecca (22 November 2000). "Reformers target private education". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 April 2014. 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.
  5. ^ Brighouse, Harry (12 January 2004). "You can't have a cut-price Eton". New Statesman. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  6. ^ Brighouse, Tim (27 August 2004). "Can comprehensives really work?". Times Educational Supplement (TES). Retrieved 9 April 2014. Tim Brighouse is the commissioner for London schools and Harry Brighouse's father
  7. ^ Harry, (blog). "Posts by author: Harry". Crooked Timber. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  8. ^ "Professor Harry Brighouse – Curriculum Vitae". University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  9. ^ "Professor Diana E. Hess". The Spencer Foundation. Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Retrieved 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...
  10. ^ "HDCA Fellows". Human Development & Capability Association. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
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