Harry Brighouse is a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

. His research interests include the relationship between education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 and liberalism

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

. His work on this topic has been widely cited http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/donald-macintyre/labour-should-end-this-apartheid-in-education-625042.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/aug/27/religion.faithschoolshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/nov/22/education.schools. In addition to academic journals, his work has been published in the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/comment-harry-brighouse-697921.html, New Statesman

New Statesman

New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s....

 http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/harry_brighouse and other newspapers and magazines. Brighouse has also written on justice more generally and on cosmopolitanism.

Brighouse received his B.A. from King's College London

King's College London

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

 and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, under the direction of Barbara Herman. He is the son of Tim Brighouse

Tim Brighouse

Sir Timothy Robert Peter Brighouse is a British educator, and was, until 2007, Schools Commissioner for London.-Biography:He was educated at grammar schools in Loughborough and Lowestoft and St Catherine's College, Oxford University. He began his career as a schoolteacher, becoming a deputy head...

, former commissioner of schools for London. http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=390723

Brighouse is a member of the Crooked Timber

Crooked Timber

Crooked Timber is a widely-read political blog run by a group of academics from and working in several different nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and Singapore...

 group blog.

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’http://philosophy.wisc.edu/brighouse/CurriculumV.htm.

Selected bibliography

• School Choice and Social Justice , Oxford University Press, 2000
• On Education, Routldge 2006
• Can Justice as Fairness Accommodate Persons with Disabilities, Social Theory and Practice, 2001

Notable blog contributions

• In Defence of Marriage?
• All posts (Crooked Timber
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External links

• Harry Brighouse home page