Harry Brighouse
Mildred Fish Harnack Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carol Dickson Bascom Professor of Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Harry Brighouse is Mildred Fish-Harnack Professor of Philosophy of Education, Professor of Philosophy, Carol Dickson-Bascom Professor of the Humanities, and Affiliate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is also the director of the Center for Ethics and Education.
Brighouse’s research interests span political philosophy, philosophy of education, and educational policy. He recently published three books: Family Values: the Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (Princeton 2014), a book on the justification of the family with Adam Swift; The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice (Chicago, 2015), a collection of original essays by distinguished philosophers about issues in higher education, which he edited with Michael McPherson, and which won the 2017 Federic W. Ness Award for the book contributing to our understanding of liberal education, from the Association of American Colleges and Universities; and Educational Goods (Chicago, 2018), about how educational decision-makers can integrate considerations of value with empirical evidence, written with Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, and Adam Swift.