Professor Harry Brighouse
Professor of Philosophy and Educational Policy Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Philosophy
5119 Helen C. White
600 N. Park Street
(608) 263-3700
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: (608) 263-3700
Email: mhbrigho@wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
University of Southern California, Philosophy, 1991.
Academic Areas of Interest:
Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Education, Education Policy (US and UK).
On-Campus Affiliations:
Department of Philosophy
Honors and Awards:
Romnes Fellowship at UW Madison, 2002-2007.
Vilas Associate at UW Madison, 1999-2001.
Young Scholar at Program in Ethics and Public Life at Cornell University
(Spring 1998).
Carnegie Scholar 2004
Current Recent Professional Activities:
Co-Editor of Theory and Research in Education
Current Research Projects:
The place of the family in egalitarian liberalism: Justice in Education: Principles and Institutional Reform.
Recent and Representative Publications:
Choosing Equality: Parental Choice, Vouchers, and Educational Equality, Social Market Foundation, London (2002).
School Choice and Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000). Paperback edition 2003.
A Level Playing Field: Reforming Private Schools (Fabian Society, London -- Second Term Thinking Series, #3, 2000)
Educational Equality and the New Selective Schooling (IMPACT Pamphlet #3, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, 2000).
"Faith Schools in the UK: an unenthusiastic defence of a slightly reformed status quo," in Roy Gardner, ed. Faith Schools: Consensus or Conflict? (London: RoutledgeFalmer, forthcoming 2004).
“How Should Children be Heard?” Arizona Law Review vol 45, no 3 (2003): pp 691-711.
"Should We Teach Patriotic History?" in Kevin McDonough and Walter Feinberg eds, Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities, (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003).
(With Adam Swift) “Defending Liberalism in Education Theory and Policy," Journal of Education Policy vol. 18, no. 3 (2003), 377-395.
"Justice and Educational Equality" in Randall R Curren (ed), Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Education (Basil Blackwell 2003).
"Against Privatizing Schools in the UK," London Review of Education 1, 1 (2003), 35-46.
“Defending School Choice Modestly," Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 36, no 4 (2002) 653-660.
"What Rights (if any) Do Children Have?" in David Archard and Colin MacLeod eds, The Moral and Political Status of Children (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 31-52.
(with Alison Kirton) "Compulsory Citizenship Education in England: Problems and Prospects," Delta 53, 1&2 (2001): 61-78.
"School Vouchers, Personal Autonomy, and the Separation of Church and State," NOMOS, vol XLIII, Moral and Political Education, eds. Steven Macedo and Yael Tamir (New York University Press, 2001).
"Democracy and Inequality" in April Carter and Geoff Stokes eds., Democratic Theory Today (Polity Press, 2001), pp. 52-72.
"Can Justice as Fairness Accommodate Persons With Disabilities?" Social Theory and Practice, vol. 27, no 4, 2001, pp 537-560.
"Civic Education and Liberal Legitimacy", Ethics, vol. 108, no. 4, July 1998, pp. 719-745.
"Against Nationalism," Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 22, 1996 (Published 1998), pp. 365-405.
Courses Taught:
Philosophy 241, 341, 540, 541, 555, 557, 941, 955.
