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Professor Frances M. Kamm

Professor
Frances M. Kamm

Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy
Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Rubenstein 108
617-495-5257
frances_kamm@ksg.harvard.edu
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/frances_kamm

Frances Kamm is the Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government, as well as Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. She is the author of Creation and Abortion (1992); Morality, Mortality, Vol. 1: Death and Whom to Save From It (1993); Morality, Mortality, Vol. 2: Rights, Duties, and Status (1996); and, most recently, Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm (2007). She also has published many articles on normative ethical theory and practical ethics.

Professor Kamm has held ACLS, AAUW, and Guggenheim fellowships, and has been a Fellow of the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School, the Center for Human Values at Princeton, and the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford. She is a member of the editorial boards of Philosophy & Public Affairs, Legal Theory, Bioethics, and Utilitas, and was a consultant on ethics to the World Health Organization.

Professor Kamm delivered the annual Oslo Lecture in Moral Philosophy in August 2007, and will give the Uehiro Lectures at Oxford in 2008.

Frances Kamm, Intricate Ethics

A blog about Professor Kamm's recent book, Intricate Ethics, may be found here.

A conference on Intricate Ethics was held on 22 & 23 February 2008, at Rutgers University. Presenters included: Shelly Kagan (Yale University); Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University); Gideon Rosen (Princeton University); T. M. Scanlon (Harvard University); and Seana Shiffrin (UCLA).

A video of Professor Kamm speaking about Intricate Ethics may be found here -- click on the link, "Meet Frances Kamm," underneath the image of the book's cover. (Real Player is required to view the video.)

Professor Kamm recently participated in a panel discussion on Russell Korobkin's book, Stem Cell Century, on C-SPAN2's program, "Book TV" -- click on the red "Watch" button once you've gotten to the site to view this program.

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