Current Fellows & Scholars
Scholar
- Faculty Fellow, 1989-1990
- Faculty Associate, 2003-
- Senior Scholar, 2003-2006, 2008-2010
Professor Kamm specializes in normative ethical theory and problems in practical ethics related to medicine and law. She has received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Association of University Women, Columbia Law School, the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard, the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. She is a member of the editorial boards of Philosophy & Public Affairs, Utilitas, Legal Theory, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Bioethics, and the advisory board of Routledge International Library of Philosophy and the international advisory board of the Uehiro Center for Ethics, Oxford University. She serves on the steering committee of the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health. Her most recent publication is Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harms, Oxford Ethics Series (2006). She is also the author of Creation and Abortion (Oxford, 1992); Morality, Mortality, vols. I and II (Oxford, 1993, 1996); "Nonconsequentialism, the Person as an End-In-Itself and the Significance of Status" (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 1992); "Abortion and the Value of Life: A Discussion of Life's Dominion" (Columbia Law Review, 1995); "A Right to Choose Death?" (Boston Review, 1997); "Failures of Just War Theory" (Ethics, 2005); and "Terrorism and Several Moral Distinctions" (Legal Theory, 2006).
Professor Kamm was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics (1989-1990), and has been a Senior Scholar in Ethics (2003-2006 and 2008-2009). She has been a Faculty Associate of the Ethics Center since 2003.
- Faculty Associate, 2004-
- Senior Scholar, 2009-2010
Professor Shelby is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Florida A & M University (1990) and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (1998). Prior to coming to Harvard in 2000, he taught philosophy at Ohio State University (1996-2000). His main areas of research and teaching focus on racial and economic justice and on the history of black political thought.
Professor Shelby is the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Harvard, 2005) and coeditor (with Derrick Darby) of Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Open Court, 2005). Other recent publications include "Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto," Philosophy & Public Affairs (2007); "Race and Social Justice: Rawlsian Considerations," Fordham Law Review (2004); "Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African American Identity," with Lionel K. McPherson, Philosophy & Public Affairs (2004); "Ideology, Racism, and Critical Social Theory," The Philosophical Forum (2003); "Parasites, Pimps, and Capitalists: A Naturalistic Conception of Exploitation," Social Theory and Practice (2002); and "Foundations of Black Solidarity: Collective Identity or Common Oppression?" Ethics (2002). He is also the coeditor of the journal Transition.
His current book project, tentatively entitled "Justice and the Dark Ghetto," investigates the questions of justice that arise when thinking systematically about problems of race and urban poverty.
Professor Shelby has been a Faculty Associate of the Ethics Center since 2004, and will be a Senior Scholar in Ethics in 2009-2010.