Harry Brighouse

Curriculum Writer and Facilitator

Professor Harry Brighouse regularly teaches classes in applied ethics, political philosophy, and ethics, and he teaches a class for the First Year Interest Group program on Children and the Family every three years. His research interests include all those topics, as well as the philosophy of education. He has an abiding interest in education (including higher education) policy and practice.

His recent books include (with Helen Ladd, Susanna Loeb, and Adam Swift) Educational Goods: Values and Evidence in Decision-Making (University of Chicago Press 2018) and (with Adam Swift) Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (Princeton University Press, 2014). He co-edited The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2015) with Michael McPherson, 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.

He directs the Center for Ethics and Education, and is a regular contributor to the group blog Crooked Timber. His strangest accomplishment is an uncredited appearance in the Ken Loach movie Bread and Roses.