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Martha Craven Nussbaum (/ ˈ n ʊ s b ɔː m /; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosophy department.. Nussbaum's work has focused on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, existentialism, feminism ...
Martha C. Nussbaum received her BA from NYU and her MA and PhD from Harvard. She has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities and is currently the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Department of Philosophy and the Law School.
Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher known for her wide-ranging work in ancient and contemporary philosophy and for her philosophically informed contributions to current debates on human rights, social and transnational justice, feminism and women’s rights, multiculturalism, and the value of liberal arts education.
Jul 18, 2016 · Martha Nussbaum was preparing to give a lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, in April, 1992, when she learned that her mother was dying in a hospital in Philadelphia.
Aug 22, 2017 · Martha Nussbaum (1947 — present) is one of the world’s most influential living moral philosophers.. She has published on a wide range of topics, from tragedy and vulnerability, to religious tolerance, feminism and the role of the emotions in political life.Nussbaum’s work combines rigorous philosophy with insights from literature, history and law.
Apr 14, 2011 · 1. Introducing the capability approach 1.1 Background: Critique of other accounts. Although we can trace some aspects of the capability approach back to, among others, Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx (see Nussbaum 1988, 1992, 2020; Sen 1993a, 1999: 14, 24; Walsh 2000), it is economist-philosopher Amartya Sen who pioneered the approach and philosopher Martha Nussbaum and a growing number ...
Dec 5, 2022 · Over the course of her long career, the distinguished and highly decorated philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum has written key books about foundational human subjects: sex and gender, ethics, politics ...
Office. 773-702-0303 martha_nussbaum@law.uchicago.edu Program Affiliation. Center for Comparative Constitutionalism, Law and Philosophy Workshop, Animal Law Policy Initiative, Public Service and Public Interest Law, Public Interest Faculty Mentor Program
Global Ethics: Capabilities Approach. The capabilities approach is meant to identify a space in which we can make cross-cultural judgments about ways of life.
University of Chicago professor and philosopher Martha Nussbaum will deliver the 2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. The title of her talk, “Powerlessness and the Politics of Blame,” will cover the role of emotion in politics in order to explore the emotional dynamics at play in American and other societies today—including the ways in which uncertainty leads to the blaming of ...
