Harry Brighouse

Harry Brighouse is the Mildred Fish-Harnack Professor of Philosophy and the Carol Dickson-Bascom Professor of the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is also an affiliate professor of educational policy studies and director of the Center for Ethics and Education at UW–Madison. Brighouse's research spans political philosophy, philosophy of education, and educational policy. He is author of several books, including School Choice and Social Justice, On Education, Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (with Adam Swift), and, most recently Educational Goods: Values and Evidence in Decision-Making (with Helen Ladd, Susanna Loeb, and Adam Swift). With Michael McPherson he co-edited The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice, which won the Frederick Ness prize for contribution to understanding of liberal education. He is also a founding member of, and contributor to, the well-known academic blog, Crooked Timber. Brighouse received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Southern California.

updated 2025