Harry Brighouse

Harry Brighouse is a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include the relationship between education and liberalism. His work on this topic has been widely cited by broadsheet newspapers, such as The Independent, and The Guardian.

His work has been published in The Independent, New Statesman, academic journals, and other newspapers and magazines. Brighouse has also written on justice more generally and on cosmopolitanism.

Brighouse received his B.A. from King's College London and earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Southern California, under the direction of Barbara Herman. He is the son of Tim Brighouse, former commissioner of schools for London.

Brighouse is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog.

He was a Carnegie Scholar chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2004 to work on a project entitled Educational Justice and Institutional Reform. He is also a Senior Adviser to the Spencer Foundation, a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to improving education through nonpartisan, high-quality academic research. Brighouse is also a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA).

Books

• Brighouse, Harry (2000). A level playing field: the reform of private schools. London: Fabian Society. ISBN 9780716330523.
• Brighouse, Harry (2000). School choice and social justice. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198295860.
• Brighouse, Harry (2003). School choice and social justice. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199257874.
• Brighouse, Harry (2004). Justice. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 9780745625966. Translated into Polish as Brighouse, Harry (2007). Sprawiedliwość. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sic. ISBN 9788360457306.
• Brighouse, Harry; Brock, Gillian (2005). The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521846608.
• Brighouse, Harry (2006). On education. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415327893.
• Brighouse, Harry (2007). Sprawiedliwość. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sic. ISBN 9788360457306.
• Brighouse, Harry; Robeyns, Ingrid (2010). Measuring justice: primary goods and capabilities. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781843156994.

Chapter in books

• Brighouse, Harry (1998), "School choice: theoretical considerations",in Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert (eds.), Recasting egalitarianism: new rules for communities, states, and markets, England: New York Verso, pp. 141–180, ISBN 9781859848630
• Brighouse, Harry (2007), "Schooling in a socialist society",in Anton, Anatole; Schmitt, Richard (eds.), Toward a new socialism, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 231–246, ISBN 9780739118627
• Brighouse, Harry (2009), "Moral and political aims of education",in Siegel, Harvey (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of education, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 35–51, ISBN 9780195312881
• Brighouse, Harry (2012), "Civility, citizenship, and the limits of schooling",in Mower, Deborah S; Robison, Wade L (eds.), Civility in politics and education, New York: Routledge, ISBN 9780415897259
• Brighouse, Harry; Unterhalter, Elaine (2013), "Primary goods, capabilities, and the millennium development target for gender equity in education",in Comim, Flavio; Nussbaum, Martha C (eds.), Capabilities, gender, equality: towards fundamental entitlements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 215–243, ISBN 9781107015692

Journals

• Brighouse, Harry (October 2001). "Can justice as fairness accommodate the disabled?". Social Theory and Practice. 27 (4): 537–560. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract200127433.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Brighouse, Harry (June 2007). "Equality of opportunity and complex equality: the special place of schooling". Res Publica. 13 (2): 147–158. doi:10.1007/s11158-007-9029-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Brighouse, Harry; Swift, Adam (May 2009). "Educational adequacy versus educational equality". Journal of Applied Philosophy. 26 (2): 117–128. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5930.2009.00438.x.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Brighouse, Harry; Wright, Erik Olin (September 2008). "Strong gender egalitarianism". Politics and Society. 36 (3): 360–372. doi:10.1177/0032329208320566.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Brighouse, Harry; Fleurbaey, Marc (June 2010). "Democracy and proportionality". Journal of Political Philosophy. 18 (2): 137–155. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9760.2008.00316.x.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Notable blog contributions

• Harry, (blog) (11 May 2004). "In defence of marriage?". Crooked Timber. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
• Harry, (blog) (27 August 2013). "J K Rowling for grown ups". Crooked Timber. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
• Harry, (blog) (3 December 2013). "Stereotype threat and philosophy's problem". Crooked Timber. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
• Harry, (blog) (30 March 2014). "Assigning one's own books to one's students". Crooked Timber. Retrieved 9 April 2014.