Debra Satz

Debra M. sentence (* in New York) is an American philosopher and political scientist and professor of philosophy and political science at Stanford University, who has distinguished himself primarily as a moral and Wirtschaftsphilosophin.

Life and work

Sentence, who grew up as a child of a poor family in the Bronx, was interested in early mathematics and politics. She received in 1978 as an outstanding graduate of the academic degree of Bachelor of Arts ( BA) from the City College of New York and then studied at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT in Cambridge, MA, in Michael Walzer, Josh Cohen, Paul Horwich and George Boolos; inter alia, heard them there also lectures by John Rawls. With a dissertation on the role of moral values ​​in the Marxist theory of history, inspired by Gerald A. Cohen, she received her doctorate from MIT in 1987 Doctor ( Ph.D.). After working as a lecturer at Harvard and at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, she came to Stanford in 1988, where they have since in the fields of Philosophy and Political Science ( since 2007 as a full professor ) teaches and researches.

Sentence has been excellent in their academic career frequently, especially for their excellent teaching - even in the 1980s several times in Harvard ( Citation for Excellence in Teaching); In 2004 she received the Walter J. Gores then Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford's highest honor in this field.

Your frequently interdisciplinary contributions are based, among others in the fields of Political Philosophy, Normative ethics, equality and feminism.

Publications (selection)

  • Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Limits of Markets. Oxford University Press, 2010 German: . From goods and values. The power of the markets and why some things should not be for sale. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86854-262-2
  • Equality in Education and Weighted Student Funding. Education, Finance and Policy, 2008. Vol 3, No. 4, pp. 424-43
  • Equality, Adequacy and Education for Citizenship. Ethics 117, July 2007, pp. 623-48
  • Countering the Wrongs of the Past: the Role of Compensation, in: Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar, Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries. Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Liberalism, Economic Freedom and the Limits of Markets, Social Philosophy and Policy 24, 2007. Pp. 120-40
  • What do we owe the global poor? . Ethics and International Affairs, vol. 19, no 1, spring 2005. Pp. 47-54
  • Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction and the Family. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004
  • Child Labor: A Normative Perspective. World Bank Economic Review, 17 (2 ), 2003. Pp. 297-309
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