T. M. Scanlon

Thomas Michael ( " Tim " ) Scanlon ( born June 28, 1940 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American moral philosopher. He is Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Politics at the Institute of Philosophy at Harvard University.

Scanlon is the son of a lawyer, by whom he already acquired basic knowledge about general questions of constitutional law in the young.

While studying philosophy at Princeton University, he dealt primarily with logic and the philosophy of mathematics. His thesis he wrote in 1962 with Paul Benacerraf. In 1963, and a year long studied at Oxford University, for which he received a Fulbright scholarship. Here he heard especially Michael Dummett and dealt for the first time intensively with Immanuel Kant He subsequently moved to Harvard in 1963, where he met the one hand, John Rawls, on the other hand, at Burton Dreben with a thesis on proof theory in 1968 received his doctorate.

As early as 1966 he was a lecturer at Princeton, where he was appointed in 1977 professor. In 1984 he accepted a professorship at Harvard University, where in 1988 he obtained the post of Professor Alford.

From about 1974 he moved the focus of his work almost exclusively on the area of ​​ethics and political philosophy. One of his most important contributions to the research introduces its new version of contractualism dar. He stands in the tradition of John Rawls, Immanuel Kant and Jean -Jacques Rousseau.

Scanlon is co-editor of the journal Philosophy and Public Affairs, and was in 2002 president of the American Philosophical Association ( Eastern Division ). In 1993 he was MacArthur Fellow.

Scanlon is married, has two daughters and is the father of the philosopher and African explorer Tommie Shelby.

Works

  • The Diversity of Objections to Inequality, Kansas, 1997
  • What We Owe to Each Other, Harvard University Press ( 1998) ( Review of Thomas Nagel )
  • The Difficulty of Tolerance, Cambridge University Press ( 2003)
  • Political Equality / Political Equality, plain text (2005), ISBN 978-3-89861-432-0 ( edited with additional contributions by Rainer Forst, Herlinde Pauer -Studer, Gesine Schwan, among others. Julian Nida- Rümelin and Thierse )
  • Moral Dimensions: permissibility, Meaning, Blame, Harvard University Press ( 2008)
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