Thomas Pogge

Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge ( born 1953 ) is professor of philosophy, especially political philosophy and ethics.

Life

Pogge studied sociology in Hamburg and received his diploma in 1977 with a dissertation on Peirce and Habermas. In 1983 he received his doctorate from Harvard University with John Rawls with a theme about Kant, Rawls and Global Justice. Then Pogge was from 1983 to 2006 as an Assistant / Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University in New York. In 2006, he joined the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. In 2008 he accepted a call of Philosophy and International Affairs ( Philosophy and International Affairs ) at Yale University.

Pogge is in Nature, University of Oslo since 2004 Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University in Canberra, and since 2007 Research Director at the Centre for the Study of Mind.

Philosophy

Pogge's work focuses on ethics and political philosophy. He has published numerous works on Kant, Rawls and issues of global justice. His book, " World Poverty and Human Rights " (Eng. " World Poverty and Human Rights " ) is one of the most influential and most discussed books on global justice. Central to Pogge's conception of global justice is his understanding of human rights as negative obligations. Eben This understanding is fully explained and justified in 'World Poverty and Human Rights ". Characteristic of Pogge's work is the interlocking of philosophical analysis and reasoning on the one hand and practical reform proposals that would lead to more justice, on the other hand. One of his most important reform proposals in this sense, the Health Impact Fund, which he has co-developed with Aidan Hollis. Target of HIF- initiative is the establishment of a novel incentive system for the research and development of drugs, which should lead to a better and more equitable supply of essential medicines worldwide.

Works

  • Realizing Rawls, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1989
  • John Rawls, Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-406-34637-8
  • Human rights as moral claims in global institutions, in: S. Gosepath / G. Lohmann (eds.): Philosophy of human rights, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1998, pp. 378-400, ISBN 978-3-518-28938-9
  • Global justice, Blackwell, Malden / Massachusetts 2001
  • International Justice: A universalist approach, in: Karl Graf Ballestrem (ed.), International Justice, Leske & Budrich, Opladen 2001, 31-54, ISBN 978-3-8100-3039-9
  • World poverty and human rights: cosmopolitan responsibilities and Reforms, Polity, Malden / Massachusetts 2002 (English translation v. Anna Wehofsits: World Poverty and Human Rights Cosmopolitan responsibilities and reforms, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11. -017825-8 )
  • ( with Christian Barry ) Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice, Blackwell, Malden / Massachusetts 2006
  • (Editor ), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who owes what to the very poor, New York, Oxford UP, 2007?
  • (Editor with Darrel Moellendorf ) Global Justice: Seminal Essays: Global Responsibilities, Paragon House 2008
  • (Editor with Keith Horton ) Global Ethics: Seminal Essays: II, Paragon House, 2008
  • Justice in a world ( = culture in the discussion, Volume 15 ), plain text Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0153-7
  • The Health Impact Fund: Making New Medicines Accessible for All, along with Aidan Hollis, Incentives for Global Health, 2008 http://www.healthimpactfund.org
  • Politics as Usual: What Lies behind the Pro- Poor Rhetoric, Cambridge: Polity Press 2010
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