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Thomas Pogge, PhD

Leitner Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science
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Leitner Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science

Biography

Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science as well as co-founder of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network aiming to enhance the impact of scholars, teachers and students on global poverty, and of Incentives for Global Health, a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org). His recent publications include Designing in Ethics, co-edited, Cambridge 2017; Global Tax Fairness, co-edited, Oxford 2016; Politics as Usual, Polity 2010; World Poverty and Human Rights, 2nd edition, Polity 2008; Global Justice and Global Ethics, co-edited, Paragon House 2008; John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice, Oxford 2007; and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right, edited, Oxford & UNESCO 2007. More information at https://campuspress.yale.edu/thomaspogge/

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Education & Training

PhD
Harvard University, Philosophy (1983)
BA
Hamburg University, Soziologie (1977)

Research

Publications

Others

  • John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice, New York: Oxford University Press 2007; Chinese translation by Gu Su and Liu Xuemei (Beijing: Renmin University Press 2009)
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • “Making War on Terrorists ? Reflections on Harming the Innocent” in Journal of Political Philosophy 16/1 (2008)
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • “Growth and Inequality: Understanding Recent Trends and Political Choices” in Dissent 55/1 (Winter 2008), 66-75
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • “Human Rights and Global Health: A Research Program” in Metaphilosophy 36 (2005), 182-209
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Kant, Rawls and Global Justice, Chinese translation by Liu Xin and Xu Xiangdong (Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House 2009)
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms (Cambridge: Polity Press 2002 and expanded second edition 2008), translations into Spanish and Turkish; Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and German
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • “The Incoherence between Rawls’s Theories of Justice” in Fordham Law Rev. 72 (2004), 1739-59
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Politics as Ususal: What Lies behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric (Cambridge: Polity Press 2009).
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Hacer justicia a la humanidad, Spanish translation by David Álvarez García (Ciudad de Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica 2009); The Health Impact Fund: Making New Medicines Accessible for All, authored with Aidan Hollis (Incentives for Global Health, 2008)
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

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