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Research Interests: ethics, history of ethics, theories of justice and equality, and political
philosophy

T.M. Scanlon is Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. He
received his B.A. from Princeton in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Harvard. In between, he studied for
a year at Oxford as a Fulbright Fellow. He taught at Princeton from 1966 before coming to
Harvard in 1984.

Professor Scanlon's dissertation and some of his first papers were in mathematical logic, but
the bulk of his teaching and writing has been in moral and political philosophy. He has
published papers on freedom of expression, the nature of rights, conceptions of welfare, and
theories of justice, as well as on foundational questions in moral theory. His teaching in the
department has included courses on theories of justice, equality, and recent ethical theory.

Donna Hardina

Professor

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Education

B.A., Northeastern Illinois University

M.A., University of Chicago

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

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Martha Albertson Fineman is Robert W. Woodruff Professor. An internationally recognized law

and society scholar, Fineman is a leading authority on family law and feminist jurisprudence.

Anna Grear is Professor of Law at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. She has a particular
interest in the relationship between human rights and “the environment,” locating these in
relation to contemporary globalization and a concern with the implications of lively materiality
and the need for a new way of looking at “who’s here.”

Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating
Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate
human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.

Jessica Dixon Weaver is an Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University (“SMU”)

Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas. She teaches in the areas of family and children and the
law, as well as professional responsibility.