T. M. Scanlon

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Thomas Michael ("Tim") Scanlon (1940 - ) is the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in Harvard University's Department of Philosophy. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard under Burton Dreben, studied for a year at Oxford University on a Fulbright Scholarship, and taught for many years at Princeton University. His early work was in proof theory, but he soon made his name in moral and political philosophy, where he developed a version of contractualism that is similar to that of John Rawls, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He is the author of a number of articles and books on ethics and moral theory and is generally considered to be one of the most important moral philosophers working at this time.

Scanlon is the father-in-law of philosopher and scholar of Africana Studies Tommie Shelby.

[edit] Selected works

• What We Owe to Each Other, Harvard University Press (1998)
• The Difficulty of Tolerance, Cambridge University Press (2003)

[edit] External links

• The Department of Philosophy at Harvard