James Griffin (philosopher)

James Patrick Griffin (born 1933) is an American-born philosopher, who was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2000.

Life

Griffin was educated at Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut before studying at Yale University, obtaining a BA in 1955. He was then a Rhodes Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1955–58), then a Senior Scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford (1958–60), obtaining his doctorate in 1960. After lecturing at Christ Church, Oxford from 1960 to 1966, he was appointed a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford in 1966, a position he held until 1996. He was then appointed White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, becoming a Fellow of Corpus Christi College; he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Keble in 1996, and is now also an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi.^[1] In 2000 Griffin became Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and in 2002 Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Australia in Canberra. His publications include: - Wittgenstein’s Logical Atomism (1964); - 'Well-Being: its meaning, measurement and moral importance (1986); - Value Judgement: Improving Our Ethical Beliefs (1998); - On Human Rights (2008), all published by Clarendon Press in Oxford.^[1]

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