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Debra M. Satz (* 1956 in New York ) is an American philosopher and political scientist as well as professor of philosophy and political science at Stanford University , who has made a name for herself above all as a moral and economic philosopher .

Live and act

Growing up in a poor family in the Bronx , Satz took an early interest in math and politics. She received in 1978 as an outstanding graduate of the academic degree of Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the City College of New York and then studied at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy of MIT in Cambridge, MA, with Michael Walzer , Josh Cohen , Paul Horwich and George Boolos ; u. a. she also heard lectures from John Rawls there . With a dissertation on the role of moral values ​​in the Marxist theory of history, inspired by Gerald A. Cohen , she received her doctorate ( Ph.D. ) from MIT in 1987 . After teaching at Harvard and at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, she came to Stanford in 1988 , where she has been teaching and researching in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science (since 2007 as full professor).

Satz has received several awards in her academic career, especially in the 1980s several times at Harvard for “excellent teaching” ( Citation for Excellence in Teaching ). In 2004 she received the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching , Stanford's highest honor in this field. In 2018 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Her often interdisciplinary contributions are located in the areas of political philosophy , normative ethics , equal opportunities and feminism .

Publications (selection)

  • Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Limits of Markets . Oxford University Press, 2010. German: Of goods and values. The power of markets and why some things shouldn't be for sale . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-86854-262-2
  • Equality in Education and Weighted Student Funding . Education, Finance and Policy, 2008. Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 424-43
  • Equality, Adequacy and Education for Citizenship . Ethics 117, July 2007, pp. 623-48
  • Countering the Wrongs of the Past: the Role of Compensation , in: Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar, Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries . Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Liberalism, Economic Freedom and the Limits of Markets , Social Philosophy and Policy 24, 2007. pp. 120-40
  • What do we owe the global poor? . Ethics and International Affairs, vol. 19, no. 1, spring 2005. pp. 47-54
  • Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction and the Family . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 2004
  • Child Labor: A Normative Perspective . World Bank Economic Review, 17 (2), 2003. pp. 297-309

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Wells, Rutger Claassen: Ethics, economics, and markets: an interview with Debra Satz , in: Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2010
  2. ↑ Entry of the dissertation in WorldCat
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed October 7, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Sentence, Debra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sentence, Debra M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH new York