Elizabeth S. Anderson
Elizabeth S. Anderson (* 1959 ) is an American professor of philosophy and ethics .
Life
Anderson studied from 1977 to 1981 at Swarthmore College , where she earned her bachelor's degree in philosophy with a minor in economics . Between 1981 and 1987 she studied at Harvard University , where she graduated with a Masters degree in 1984 and a PhD in Philosophy in 1987 .
Today she teaches and researches as "Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Rawls Collegiate" Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor . Her main areas of research are the aspects of justice in political philosophy , democracy theory , but also feminist theories.
In 2008 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2020 she was elected to the British Academy as a foreign member . In 2019 she became a MacArthur Fellow .
After its publication in May 2019, your book Private Government immediately reached number 5 in the top 10 non-fiction book list of ZDF , Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Die Zeit . The reviewer Matthias Becker drew the conclusion from this that Anderson criticized some theoretical foundations of economic liberalism , while its democratic theoretical conclusions were "surprisingly tame".
Works (selection)
Books
- Value in Ethics and in Economics , Harvard University Press , 1993
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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) . Princeton University Press , 2017, ISBN 978-0-691-17651-2 .
- Private government. How employers rule over our lives (and why we don't talk about it) , from the American by Karin Wördemann, Suhrkamp , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-58727-0 .
items
- "Is Women's Labor a Commodity?", 1990 in Philosophy and Public Affairs
- "The Ethical Limitations of the Market", 1990 in Economics and Philosophy
- "John Stuart Mill and Experiments in Living", 1991 in Ethics
- "Feminist Epistemology: An Interpretation and Defense", 1995 in Hypatia
- "Knowledge, Human Interests, and Objectivity in Feminist Epistemology", 1995 in Philosophical Topics
- "The Democratic University: the Role of Justice in the Production of Knowledge", 1995 in Social Philosophy and Policy
- "What is the Point of Equality?", 1999 in Ethics
- "Integration, Affirmative Action, and Strict Scrutiny", 2002 in NYU Law Review
- "Sen, Ethics, and Democracy", 2003 in Feminist Economics
Web links
- Homepage on www-personal.umich
- “The modern company is a dictatorship” , interview with ES Anderson in Die Zeit , Bernd Kramer, February 14, 2019
supporting documents
- ^ The best non-fiction books in May 2019 , Deutschlandfunk Kultur from April 23, 2019, accessed May 12, 2019
- ^ "How employers rule over their employees" , Deutschlandfunk dated May 6, 2019, accessed May 12, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anderson, Elizabeth S. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |