Thomas Pogge

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Thomas Pogge (2014)

Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (born August 13, 1953 ) is a professor of philosophy, particularly political philosophy and ethics.

Life

Pogge studied sociology in Hamburg and obtained his diploma in 1977 with a thesis on Peirce and Habermas . In 1983 he received his doctorate from Harvard University under John Rawls with a thesis on Kant , Rawls and global justice . From 1983 to 2006, Pogge was Assistant / Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University in New York . In 2006 he moved to the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. In 2008 he accepted a position in Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University .

Pogge has been Professorial Fellow at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University in Canberra since 2004 and Research Director at the Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo since 2007 . He is an external member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

philosophy

Thomas Pogge speaks in Munich about Academics Stand Against Poverty (2014)

Pogge's work focuses on ethics and political philosophy. He has published numerous papers on Kant, Rawls and issues of global justice. His book “World Poverty and Human Rights” is one of the most influential and widely discussed books on global justice. Central to Pogge's view of global justice is his understanding of human rights as negative obligations. This understanding is comprehensively explained and justified in “World Poverty and Human Rights”. Characteristic of Pogge's work is the bracketing of philosophical analysis and argumentation on the one hand and practical reform proposals that should lead to more justice on the other. One of his most important reform proposals in this regard is the Health Impact Fund (HIF), which he developed together with Aidan Hollis. The aim of the HIF initiative is to establish a new type of incentive system for research into and development of drugs, which should lead to better and fairer supply of vital drugs worldwide.

To combat global poverty, Pogge et al. a. proposed the system of a global commodity dividend.

Works

  • Realizing Rawls , Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1989
  • John Rawls , Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-406-34637-8
  • Human rights as moral demands on global institutions , in: S. Gosepath / G. Lohmann (Ed.): Philosophy of Human Rights, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1998, pp. 378-400, ISBN 978-3-518-28938-9
  • Global justice , Blackwell, Malden / Massachusetts 2001
  • International justice: a universalistic approach , in: Karl Graf Ballestrem (ed.), Internationale Gerechtigkeit, Leske & Budrich, Opladen 2001, 31-54, ISBN 978-3-8100-3039-9
  • World poverty and human rights: cosmopolitan responsibilities and reforms , Polity, Malden / Massachusetts 2002 (German translation by Anna Wehofsits: Weltarmut und Menschenrechte. Cosmopolitan responsibility and reforms , De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11 -017825-8 )
  • (with Christian Barry) Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice , Blackwell, Malden / Massachusetts 2006
  • (Editor) Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who owes what to the very poor? , New York, Oxford UP, 2007
  • (Editor with Darrel Moellendorf ) Global Justice: Seminal Essays: Global Responsibilities , Paragon House 2008
  • (Editor with Keith Horton) Global Ethics: Seminal Essays: II , Paragon House 2008
  • Justice in One World (= Culture in Discussion, Volume 15), Klartext Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0153-7
  • The Health Impact Fund: Making New Medicines Accessible for All , together with Aidan Hollis, Incentives for Global Health, 2008, http://www.healthimpactfund.org
  • Politics as Usual: What Lies behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric , Cambridge: Polity Press 2010

literature

  • Tim Hayward: "Thomas Pogge's Global Resource Dividend: A Critique and an Alternative". Journal of Moral Philosophy. Vol. 2 (3): 317-332

Web links

Commons : Thomas Pogge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See IGH homepage .
  2. ↑ Interview with Prof. Pogge on the global commodity dividend, Youtube
personal data
SURNAME Pogge, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1953