Frances Kamm

Frances Kamm
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Ethics, bioethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy, Kantianism

Frances M. Kamm (/kæm/) is an American philosopher specialising in normative and applied ethics. At Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kamm is currently the Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2003, she was on the faculty of New York University and also worked as an ethics consultant for the World Health Organisation. She is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution in Garrison, New York.

In August 2007, Professor Kamm delivered the annual Oslo Lecture in Moral Philosophy. In 2008, she delivered the Uehiro Lectures at Oxford University in England. In 2011, Kamm was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as an ethics consultant. In 2013, she delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Kamm teaches the Gamma Cohort of the 2017 Harvard Kennedy School MPP program.

She is a member of the editorial boards of Philosophy & Public Affairs, Legal Theory, Bioethics, and Utilitas.

Professor Kamm has held ACLS, AAUW, and Guggenheim fellowships, and has been a Fellow of the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School, the Center for Human Values at Princeton, and the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford.

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