Carnegie Council

Thomas Pogge is professor of philosophy and international affairs at Yale University, research director in the Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, and adjunct professor in the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire. His books include Realizing Rawls (1989), John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice (2007), and World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms (second edition, 2008). He recently edited Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? (2007).

Previously, Pogge taught moral and political philosophy at Columbia University, after having received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University. Pogge is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. His work was supported, most recently, by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, All Souls College, Oxford, and the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda. He is currently Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University (an Australian Research Council-funded Special Research Centre).

Thomas Pogge formerly served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Council journal, Ethics & International Affairs, and was an Ethics and Debt Project participant.

Resources by this Author:

• Ethics Matter: A Conversation with Thomas Pogge (Video Clip)
• Ethics Matter: A Conversation with Thomas Pogge (Audio)
• Ethics Matter: A Conversation with Thomas Pogge (Transcript)
• Justice and the Convention on Biological Diversity [Abstract]
• Public Ethics Radio: Thomas Pogge on Pharmaceutical Innovation
• Public Ethics Radio: Thomas Pogge on Pharmaceutical Innovation
• Global Institutions and the Role of Resources
• World Poverty and Human Rights [Full Text]
• Severe Poverty as a Violation of Negative Duties [Excerpt]
• The First Millennium Development Goal
• "One World: The Ethics of Globalization," Peter Singer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002) and "World Poverty and Human Rights," Thomas Pogge (Cambridge: Polity, 2002)
• Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Ill Health [Excerpt]
• Unknown: The Extent, Distribution, and Trend of Global Income Poverty (PDF)
• Achieving Democracy [Abstract]

• Global Institutions and Responsibilies: Achieving Global Justice (2006, with Christian Barry)