Professor Susan Hurley

Junior Research Fellow from 1981 to 1984; Two-Year Fellow from 2000 to 2002; Fifty-Pound Fellow from 2003 to 2007

16 September 1954 - 16 August 2007

Background

Professor of Philosophy, Bristol University (2006 to 2007)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (2003 to 2007)
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (2000 to 2002)
Social Science Research Fellowship, Nuffield Foundation (1997 to 1998)
Professor of Political and Ethical Theory, University of Warwick (1994 to 2006)
Senior Research Reader, British Academy (1990 to 1992)
Humanities Council Visiting Fellow, Princeton University (1988)
Lecturer, Harvard Law School (1987)
Meyer Visiting Professor, New York University (1987)
Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer in Philosophy, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1985 to 1994)
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley (1984)
Junior Research Fellow, and first woman Fellow, All Souls College (1981 to 1984)
Doctorate (DPhil) Thesis: Practical Reason: Deliberation, Coherence, Disagreement (1981 to 1984)
Postgraduate (BPhil) at St Catherine's College, Oxford (1977 to 1980)
Undergraduate, Princeton University (1972 to 1976)

Selected publications

Natural Reasons: Personality and Polity, a book about rationality (New York/ Oxford University Press, 1989), 462 pages. Selected by the journal Choice as one of its outstanding academic books of 1990-91. Paperback published 1992.
Foundations of Decision Theory: Issues and Advances (Oxford, Blackwell/ 1991), 344 pages, co-edited with Dr. M. O. L. Bacharach. Also co-author of editors' Introduction to this volume, Issues and Advances in the Foundations of Decision Theory , pp. 1-38; I was the primary author of the material on decision theory (as opposed to game theory) in this Introduction. Paperback published 1993.
On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993 (New York, Basic Books/ 1993), co-edited with Stephen Shute with profits to Amnesty International. Co-author of editors' Introduction, pp. 2-18. Translated into Italian 1995.
Consciousness in Action (Cambridge/ Harvard University Press/ 1998), British Academy Senior Research Readership (1990-92) project, 506 pages. Essays on the unity of consciousness and the interdependence of perception and action, which pursue issues raised by work of Kant and Wittgenstein in the context of contemporary neuropsychology.
Justice, Luck, and Knowledge (Harvard University Press, 2005) Exairunes and criticizes views that link justice to luck and responsibility in certain ways, and suggests an account of distributive justice that does not depend on such links.

Professor Richard Ericson