Cosmopolitan War

Date
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Event Sponsor
The Munro Lectureship Fund and The Lane Center
Speaker

Cecile Fabre

 

 

Biography

Professor Cecile Fabre is a political and moral philosopher whose work is located in Anglo-American normative thought. She is a tutorial fellow in Philosophy at Lincoln College, and a lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy, at Oxford University. Prior to moving to Oxford,  Professor Fabre held the Chair in Political Theory at Ednburgh University, and was a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the London School of Economics.  She has a particular interest in contemporary analytical political philosophy on the one hand, and seventeenth and eighteenth century political thought on the other hand.  She has published widely in subfields such as theories of distributive justice, theories of democracy, and righs (in particular the rights we have over our own body.) At present,  Professor Fabre is writing a book on the ethics of war from a cosmopolitan perspective, and working on separate articles on the ethics of killing.