Ruth Chang
Ruth Chang | |
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Chang at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics in 2016 | |
| Born | Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Education | Dartmouth College (BA) Harvard University (JD) Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil) |
| Thesis | Incomparability and practical reason (1997) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | Balliol College, Oxford Rutgers University University College, Oxford |
| Main interests | Normative ethics, metaethics, action theory, moral psychology |
Ruth Chang is an American philosopher and legal scholar who serves as the Professor and Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of University College, Oxford, and a professor of philosophy. She was previously a professor at Rutgers University from 1998 to 2019. She is known for her research on the incommensurability of values and on practical reason and normativity. She is also widely known for her work on decision-making and is lecturer or consultant on choice at institutions ranging from video-gaming to pharmaceuticals, the U.S. Navy, World Bank, and CIA.