Professor Amartya Sen FBA

Economics Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1977
Subjects
Economics, Philosophy

Current post

Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Thomas W Lamont University Professor, Harvard University

Past appointments

Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow, Trinity College, CambridgeThomas W Lamont University Professor, Harvard University

2004 -

Trinity College University of Cambridge Master

1998 -

Harvard University Thomas W. Lamont University Professor

1987 -

University of Oxford Drummond Professor of Political Economy

1980 - 1987

Publications

Rationality and Freedom 2002

Collective choice and social welfare 1970

Choice, Welfare and Measurement 1982

Idea of Justice 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Christine Korsgaard FBA

Moral philosophy and its history; Kantian ethics; practical reason; the philosophy of action; personal identity; the ethics of our treatment of animals

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Professor Philip Kitcher FBA

Philosophy of science; philosophical issues in music and literature; systematic version of pragmatism

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Professor Dr Rahel Jaeggi FBA

Social philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, philosophical anthropology, social ontology, and critical theory

Rahel Jaeggi FBA (credit Marvin Ester)

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