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2005-2006 Fellows

Judith Lichtenberg

University of Maryland
Department of Philosophy      Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy

Judith Lichtenberg holds a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland.  She writes and teaches in ethics and political philosophy, with special interests in international and domestic justice, higher education, and the mass media.  She is co-author (with Robert K. Fullinwider) of Leveling the Playing Field: Justice, Politics, and College Admissions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).

Project Summary

For the last thirty years philosophers have considered what moral obligations the rich have to the poor (in their own society or outside it) and what rights the poor have against the rich.  Lichtenberg’s book project, The Moral Psychology of Giving and Receiving and Its Implications for Political Philosophy, investigates the moral and psychological demands the practices of giving and receiving make on donors and recipients, and explores implications for an adequate view of human rights and the morality of assistance.