Professor Tim Scanlon

Tim Scanlon is Alford Professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity at Harvard University. He earned his BA at Princeton and his PhD at Harvard, before teaching at Princeton from 1966 to 1984.
Tim has written on a wide variety of topics in moral and political philosophy, including rights, welfare, equality and the nature of morality. His books include What We Owe to Each Other and The Difficulty of Tolerance. His most recent work, Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame, was published by Harvard University Press in September 2008.