Thomas Pogge
Thomas Pogge Thomas Pogge (2014) Born Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (1953-08-13) 13 August 1953 (age 61) Nationality German Alma mater Harvard University Notable work(s) Realizing Rawls Awards 2013 Gregory Kavka Prize in political philosophy Institutions Yale University Main interests John Rawls Immanuel Kant Influences John Rawls Immanuel Kant Website thomaspogge.com Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (born 13 August 1953), is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. In addition to his Yale appointment, he is the Research Director of the Centre for the Study of the Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire's Centre for Professional Ethics. Pogge is also an editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Pogge received his Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation supervised by John Rawls. Since then he has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including various books on John Rawls and global justice.