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Frances Kamm
Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University

Frances Kamm is the Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Her work focuses on normative ethical theory and practical ethics. She is the author of numerous articles and nine books, including Morality, Mortality vols. 1 and 2, Intricate Ethics, Bioethical Prescriptions, The Trolley Problem Mysteries (the Berkeley Tanner Lectures 2013), and Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead (all from Oxford University Press). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, centers for ethics at Harvard and Princeton, Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, and Department of Clinical Bioethics at the NIH. She serves on the editorial boards of Philosophy & Public Affairs, Legal Theory, and the Journal of Moral Philosophy and served as a consultant to the World Health Organization. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.