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Larry S. Temkin
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Rutgers University

Larry S. Temkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Rutgers.  He graduated number one from the University of Wisconsin/Madison, before pursuing graduate studies at Oxford and Princeton.  Temkin is the author of Inequality, Rethinking the Good:  Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning, and Being Good in a World of Need (forthcoming).  Temkin delivered Oxford’s 2017 Uehiro Lectures, and has lectured for the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the NIH, and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.  Temkin’s individualistic approach to inequality has been adopted by the World Health Organization and the Gates Foundation in measuring the Global Burden of Disease.  Temkin has received fellowships from Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics, All Souls College, the NIH, the ANU, the National Humanities Center, the Danforth Foundation, Corpus Christi College Oxford, and Princeton’s Center for Human Values, where he was Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching.