Harvard Professor and author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do?, Michael Sandel challenges us to examine the moral assumptions underlying our debated political and social issues. The Washington Post called him “perhaps the most prominent college professor in America.”
A professor of political philosophy at Harvard for thirty years, Sandel’s wildly popular course, "Justice," has enrolled over 14,000 students and is now a widely produced multimedia event presented on television and online. His latest book, Justice, based on the course, discusses contemporary moral issues and classic philosophical texts, illustrating the values and virtues that lie beneath our ethical dilemmas. Publishers Weekly described it as “erudite, conversational and deeply humane – truly transformative reading.”
Sandel served on the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002-2005, appointed by the President to examine the ethical implications of new biomedical technologies. He explores the connection between science and ethics in his course "Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature," and his book The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering examines the moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Booklist said “an illuminating ethical analysis of stem-cell research concludes this stellar work of public philosophy.”
A recipient of the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, Sandel was recognized by the American Political Science Association for a career of excellence in teaching. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, Sandel is a graduate of Brandeis University where he received his doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Author, Justice