Frances Kamm

Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy
Kennedy School
Office Address
Rubenstein-108
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 57
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-384-9808
Email: Frances_Kamm@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Camiliakumari Wankaner (617-495-5994)
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Frances M. Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy. She is the author of Creation and Abortion; Morality, Mortality, Vol. 1: Death and Whom to Save From It; Morality, Mortality, Vol. 2: Rights, Duties, and Status; and Intricate Ethics. Kamm also has published many articles on normative ethical theory and practical ethics. She has held ACLS, AAUW, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships and has been a Fellow of the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School, the Center for Human Values at Princeton, and the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford. She is a member of the editorial boards of Philosophy & Public Affairs, Legal Theory, Bioethics, and Utilitas and was a consultant on ethics to the World Health Organization.

 

Courses

Spring

Fall

  • API-601 The Responsibilities of Public Action

Not Offered

  • API-609 Nonconsequentialist Ethical Theory and Aspects of Consequentialism

Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Book Chapters
    • Kamm, Frances. "Moral Issues in Rationing Scarce Resources." Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy. Ed. Laurence Thomas. Blackwell, 2007.
    • Kamm, Frances. "Brody on Passive and Active Euthanasia." Pluralistic Casuistry: Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and Political Theory. Ed. Mark J. Cherry and Ana Smith Iltis. Springer, 2007.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Kamm, Frances. "What Is and Is Not Wrong with Enhancement?" DeCamp Bioethics Lecture, Princeton University, December 2007.
    • Kamm, Frances. "Enhancement." Presentation, Harvard Law School, November 2007.
    • Kamm, Frances. "Intra and Inter-personal Aggregation." Center for Philosophy and Social Policy, Bowling Green, Ohio, November 2007.
    • Kamm, Frances. "Is Bioethics Relevant to New Medical Advances?" Aspen Health Forum, Aspen, Colorado, October 2007.
    • Kamm, Frances. “Terrorism and Intending Evil." Conference paper: Moral Philosophy Conference, Brugges; Annual Oslo Lecture on Moral Philosophy; Conference on War in the 21st Century, Georgia State University, 2007.
    • Kamm, Frances. "Response to Critics of Intricate Ethics." American Philosophical Association Panel on Intricate Ethics, San Francisco, April 2007.
    • Kamm, Frances. "Could Distance Affect the Duty to Aid?" World Bank Conference, Washington, D. C., February 2007.
    • Kamm, Frances. "The Doctrines of Double and Triple Effect." Law and Philosophy Seminar, Georgetown University Law School, February 2007.
  • Reviews
    • Kamm, Frances. Review of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life, by Jeff McMahan. Philosophical Review, 116 April 2007: 273-280.