Can academic philosophers work side by side with policymakers? Martha Nussbaum, a former Brown professor and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of ...

Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum, a philosopher whose prolific and influential contributions have made her one of the world’s leading public intellectuals, has been named the winner of the 2021 Holberg ...

I volunteer at a farm sanctuary, where our rescued animals get to live exactly as author Martha Nussbaum would like them to, in what she calls the Capabilities Approach (“People for the enlightened ...

The numbers say it all: Nearly two-thirds of global mammalian biomass is currently made up of livestock, the majority raised and killed in intolerably cruel factory farms. The domesticated chicken is ...

This article clarifies how the freedom of thought as a human right can be understood and promoted as a right of mental health service users, especially people with psychotic disorder, by using Martha ...

We talked to the philosopher about her recent book The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal and her thoughts on contemporary global politics. Last year, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of ...