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T. M. Scanlon

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Gender Male
Age 83
Date of birth June 28,1940
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Indianapolis
Indiana
United States
Influenced by John Rawls
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Saul Kripke
Influenced Thomas Nagel
Derek Parfit
Christine Korsgaard
Pamela Hieronymi
Job Philosopher
Education Harvard University
University of Oxford
Princeton University
BooksWhy Does Inequality Matter?
Being Realistic about Reasons
Moral Dimensions
Political equality
The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy
Awards MacArthur Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Alma mater Princeton University
InterestsContractualism
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Thomas Michael "Tim" Scanlon, usually cited as T. M. Scanlon, is an American philosopher. At the time of his retirement in 2016, he was the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in Harvard University's Department of Philosophy, where he had taught since 1984.

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