Alison Hills is a British philosopher who specializes in moral philosophy, epistemology, and animal ethics.
Hills is Professor of Philosophy at St John's College, Oxford.[1] She obtained her PhD in philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge. She was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. Hills lectured in philosophy at Bristol University from 2003 to 2006 before moving to St John's College, Oxford in 2006.[1]
In September 2017 Hills was a member of the expert panel discussing Kant's Categorical Imperative on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.[2]
In 2005, Hills authored the book Do Animals Have Rights? The book was positively reviewed by Benjamin Hale as "carv[ing] a centre path between the so-called ‘extreme’ animal rights view and the view which sees no merit in the claim that animals have rights".[3]
Selected publications
editArticles
edit- Animal Responsibilities (The New Statesman, 2008)
Books
edit- Hills, Alison (2005), Do Animals Have Rights?, Icon Books, ISBN 978-1840466232
- Hills, Alison; Press, Oxford University (2012), The Beloved Self: Morality and the Challenge from Egoism, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199655168
- Hills, Alison (2016), "Gesinnung: responsibility, moral worth, and character", in Michalson, Gordon E (ed.), Kant's Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: A Critical Guide, Cambridge critical guides, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1107018525
References
edit- ^ a b "Professor Alison Hills". St John's College.
- ^ "Kant's Categorical Imperative, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
- ^ Hale, Benjamin (2008). "Do Animals Have Rights? – Alison Hills". The Philosophical Quarterly. 58 (231): 379–382. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.559_5.x.
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