BPR Interviews: Thomas Pogge
April 22, 2021
Thomas Pogge is the Director of the Global Justice Program and the Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. Pogge received his Ph.D. from Harvard University under the supervision of John Rawls. His widely published work has advanced the cause for global justice in the political theory community.
Alex & Ryan: You had John Rawls as your doctoral advisor. How has Rawls influenced you?
Thomas Pogge:
I would say profoundly. On the personal side, Rawls was a very kind, generous person very much a model for how to act with students and how to navigate within an academic environment. He was for my taste too humble, which was very unusual at that time at Harvard. People were mostly alpha males; at the extreme end was Robert Nozick, who would constantly interrupt you, thinking that he knew everything much better than you could know it. But Rawls was not like that at all; he was quite the opposite. When I wo
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