Gillian Greenwall Brock is a New Zealand philosophy and ethics academic. She is currently a full professor at the

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and fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics,

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Academic career

After obtaining a BSc and BA(Hons) at the

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, Brock completed her

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in 1993. Her thesis was titled '' 'On the moral importance of needs' ''. She moved to the

and rose to full professor. In 2018, Brock was elected a

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. Brock's work relates to the ethical obligations we have to meet the needs of others and has written on issues such as the ' brain drain' and

global justice Global justice is an issue in political philosophy arising from the concern about unfairness. It is sometimes understood as a form of internationalism. Global justice and international justice may be distinguished in that the latter is concern ...

Selected works

* Brock, Gillian. ''Global justice: A cosmopolitan account''.

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, 2009. * Brock, Gillian, and

Harry Brighouse Harry Brighouse is a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include moral philosophy and the relationship between education and liberalism. Brighouse is particularly famous for his book wi ...

, eds. ''The political philosophy of

cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all human beings are members of a single community. Its adherents are known as cosmopolitan or cosmopolite. Cosmopolitanism is both prescriptive and aspirational, believing humans can and should be " world citizen ...

''.

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, 2005, . * Brock, Gillian. ''Necessary Goods: our responsibilities to meet others needs''.

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, 1998. * Benatar, Solomon, and Gillian Brock, eds. ''Global health and global health ethics''.

, 2011. * Brock, Gillian, and Michael Blake. ''Debating brain drain: may governments restrict emigration?''.

, 2014.

References

External links

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