Gillian Brock
New Zealand philosopher
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Gillian Greenwall Brock FRSNZ is a New Zealand philosophy and ethics academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland and fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.[1][2]
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Academic career
After obtaining a BSc and BA(Hons) at the University of Cape Town, Brock completed her PhD at Duke University in 1993. Her thesis was titled 'On the moral importance of needs' . She moved to the University of Auckland and rose to full professor.[1] In 2018, Brock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[3]
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'[4][5] and global justice.[1]
Selected works
- Brock, Gillian. Global justice: A cosmopolitan account. Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Brock, Gillian, and Harry Brighouse, eds. The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-52184-660-8.
- Brock, Gillian. Necessary Goods: our responsibilities to meet others needs. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.
- Benatar, Solomon, and Gillian Brock, eds. Global health and global health ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Brock, Gillian, and Michael Blake. Debating brain drain: may governments restrict emigration?. Oxford University Press, 2014.
