Arthur Applbaum

Professor of Ethics and Public Policy
Director of Graduate Fellowships,
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Office Address
Taubman-218
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 98
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-8058
Fax: 617-496-6104
Email: arthur_applbaum@Harvard.Edu
Assistant
Erica Jaffe (617-496-0587)
Arthur Applbaum

Profile

Arthur Isak Applbaum is Professor of Ethics and Public Policy and Acting Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard. Applbaum's work on legitimate political authority, civil and official disobedience, and role morality has appeared in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Harvard Law Review, Ethics,and Legal Theory. He is the author of Ethics for Adversaries, a book about the morality of roles in public and professional life. Applbaum has written about the ethics of executioners and of butlers, and he has consulted to the government about the ethics of spies. Recent papers include Legitimacy in a Bastard Kingdom and Forcing a People to Be Free. He is a member of Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and chairs the ethics advisory board of a stem cell research foundation. Applbaum holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Jerusalem, a Fellow in Ethics at Harvard, and a Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values.

 

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Applbaum, Arthur Isak, Jon C. Tilburt, Michael T. Collins, and David Wendler. "A Family's Request for Complementary Medicine After Patient Brain Death." JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 299.18 (May 14, 2008): 2188-2193.
    • Applbaum, Arthur Isak. "Forcing a People to Be Free." Philosophy & Public Affairs 35.4 (Fall 2007): 359-400.