Braybrooke

Braybrooke, David
Professor Emeritus






Office: WAG 413, MEZ 3.206
Office Hours: By appt.
Phone: 471-5387, 232-7281
braybrooked@yahoo.com
Education: BA Harvard, MA, PhD Cornell

Research interests:
His research ranges widely over problems in ethics, social philosophy, and philosophy of social science, with a particular focus on how ethical ideas are applied in deliberation about social policies. Among his many publications are the books A Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process (Free Press, 1963, with Charles Lindblom), Meeting Needs (Princeton, 1987), Philosophy of Social Science (Prentice-Hall, 1987), Logic on the Track of Social Change (Oxford, 1995, with others), Natural Law Modernized (2001), Utilitarianism:Restorations; Repairs; Renovations (2004), and Analytical Political Philosophy: From Discourse, Edification (2006). Before coming to Texas, he taught at Yale, Dalhousie, and the Universities of Michigan, Pittsburgh, and Toronto, and also served as President of the Canadian Philosophical Association. He serves on the editorial board of Public Affairs Quarterly.

Courses taught:
Ethics, political philosophy

Field(s) of Study: Ethics and Philosophy of Law