Gwen Bradford
Associate Professor and Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
Gwen Bradford is an associate professor and the Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy. She holds a PhD from Yale University.
Bradford joined the University in Toronto after more than a decade at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and has been a Faculty Fellow at Princeton University, the Human Abilities Research Centre in Berlin and the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. She works primarily in value theory, and her work on topics including well-being, pain, difficulty and uniqueness has been published in journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, Noûs, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics. Her book, Achievement (Oxford University Press, 2015) was awarded the Book Prize of the American Philosophical Association. Her current main project looks at uniqueness — what it is, and why, if at all, it matters.