1. Ruth Chang is an American philosopher and legal scholar who serves as the Professor and Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of University College, Oxford, and a professor of philosophy.
14 Facts About Ruth Chang
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Ruth Chang was previously a professor at Rutgers University from 1998 to 2019.
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Ruth Chang is known for her research on the incommensurability of values and on practical reason and normativity.
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Ruth Chang is widely known for her work on decision-making and is lecturer or consultant on choice at institutions ranging from video-gaming to pharmaceuticals, the US Navy, World Bank, and CIA.
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Ruth Chang received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford in 1997.
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Ruth Chang was a Scot's Centenary Fellow in Scotland, which involved a lecture tour around Scotland.
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Ruth Chang's work has been recognized by a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award and an American Philosophical Association Op-ed Prize.
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Ruth Chang was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2021.
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Ruth Chang's work focuses on practical conflict, the nature of reasons and values and their relations, and rational agency.
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Ruth Chang is known for arguing that the structure of value is not what is commonly assumed: like space and time, which is not structured as we think it is, the normative and evaluative realm is not structured as we think it is.
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Ruth Chang has written on value pluralism and social choice.
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Ruth Chang has given various public lectures on decision-making, love, and commitment.
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Ruth Chang is the author of Making Comparisons Count, and the editor of the first volume on the topic of incommensurability of values in the Anglo-American world, Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason, and has authored articles and book chapters.
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Ruth Chang is widely known for her work on 'hard choices' and decision-making, and her research has been the subject of radio, newspaper, and magazine articles.