Frances Myrna Kamm is Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. She is also Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. At New York University, Kamm is Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy. Her research examines ethical theory and practical ethics. She is the author of Creation and Abortion (1992), Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm (2007), Ethics for Enemies: Terror, Torture, & War (2011) and, most recently, Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead (2020). She has worked on the moral justification of abortion, the trolley problem, and physician-assisted suicide. Kamm has held a number of prestigious fellowships, including the ACLS, AAUW, and Guggenheim fellowships, and has been a Fellow of the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School, the Center for Human Values at Princeton, and the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford. She was a consultant on ethics to the World Health Organization. She has delivered invited lectures at Oxford, Harvard, the London School of Economics, and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2011.
Her Dunning Trust lecture was co-sponsored by the Brockington Visitorship at Queen’s.