Brenda Almond

Brenda Margaret Almond (née Cohen; 19 September 1937)[1] is a British philosopher, known for her work on philosophy of education and applied ethics. She is an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Brenda Almond
Born
Brenda Almond

(1937-09-19) 19 September 1937
Liverpool, England
Alma materUniversity College London
Notable work
Education and the Individual (1981), Moral Concerns (1987), The Philosophical Quest (1990), Exploring Ethics: A Traveller's Tale (1998)
AwardsHonorary D. Phil (1998), Utrecht University
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolMoral philosophy
Main interests
Moral philosophy, Philosophy of education, bioethics, Applied philosophy
Notable ideas
Philosophy as a guide to practical public policy; liberalism and philosophy of education

Biography

Almond co-founded the Society for Applied Philosophy in 1982,[2][3] and co-founded the International Journal of Applied Philosophy. As of 2022, Almond is a professor emeritus at Hull University.[4]

Almond wrote her first book, Education and the Individual, when she was in her thirties, and went on to write Moral Concerns, The Philosophical Quest and Exploring Ethics: A Traveller's Tale and The Fragmenting Family. As well as being a philosophy professor, Almond has sought to present her particular view of individual rights to a wider public.[5][6] She has argued regularly for maintenance of the “welfare of the child provision” when legislation was crafted to reflect the changing technologies of birth[7] and raised ethical issues surrounding the use of human embryos.[8] Ailsa Stevens wrote in an article that appeared in BioNews that Almond, "felt that anxieties over hybrid embryo research had been fuelled by confusion over the definition of an embryo".[9]

Selected publications
  • Almond, Brenda (2020). EDUCATION AND THE INDIVIDUAL. [S.l.]: ROUTLEDGE. ISBN 978-1-000-28728-8. OCLC 1253354597.
  • Almond, Brenda (1987). Moral concerns. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International. ISBN 0-391-03372-7. OCLC 12908784.
  • Almond, Brenda (1996). Exploring philosophy : the philosophical quest. Brenda Almond (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19485-1. OCLC 30892338.
  • Almond, Brenda (1998). Exploring ethics : a traveller's tale. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 0-631-19952-7. OCLC 37559734.
  • Almond, Brenda (2006). The fragmenting family. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-1-4294-6006-4. OCLC 86074077.

Awards and honors

She was awarded an Honorary doctorate by the University of Utrecht in 1998.[4] In 1999 she was named an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[10]

References
  1. Publications, Europa (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-85743-179-7.
  2. "Brenda Almond | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs". Carnegiecouncil.org. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  3. "4 'Where to draw the line?' Mary Warnock, embryos and moral expertise", The making of British bioethics, Manchester University Press, 2014, doi:10.7228/manchester/9781847798879.7, ISBN 9781847798879, retrieved 22 March 2022
  4. "Professor emerita Brenda Almond - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  5. Fordham, Alice. "Edinbugh Books Festival: small in area but wide in range". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  6. Almond, Brenda (2012). "Kantian Voices in the Family Values Debate". Ethics and Social Welfare. 6 (2): 143–156. doi:10.1080/17496535.2012.682502. ISSN 1749-6535. S2CID 144157046.
  7. Committee, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons Science and Technology (2005). Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law: Fifth Report of Session 2004-05, Vol. 1: Report, Together with Formal Minutes. The Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-215-02323-0.
  8. Almond, Brenda (4 April 2009). The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine. Springer Netherlands. pp. 77–92. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8967-1_6. Retrieved 4 April 2022 – via Springer Link.
  9. "Half-Truths?: The science, politics and morality of hybrid embryos". Bionews.org.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  10. "Oeaw Members Detail". Oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
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