Ben Laurence

Ben Laurence
Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division and the Division of Social Sciences.
5720 S. Woodlawn Ave, 2nd floor

Ben Laurence is Instructional Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies in the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights. He is a political philosopher whose research focuses on large-scale questions about the relation of political philosophy to agency, history, and change. He works on the philosophy of human rights, labor rights, racial justice, and Kant’s political philosophy.  He is the author of Agents of Change: Political Philosophy in Practice (Harvard University Press, 2021).