Dr. Ruth Chang

Biography

Ruth Chang is a Chair Professor of Jurisprudence and a Professorial Fellow at University College, Oxford. Previously, she was a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Chang has also served as a visiting philosophy professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a visiting law professor at the University of Chicago. She held a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College while completing her D.Phil. in philosophy and has held fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and the National Humanities Center. Chang has served on the boards of several academic journals. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her expertise focuses on philosophical questions related to the nature of value, conflict, decision-making, rationality, the exercise of agency, and choice. Her work has been featured in interviews across various media outlets in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, Israel, Brazil, New Zealand, and Austria. Chang has consulted and lectured for institutions in diverse fields, including video gaming, pharmaceuticals, the CIA, and the World Bank.

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