Staff profile

Professor Janna Thompson

Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 312, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-University of Minnesota), B.Phil (Oxford University).

Membership of professional associations

Australian Academy of the Humanities

Area of study

Philosophy

Brief profile

Janna Thompson’s main area of research is in ethics and political philosophy. She has written books and articles on global justice, historical responsibility and intergenerational justice. She teaches subjects on human rights, environmentalism and war and peace.

Research interests

Environmental Philosophy

- Environmental Ethics

Gender, Culture, Sexuality

- Feminism

Philosophy of the Mind

- Historical Responsibility

- Intergenerational Justice

Teaching units

  • PHI2/3HUR - Human Rights: Fundamental Issues.
  • PHI2/3WAP - War and Peace.

Recent publications

  • Intergenerational Justice (Routledge, 2008).
  • Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice (Polity, 2002).
  • Edited with Loane Skene, The Sorting Society: the Ethics of Genetic Screening and Therapy (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
  • ‘Apology, Historical Obligations and the Ethics of Memory’, Memory Studies, 2/2 (2009): 195-210.
  • ‘Historical Responsibility and Liberal Societies’, Intergenerational Justice Review 9/1 (2009); 13-18
  • ‘Identity and Obligation in a Transgenerational Polity’, in Axel Gosseries and Lukas H. Meyer, eds., Intergenerational Justice (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • ‘Genetic Technology and Intergenerational Justice’, in Loane Skene and Janna Thompson, eds., The Sorting Society (Cambridge University Press).
  • ‘Liberal and Communitarian Approaches to Citizenship’, in Azyumardi Azra and Wayne Hudson, eds., Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory (Aldershot: Asgate, 2008).
  • ‘War and the Protection of Property’, Civilian Immunity in War, ed., Igor Primoratz (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Research projects

  • Ethics of Historical Relationships
  • Intergenerational Justice