Martha Nussbaum is one of today's prominent specialists in ethics. She was
born in 1947 in New York City. She attended Wellesley College and
graduated from New York University with a B.A. in 1969. She received a
Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1975, and has taught at
Harvard, Wellesley and Brown University. Currently she is Professor of
Law and Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Some of her major works
in ethics are: The Fragility of Goodness (1986) , The Therapy
of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (1994), Poetic
Justice (1996), and Sex and Social Justice (1998).