Lawrence Blum is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education. His scholarly interests are in race theory, moral philosophy, moral education, social and political philosophy, philosophy of education, the philosophy of Iris Murdoch, philosophy and the Holocaust, and, more recently, the UK-based project on the “Wartime Quartet,” four prominent 20th century British moral philosophers (Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley) who attended Oxford University together during WWII. Blum taught at UMass-Boston for 45 years, and has been a visiting professor at UCLA (in Philosophy), St…
Lawrence Blum is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education. His scholarly interests are in race theory, moral philosophy, moral education, social and political philosophy, philosophy of education, the philosophy of Iris Murdoch, philosophy and the Holocaust, and, more recently, the UK-based project on the “Wartime Quartet,” four prominent 20th century British moral philosophers (Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley) who attended Oxford University together during WWII. Blum taught at UMass-Boston for 45 years, and has been a visiting professor at UCLA (in Philosophy), Stanford (in Education), and Teachers College, Columbia (in Philosophy and Education) and Rhodes University in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown), South Africa (in Philosophy).
Professor Blum is the author of six books, most recently, Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education (co-author Zoe Burkholder)(Chicago UP 2021). For more, see https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo90478543.html
He is also the author of High Schools, Race, and America's Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community (Harvard EP, 2012); “I’m Not a Racist, But”: The Moral Quandary of Race (Cornell UP, 2002) (which was selected Best Book of the year in social philosophy by the North American Society for Social Philosophy); Moral Perception and Particularity (Cambridge UP, 1994); A Truer Liberty: Simone Weil and Marxism (co-author: V.J. Seidler) (Routledge, 1989); Friendship, Altruism, and Morality (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980).
