Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan is Professor of Philosophy at University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is also a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, an affiliate member of the Department of Women Studies and Feminist Research, and a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Political Science. Brennan was Department Chair of Philosophy from 2002-2007, and 2008-2011. Brennan received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Her doctoral thesis "Thresholds for Rights" was written under the supervision of Shelly Kagan. Brennan's BA in Philosophy is from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Brennan grew up on the east coast of Canada, living in Newfoundland, New Brunswick (very briefly) and Nova Scotia. She was born in Lancashire, England.
Brennan has been a Visiting Faculty Fellow in Philosophy, RSSS, the Australian National University and a Taylor Fellow in Philosophy and a Visiting Fellow in Bioethics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Research interests
Brennan has broad ranging research interests in contemporary normative ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy. Brennan is best known for her work on children's rights and family justice. She is also known for her work on deontological ethics in which she develops a moderate deontological account according to which rights can be overridden on the basis of the amount of good that can be brought about by doing so. Brennan has also published on the topics of gender identity and fashion, bioethics, philosophy of sport, the moral significance of death, and on feminist approaches to fitness.

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