David Heyd
Professor
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor Heyd is the Chaim Perlman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main fields of research are ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics. He has published Supererogation (Cambridge University Press, 1982), Genethics (1992), Ethics and Medicine (1989, in Hebrew), edited Toleration (Princeton University Press, 1996). His articles relating to the theme of this volume include topics such as intergenerational justice, wrongful life, the non-identity problem, and reproductive ethics and he has written several articles on the place of wrongful life claims in cases of wrongful gamete manipulation, addressing both American and Israeli perspectives. Professor Heyd was the winner of the Emet Prize in philosophy (2017). He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University and BA/MA from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
