Rate My Professor Gal Kober

Gal Kober is Professor of Philosophy and FLR Coordinator at Bridgewater State University. She earned a BA from Tel Aviv University and a PhD from Boston University in 2010. Her doctoral work focused on the philosophy of biology, particularly the concept of species. Prior to her position at Bridgewater State University, she taught at Tufts University for four years. Between 2013 and 2015, she was an Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University. Professor Kober also serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Sustainability at Bridgewater State University. She has presented on topics such as taking philosophy into clinical bioethics and has received CARS Summer Grants for research on conscientious objection in medicine.

Professor Kober works and teaches primarily in applied ethics, with a focus on bioethics. Her research is centered on questions of autonomy and informed consent, with further interests in disability, economic justice, and scientific classification. Informed by a background in philosophy of science, her areas of specialization include biomedical ethics. She currently serves as an Ethics Associate and community member of the Boston Children’s Hospital Ethics Advisory Committee, and as a member of the Community Ethics Committee at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Key publications include 'For They Do Not Agree in Nature: Spinoza and Deep Ecology' (2013) and 'Ethical and Epistemic Issues in Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising: Where is Patient Agency?' (2013). These works demonstrate her contributions to environmental ethics and patient agency in healthcare advertising.