Editing John Rawls (section)

===Academic career===
In early 1946, Rawls returned to Princeton to pursue a doctorate in moral philosophy. He married Margaret Warfield Fox, a [[Brown University]] graduate, in 1949. They had four children: [[Anne Warfield Rawls|Anne Warfield]], Robert Lee, Alexander Emory, and Elizabeth Fox.<ref name="Freemanxix" />

Rawls received his PhD from Princeton in 1950 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled ''A Study in the Grounds of Ethical Knowledge: Considered with Reference to Judgments on the Moral Worth of Character''. His PhD included a year of study at Cornell. Rawls taught at Princeton until 1952 when he received a [[Fulbright Fellowship]] to [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] at [[Oxford University]], where he was influenced by the liberal political theorist and historian [[Isaiah Berlin]] and the legal theorist [[H. L. A. Hart]]. After returning to the United States, he served first as an assistant and then associate professor at [[Cornell University]].

In the fall of 1953 Rawls became an assistant professor at [[Cornell University]], joining his mentor [[Norman Malcolm]] in the Philosophy Department. Three years later Rawls received tenure at [[Cornell University|Cornell]]. During the 1959–60 academic year, Rawls was a visiting professor at Harvard, and he was appointed in 1960 as a professor in the humanities division at MIT. Two years later, he returned to Harvard as a professor of philosophy, and he remained there until reaching mandatory retirement age in 1991.

In 1962, he achieved a tenured position at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. That same year, he moved to [[Harvard University]], where he taught for almost forty years and where he trained some of the leading contemporary figures in moral and political philosophy, including [[Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach]], [[Thomas Nagel]], [[Allan Gibbard]], [[Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve|Onora O'Neill]], [[Adrian Piper]], [[Arnold Davidson]], [[Elizabeth S. Anderson]], [[Christine Korsgaard]], [[Susan Neiman]], [[Claudia Card]], [[Rainer Forst]], [[Thomas Pogge]], [[T. M. Scanlon]], [[Barbara Herman]], [[Joshua Cohen (philosopher)|Joshua Cohen]], [[Thomas E. Hill (academic)|Thomas E. Hill Jr.]], [[Gurcharan Das]], [[Andreas Teuber]], [[Henry S. Richardson]], [[Nancy Sherman]], [[Samuel Freeman (philosopher)|Samuel Freeman]] and [[Paul Weithman]]. He held the [[James Bryant Conant]] [[Harvard University Professor|University Professorship]] at Harvard.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2002-11-26 |title=John Rawls, Theorist on Justice, Is Dead at 82 {{!}} New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/us/john-rawls-theorist-on-justice-is-dead-at-82.html |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=New York Times |language=en-US }}</ref>

Rawls was, for a time, a member of the [[Mont Pèlerin Society]]. He was put forward for membership by [[Milton Friedman]] in 1968, and withdrew from the society three years later, just before his ''[[A Theory of Justice]]'' was published.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Offer |last2=Söderberg |first1=Avner |first2=Gabriel |title=The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn |date=2016 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88iXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA272 |page=272 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=9780691166032}}</ref>