Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Oxford 2020), Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (Oxford 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford 2009, with Adam Cureton), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016, with David Coady and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen).

At the heart of this book then is a simple plea - that we open our eyes to what is most basic, in many ways what is most challenging, but also most meaningful, about being human: our need for other humans.

• Introduction 1: Social Beings 2: Social Deprivation 3: Sustaining Others 4: Interactive Freedom 5: Dilemmas of Sociability 6: Associative Freedom 7: Moral Messiness 8: Segregation

Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Oxford 2020), Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (Oxford 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford 2009, with Adam Cureton), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016, with David Coady and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen).

At the heart of this book then is a simple plea - that we open our eyes to what is most basic, in many ways what is most challenging, but also most meaningful, about being human: our need for other humans.

• Introduction 1: Social Beings 2: Social Deprivation 3: Sustaining Others 4: Interactive Freedom 5: Dilemmas of Sociability 6: Associative Freedom 7: Moral Messiness 8: Segregation

Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Oxford 2020), Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (Oxford 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford 2009, with Adam Cureton), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016, with David Coady and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen).

At the heart of this book then is a simple plea - that we open our eyes to what is most basic, in many ways what is most challenging, but also most meaningful, about being human: our need for other humans.

• Introduction 1: Social Beings 2: Social Deprivation 3: Sustaining Others 4: Interactive Freedom 5: Dilemmas of Sociability 6: Associative Freedom 7: Moral Messiness 8: Segregation