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Sarah Conly, Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism
Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries, and Ingrid Robeyns, eds., Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: A Gender Perspective (US) (UK) (CA)
Catherine Audard, John Rawls (US) (UK) (CA)
Maria Baghramian & Attracta Ingram, eds., Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity (US) (UK) (CA)
Bat-Ami Bar On, The Subject of Violence (US) (UK) (CA)
Christian Barry and Thomas Pogge, eds., Global Institutions and Responsibilities (US) (UK) (CA)
Sonu Bedi, Rejecting Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Richard Bellamy, Political Constitutionalism (US) (UK) (CA)
Charles Blattberg, From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics (US) (UK) (CA)
Chiara Bottici, A Philosophy of Political Myth (US) (UK) (CA)
Laurent Bouvet, Le communautarisme: Mythes et réalités (US) (UK) (FR)
Corey Brettschneider, Democratic Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Harry Brighouse, On Education (US) (UK) (CA)
Harry Brighouse and Gillian Brock, eds., The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (US) (UK) (CA)
Gillian Brock, Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (US) (UK) (CA)
Thom Brooks, Hegel's Political Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Thom Brooks, ed., The Global Justice Reader (US) (UK) (CA)
Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination (US) (UK) (CA)
Mark Button, Contract, Culture, and Citizenship: Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls (US) (UK) (CA)
Gideon Calder, Rorty's Politics of Redescription (US) (UK) (CA)
Eamonn Callan, Creating Citizens (US) (UK) (CA)
Simon Caney, Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory (US) (UK) (CA)
Thomas Christiano, The Constitution of Equality (US) (UK) (CA)
Claudio Corradetti, Relativism and Human Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
M. Victoria Costa, Rawls, Citizenship, and Education (US) (UK) (CA)
Derrick Darby, Rights, Race, and Recognition (US) (UK) (CA)
Monique Deveaux, Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States (US) (UK) (CA)
Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere, and Stuart White, eds., The Ethics of Stakeholding (US) (UK) (CA)
William Edmundson, Three Anarchical Fallacies (US) (UK) (CA)
David Estlund, Democratic Authority (US) (UK) (CA)
Colin Farrelly, Justice, Democracy and Reasonable Agreement (US) (UK) (CA)
Alessandro Ferrara, The Force of the Example (US) (UK) (CA)
Christopher Finlay, Hume's Social Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Gordon Finlayson, Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (US) (UK) (CA)
James Fleming, Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy (US) (UK) (CA)
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Toleration as Recognition (US) (UK) (CA)
Graeme Garrard, Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment (US) (UK) (CA)
Carol Gould, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Benjamin Gregg, Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms (US) (UK) (CA)
Lori Gruen, Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (US) (UK) (CA)
Jospeh Heath, Following the Rules (US) (UK) (CA)
Jason Hill, Becoming a Cosmopolitan (US) (UK) (CA)
Nils Holtug and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, eds., Egalitarianism (US) (UK) (CA)
Iseult Honohan, Civic Republicanism (US) (UK) (CA)
Dustin Ells Howes, Toward a Credible Pacifism (US) (UK) (CA)
Michael Huemer, Ethical Intuitionism (US) (UK) (CA)
Thomas Hurka, Perfectionism (US) (UK) (CA)
Alison Jaggar, ed., Just Methods: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader (US) (UK) (CA)
Simon Keller, The Limits of Loyalty (US) (UK) (CA)
Mark Kingwell and Patrick Turmel, eds., Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space (US) (UK) (CA)
Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols, eds., Experimental Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Ari Kohen, In Defense of Human Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Anthony Langlois, The Politics of Justice and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory (US) (UK) (CA)
Steven Lecce, Against Perfectionism: Defending Liberal Neutrality (US) (UK) (CA)
Jacob T. Levy, The Multiculturalism of Fear (US) (UK) (CA)
Roderick T. Long, Reason and Value: Aristotle versus Rand (US) (UK) (CA)
Colin Macleod, Liberalism, Justice, and Markets: A Critique of Liberal Equality (US) (UK) (CA)
Rex Martin and David Reidy, eds., Rawls's Law of Peoples (US) (UK) (CA)
Matt Matravers, Responsibility and Justice (US) (UK) (CA)
Larry May, War Crimes and Just War (US) (UK) (CA)
John Maynor, Republicanism in the Modern World (US) (UK) (CA)
Steven Mazie, Israel's Higher Law: Religion and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish State (US) (UK) (CA)
Noëlle McAfee, Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (US) (UK) (CA)
Christopher McMahon, Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning (US) (UK) (CA)
Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Cali, eds., The Legalization of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Approaches (US) (UK) (CA)
Peter Meyers, Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen (US) (UK) (CA)
Darrel Moellendorf, Global Inequality Matters (US) (UK) (CA)
Diane Morgan and Gary Banham, eds., Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of the Future (US) (UK) (CA)
Colleen Murphy, A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (US) (UK) (CA)
Jan Narveson, You and the State: A Short Introduction to Political Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Nahshon Perez, Freedom from Past Injustices (US) (UK) (CA)
Jonathan Quong, Liberalism without Perfection (US) (UK) (CA)
George Rainbolt, The Concept of Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Andrew Rehfeld, The Concept of Constituency (US) (UK) (CA)
Rob Reich, Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education (US) (UK) (CA)
David Reidy and Walter Riker, Coercion and the State (US) (UK) (CA)
Melvin Rogers, The Undiscovered Dewey (US) (UK) (CA)
Andrew Sabl, Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics (US) (UK) (CA)
Debra Satz, Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale (US) (UK) (CA)
Debra Satz and Rob Reich, eds., Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin (US) (UK) (CA)
David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan, A Brief History of Liberty (US) (UK) (CA)
Sibyl Schwarzenbach, On Civic Friendship (US) (UK) (CA)
Tamsin Shaw, Nietzsche's Political Skepticism (US) (UK) (CA)
Tommie Shelby, We Who Are Dark (US) (UK) (CA)
Laurie Shrage, Abortion and Social Responsibility: Depolarizing the Debate (US) (UK) (CA)
A. John Simmons, Justification and Legitimacy (US) (UK) (CA)
Christine T. Sistare, ed., Civility and Its Discontents (US) (UK) (CA)
Sarah Song, Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism (US) (UK) (CA)
Jean-Fabien Spitz, John Locke et les fondements de la liberté moderne (US) (FR) (CA)
Uwe Steinhoff, The Philosophy of Jurgen Habermas (US) (UK) (CA)
Peter Stone, The Luck of the Draw (US) (UK) (CA)
Robert Talisse, Democracy after Liberalism (US) (UK) (CA)
Kok-Chor Tan, Justice without Borders (US) (UK) (CA)
Robert Taylor, Reconstructing Rawls (US) (UK) (CA)
C.L. Ten, ed., The Nineteenth Century (US) (UK) (CA)
Mathias Thaler, Moralische Politik oder politische Moral? (US) (UK)
Peter Vallentyne and Hillel Steiner, eds., Left-Libertarianism and its Critics (US) (UK)
Steve Vanderheiden, Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change (US) (UK) (CA)
Steven Wall and George Klosko, eds., Perfectionism and Neutrality (US) (UK) (CA)
Eric Thomas Weber, Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy (US) (UK) (CA)
Daniel Weinstock and Christian Nadeau, eds., Republicanism: History, Theory and Practice (US) (UK) (CA)
Cynthia Willett, The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris (US) (UK) (CA)
Melissa Williams, Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (US) (UK) (CA)
Jessica Wolfendale, Torture and the Military Profession (US) (UK) (CA)
Christopher Woodard, Reasons, Patterns, and Cooperation (US) (UK) (CA)
Christopher Zurn, Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (US) (UK) (CA)
Matt Zwolinski, ed., Arguing about Political Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Author Archives: Simon Cabulea May
Princeton Grad Conference in Political Theory 2013
CFP Deadline: January 11, 2013 The Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University will be held from April 5-6, 2013. The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers addressing any topic in political … Continue reading
2013-14 Stanford Postdocs
Two great postdoc fellowship opportunities at Stanford. The application deadline is 10 January 2013: The Center for Ethics in Society Post Doctoral Fellowships For 2013-2014, we seek up to four new post doctoral fellows. We are also expecting to be able … Continue reading
Reading Group on Corey Brettschneider’s When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?
I’m happy to announce that from 12 November we’ll be hosting a reading group on Corey Brettschneider’s new book, When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?: How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality. From the publishers: How should … Continue reading
CFP: Princeton Graduate Political Theory Conference
Princeton University, 5-6 April 2013 | CFP Deadline, 11 January 2013 The Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University will be held from April 5-6, 2013. The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers … Continue reading
Visiting Assistant Professor Positions at Virginia Tech (incl. Political Philosophy)
I am updating this posting since the university HR webpage for the political philosophy position has changed. To apply for the position please click here. The Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech is still accepting applications for this position. — … Continue reading
CUNY Graduate Center Postdoc
CUNY Graduate Center 2012-23 | Deadline: 12 April 2012 This looks like a great postdoctoral fellowship associated with the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at CUNY GC: The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the Ph.D. … Continue reading
Public Reason Graduate Tech Assistant(s)
I’m looking for one or two graduate students to take over the technical nuts and bolts administration of the website, i.e., sign up new members, keep the site WordPress and theme up-to-date, fix broken links, keep a lookout for new … Continue reading
CFP: Oxford Political Theory Grad Conference
Oxford: 19-20 April 2012 | CFP: 15 January 2012 Via Marius Ostrowski: Political Theory and the ‘Liberal’ Tradition Graduate students are invited to submit paper proposals for the inaugural Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, to be held at the … Continue reading
CFP: Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Princeton: 6-7 April 2012 | CFP: 16 January 2012 Via Ted Lechterman, this year’s CFP for a great graduate conference in political theory: The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers concerning any topic … Continue reading
Open Letter to US University Chancellors and Presidents
Matthew Noah Smith has written the following open letter from the faculty of US universities and colleges to to their chancellors and presidents regarding the use of violence against student protesters. If you would like to add your name to … Continue reading
Scanlon on Libertarianism in Boston Review
Tim Scanlon has an essay up at Boston Review on libertarianism and liberty: “Libertarianism presents itself as a simple, clear, and principled view. It appears to provide a moral basis, in the value of individual liberty, for a specific political … Continue reading
Stanford Center for Ethics in Society Postdocs 2012-13
Stanford 2012-13 | Application deadline 11 January 2012 A message from the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford regarding their postdoctoral fellowship opportunities for 2012-2013: For 2012-2013, we seek up to four new postdoctoral fellows. We welcome … Continue reading
TT Assistant Professor Position, Virginia Tech
This year, we’re looking for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy with interdisciplinary research and teaching interests. It’s a 2/2 load, including a graduate seminar. Applications should be received by 14 November and applicants MUST complete the … Continue reading
2012-13 Tulane CEPA Fellowships
Tulane University Center for Ethics and Public Affairs | Deadline: 15 November 2011 This is a great fellowship opportunity in a great place: The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University invites applications for up to … Continue reading
Grad CFP: “From Meydan Tahrir to Wisconsin”
Cornell University, 27-28 April 2012 | CFP Deadline: 1 Nov 2011 Via Pinar Kemerli at Cornell: “From Meydan Tahrir to Wisconsin: Rethinking Revolution, Democracy and Citizenship” An interdisciplinary graduate student conference, hosted by the political theory graduate students in the … Continue reading
iPad 2
A lazy question to mark the beginning of summer: Suppose an academic were to (a) succumb to Apple’s marketing prowess and (b) invest a great deal of time and energy researching/discovering the best ways to make use of his/her new … Continue reading
Symposium on Corey Brettschneider’s Democratic Rights
I’m very happy to say that a symposium on Corey Brettschneider’s Democratic Rights has now been published in Representation. The symposium is based on the contributions to the reading group on the book that took place here in late 2008. … Continue reading
Women in Philosophy Blog
A quick note that What Is It Like to Be a Woman in Philosophy? is back in business, along with a new site: What We’re Doing About What It’s Like. It’s no doubt impossible to sum up the problems facing … Continue reading
The Art of Theory
Via Jason Swadley at Brown, a new online political philosophy quarterly: The Art of Theory. This issue contains an interview with Michael Sandel, pieces by John McCormick and Sharon Krause, and a roundtable discussion of Ryan Patrick Hanley’s Adam Smith … Continue reading
Tulane Center for Ethics and Public Affairs Fellowships
New application deadline: 7 March 2011 The deadline for the 2010-11 fellowships at Tulane’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs has been extended until 7 March 2011. Please also note that the fellowship amount is $60,000 for the two semesters. … Continue reading
CFP: Association for Legal and Social Philosophy 2011
Warwick: 4-6 July 2011 | CFP: 15 March 2011 The 2011 conference of the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy will be held at the University of Warwick on 4-6 July 2011. The theme of the conference is “Authority, Legitimacy … Continue reading
Membership Updates
A quick housekeeping post: We now have about 650 registered users around the world. Most of these are registered as members, but quite a few are participants. (The former can publish new posts whereas the latter can comment only.) My … Continue reading
CFP: Northwestern Ethics/Political Philosophy Conference
Northwestern SETPP: 19-21 May 2011 | CFP: 15 February 2011 The Northwestern University Society for Ethical Theory and Political Philosophy will hold their fifth annual conference on 19-21 May 2011. The keynote speakers are Philip Pettit and R. Jay Wallace. … Continue reading
CFP: Princeton Grad Conference in Political Theory
Princeton: 8-9 April 2011 | CFP: 10 January 2011 The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers concerning any period, methodological approach or topic in political theory, political philosophy, or the history of political … Continue reading
New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility
NO WAR: 3-5 Nov 2011 | CFP: 1 March 2011 Dave Shoemaker is sending out a call for abstracts for the first biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NO WAR), to be held in New Orleans, LA at … Continue reading
Stanford Equality of Opportunity and Education Postdocs
[Stanford also have postdocs in the Program on Global Justice and the Ethics in Society program] Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Equality of Opportunity and Education at Stanford University (two positions) The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society is … Continue reading
Stanford 2011-12 Postdocs
Stanford University 2011-12 | Deadline: 12 Jan 2011 The Stanford Center for Ethics in Society and the Program on Global Justice are seeking up to four post-doctoral fellows for 2011-12: “We welcome candidates with substantial normative research interests from diverse … Continue reading
2nd Annual 3QD Philosophy Prize
Nominations Open: 21-31 August 2010 Via Abbas Raza, 3 Quarks Daily – the website you should be reading if you are not already — are hosting their second annual prize for the best blog writing in philosophy. Akeel Bilgrami will be the judge. … Continue reading
Eastern APA: The Ethics of Compromise in Democracy
Eastern APA: 28 Dec 2010 For everyone intending to go to the Eastern APA in Boston this year, the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs will be holding a session on the Ethics of Compromise in Democracy on Tuesday 28 … Continue reading
Stuart White on Political Philosophy and the Left
Via Edward Lewis, the first part of a two-part interview with Stuart White on political philosophy and the left at the New Left Project. Topics include Cohen on luck egalitarianism and freedom.
Political Essays
Here are two questions that strike me as worth thinking about. Say you wanted to teach a liberal arts-style freshman seminar that introduced students to the idea of reflecting on politics and society, but you didn’t want to turn it … Continue reading
CFP: The Epistemology of Liberal Democracy
Copenhagen: 19-20 August 2010 | CFP: 1 April 2010 The second University of Copenhagen conference in epistemology will be held from 19-20 August 2010. The following is the description: We tend to think of liberal democracy as providing the most … Continue reading
Visiting Position in Ethics at Virginia Tech
The Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech invites applications for a one-year position, to begin August 10, 2010. Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor; AOS: Ethics; AOC: Open. Five courses per year, including one graduate seminar. Evidence of teaching ability and research potential required. Salary: competitive. … Continue reading
Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute
Penn State: 25 July-1 August 2010 | Applications by 10 March (grad) or 15 April (undergrad) Via Eva Kittay: The Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) is designed to encourage undergraduate students from underrepresented groups to consider future … Continue reading
The Value and Limits of Rights
Newcastle University: 25-26 February 2010 The Newcastle Ethics, Legal and Political Philosophy Research Group are holding a conference in honour of Professor Peter Jones. The topic of the conference is “The Value and Limits of Rights.” The conference will be … Continue reading
The Burqa in France
According to the BBC, in the latest twist in l’affaire du foulard/voile, a French parliamentary committee has recommended a ban on women wearing Islamic face veils in public [Correction: the proposal applies to public facilities, such as hospitals and mass transit, … Continue reading
CFP: Cosmopolitanism: For and Against
The Monist 94 (4): October 2011 | CFP: 31 October 2010 Via Gillian Brock, a CFP for an issue of the Monist on cosmopolitanism due out in 2011: According to cosmopolitanism, every person has global stature as the ultimate unit … Continue reading
CFP: 2010 SAP Conference
St. Anne’s College, Oxford: 2-4 July 2010 | CFP: 9 January 2010 Moving up to the top because the deadline is soon — SCM. The 2010 Society for Applied Philosophy annual conference will be held at St. Anne’s College from … Continue reading
CFP: Princeton Political Theory Graduate Conference
Princeton: 9-10 April 2010 | CFP: 18 January 2010 The deadline for this conference has now been extended to 18 January 2010 — SCM. The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers concerning any … Continue reading
CFP: The Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice
Linköping, Sweden: 8-12 June 2010 | CFP: 8 March 2010 The European Science Foundation (ESF), in partnership with LFiU is organising a conference on the “Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice” to be held at the Scandic Hotel Linköping Väst, Linköping, Sweden, from … Continue reading
