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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)
Category Archives: Calls for Papers
CfP: MANCEPT Workshop: ‘The Politics of Agonism’, 4th-6th September 2013
The agonist tradition has introduced to political thought an account of politics that focuses on the integral role of power and conflict in the relations between participants in society. But the tradition seems to be insufficiently aware of its conceptual … Continue reading
CFP: Hannah Arendt’s “On Revolution” after 50 years
September 25–26, 2013 Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile Keynote speakers: Jean Cohen (Columbia University) Robert Fine (University of Warwick) In March 1963, The Viking Press published Hannah Arendt’s book “On Revolution”. Since then, the book has provoked a significant … Continue reading
CFP: Power and Freedom, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, 4th – 6th September 2013 Convenors: Peter Morriss (National University of Ireland – Galway) Pamela Pansardi (University of Pavia) Co-sponsored with IPSA Research Committee on Political Power (RC36). The workshop aims at … Continue reading
C4P: “Incentives in Health Promotion: The Ethics and Politics of Healthy Choices”
A MANCEPT Workshop in Political Theory, convened by Richard Ashcroft (Queen Mary, University of London) and Jurgen De Wispelaere (McGill University) 4-6 September 2013, University of Manchester Behaviour shaping through incentives plays a major role in health and health promotion, … Continue reading
Call for Abstracts – Conference on Intergenerational Justice at the University of York, 19-20 Sept 2013
INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE: OBLIGATIONS, PROMISES, FAILURES Thursday 19 – Friday 20 September 2013: University of York The School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of York and the Intergenerational Foundation are delighted to launch a call for papers aimed … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy. ISSN 2255-3827
call for papers Las Torres de Lucca International Journal of Political Philosophy www.lastorresdelucca.org ISSN: 2255-3827 Las Torres de Lucca is an international peer-reviewed biannual publication featuring articles and book reviews of Political Philosophy in both English and Spanish. It is edited and published … Continue reading
CfP: Realizing Global Justice: Theory and Practice, 19–22 June 2013, University of Tromsø
The Pluralism, Democracy, and Justice (PDJ) research group of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Tromsø invites you to participate in the conference Realizing Global Justice: Theory and Practice to be held on 19–22 June 2013 at the … Continue reading
CFP: Cosmopolitanism and Conflict, Rome, October 11-13 2013
Call for Papers Cosmopolitanism and Conflict John Cabot University, Rome, October 11-13 2013 Confirmed speakers: Daniele Archibugi (Birkbeck and CNR, Rome) Robert Bernasconi (Penn State) James Bohman (St. Louis) Hauke Brunkhorst (Flensburg) Fred Dallmayr (Notre Dame) Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck) Patrick … Continue reading
Call for abstracts: Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy
This is a call for abstracts for the first annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy to be held Oct. 17-20, 2013 in Tucson, AZ at the Westward Look Hotel and Resort. Abstracts in all areas of Political Philosophy … Continue reading
Call for papers: 7th ECPR General Conference Sciences Po, Bordeaux 4th – 7th September 2013
Panel on Politics Through Procedures? Examining the Scope and Nature of Procedural Justification in Politics Section: Justification and Application. The Nature and Function of Political Norms Panel Conveners: Andrei Poama (Sciences-Po, Paris) and Emanuela Ceva (University of Pavia) This panel … Continue reading
CfP: Kant on Citizenship and Exclusion
CfP on “Kant on Citizenship and Exclusion” for a Panel at ECPR General Conference in Bordeaux in September 2013. Proposals are welcome and can be sent until 1st of February 2013. ECPR General Conference Bordeaux 04-07 September 2013 Section: Justification … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Theory and Practice: The Limits of Ethics for Guiding Action, 15-16 March 2013, University of Toronto
Centre for Ethics Graduate Associates Conference, University of Toronto “Theory and Practice: The Limits of Ethics for Guiding Action” Keynote Speaker: Colin Farrelly, Queen’s University Western social and political thought has long been concerned with the limitations of theoretical inquiry in … Continue reading
CFP: Brave New World
BRAVE NEW WORLD CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submission of abstract: 22nd March 2013 Brave New World 2013, the Seventeenth Annual Postgraduate Conference organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), will take place on Thursday … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Political Decision And Truth, November 15-16, 2013 – Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris
Political Decision And Truth: Interdisciplinary Symposium Submission deadline: January 30, 2013 Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2013 Format of proposals: One page (a maximum of 2500 to 3000 characters, including spaces) abstracts – in French or English – should be submitted … Continue reading
Call for papers: 2013 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, ‘The Politics of Equality’
Paper proposals are invited for the second Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, to be held at the University of Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations on 25th-26th April 2013. The theme will be ‘The Politics of Equality’, which … Continue reading
CFP: Seventh Annual Felician Ethics Conference
Please see the Felician Ethics Institute website for full details of (and updates for) the CFP: http://felicianethics.wordpress.com/ CALL FOR PAPERS The seventh annual meeting of the Felician Ethics Conference will be held at the Rutherford Campus of Felician College on Saturday, … Continue reading
CFP – Challenges to Participation in Democracy
CALL FOR PAPERS Conference – Challenges to Participation in Democracy University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters, 16th-17th May 2013 Recent political events have brought the problem of political participation to a new light by promoting active participation in ‘occupy … Continue reading
CFP: Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy
call for papers Las Torres de Lucca International Journal of Political Philosophy www.lastorresdelucca.org ISSN: 2255-3827 Las Torres de Lucca is an international peer-reviewed biannual publication featuring articles and book reviews of Political Philosophy in both English and Spanish. It is edited … Continue reading
Call for papers: Thematic Section: 12th Congress of the French Political Science Association (AFSP), July 9-11, 2013, Section 22
Deadline: October 15, 2012 Les procédures de la démocratie. Perspectives pour la théorie politique et la pratique de la démocratie Cette section thématique se propose d’analyser et d’évaluer trois procédures de décision qui sont actuellement revendiquées comme démocratiques : le … Continue reading
Call for papers
Workshop: “Sovereignty of the Market, or Sovereignty over the Market?” 23-25 January 2013 in Leiden (The Netherlands) Deadline abstracts (300 words): October 1st, 2012. This interdisciplinary workshop explores the hypothesis that the financial breakdown and the Euro-crisis raise a question of political … Continue reading
CALL FOR PAPERS: “Human Rights Thought and Practice in the Contemporary World”
The Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom will hold its annual conference on Saturday 24th November 2012 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The conference will be sponsored by the … Continue reading
CFP: ‘Exploring the Green Framework’
Ninth Annual MANCEPT Political Theory Workshops (5th -7th September 2012) http://manceptworkshops2012.wordpress.com/ University of Manchester Call for Papers: Exploring the ‘Green Framework’ Environmental issues are fast becoming a central and pressing concern of the political landscape. The ‘Green Framework’, is comprised … Continue reading
Reminder: Cfa Acceptable Reasons and Public Deliberation (Mancept Workshops in Political Theory)
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory – Ninth Annual Conference Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), University of Manchester, 5th – 7th September 2012 WORKSHOP ON ACCEPTABLE REASONS AND PUBLIC DELIBERATION Convenor: Enrico Biale (University of Piemonte Orientale) Many democratic theories … Continue reading
CfP: Law, Ethics and Philosophy, a new international journal
Law, Ethics and Philosophy (LEAP) is a new peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to work in ethics, legal theory, and social and political philosophy. It welcomes clear, rigorous and original submissions addressing concrete issues of public concern as well as more … Continue reading
CFP: Brave New World
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submission of abstract: 9th April 2012 Brave New World 2012, the Sixteenth Annual Postgraduate Conference organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), will take place on Wednesday 27th … Continue reading
[CFP] Workshop on the Normative Justifications for the Welfare State
Workshop on ‘Normative Justifications for the Welfare State: Markets, Cooperation and Regulation’ MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory – Ninth Annual Conference Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), University of Manchester 5th – 7th September 2012 The welfare state is a, … Continue reading
Call For Papers: Le pluralisme libéral et ses critiques
Call For Papers: Le pluralisme libéral et ses critiques Le CEVIPOF (Sciences Po Paris) et le CEHUM (Université de Minho) organisent un colloque de deux jours sur le pluralisme libéral et ses critiques. Il aura lieu à Paris les 20 … Continue reading
CFP (extended deadline): Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (Northwestern)
CALL FOR PAPERS From faculty and graduate students SOCIETY FOR THE THEORY OF ETHICS AND POLITICS Northwestern University, 6th Annual Conference, May 17–19, 2012 Keynote speakers: Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton) T. M. Scanlon (Harvard) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We welcome submissions from … Continue reading
Call for Papers – Workshop: The procedural dimension of justice
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory – Ninth Annual Conference Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), University of Manchester, 5th – 7th September 2012 WORKSHOP ON THE PROCEDURAL DIMENSION OF JUSTICE Convenor: Emanuela Ceva (University of Pavia) Can the procedures through … Continue reading
CFP: Brave New World
CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submission of abstract: 9th April 2012 Brave New World 2012, the Sixteenth Annual Postgraduate Conference organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), will take place on Wednesday 27th and … Continue reading
2nd CFP: ON THE SCOPE OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: Relational and Non-relational Views
ON THE SCOPE OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: Relational and Non-relational Views July 5-7, 2012, Central European University, Budapest Organized by the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy, CEU and the Global Justice Network Keynote speakers: Simon Caney (Oxford University) Samuel Scheffler … Continue reading
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 2012
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 2012 Call for Convenors The MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 2012 is an annual conference in political theory, organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester. The conference in … Continue reading
CFP: Sixth Annual Felician Ethics Conference
Please see the Felician Ethics Institute website for full details of the CFP: http://felicianethics.wordpress.com/ CALL FOR PAPERS The sixth annual meeting of the Felician Ethics Conference will be held at the Rutherford Campus of Felician College on Saturday, April 21, … Continue reading
CFP: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Authority Beyond States, Paris, 3-4 May 2012
For its third international Authority Beyond States workshop, the AUSTAT network invites submissions from political philosophy, international and comparative constitutional law, and political science to address the exercise of authority by international institutions.
CONF & CFP: Global Justice: Norms and Limits (Bucharest, 10 – 12 May, 2012)
Global Justice: Norms and Limits Bucharest, 10 – 12 May, 2012 Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest Keynote and guest speakers include: Thomas Pogge (Yale), David Miller (Oxford), Hillel Steiner (Manchester), Véronique Zanetti (Bilefield), Sebastiano Maffettone (Roma), Paula Casal (Barcelona), … 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
Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy
Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy has a new Call for Abstracts, and the deadline is in less than a month, on Dec. 15. To submit, all you need to do is prepare a brief (1,000 word) abstract. The editors then invite … Continue reading
Twin Cities Review of Political Philosophy – Call for Undergraduate Papers
The Twin Cities Review of Political Philosophy is seeking quality undergraduate papers in political philosophy for publication in its Summer 2012 issue. The journal is published as a freely available electronic interactive magazine. Undergraduates, with or without faculty support, are encouraged to … Continue reading
CFP: Special Issue on “Global Justice & Practice-Dependence” in Raisons Politiques (in English)
Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2012 Tentative publication date: Winter 2012 About the Journal Raisons Politiques is a well-established journal of political thought currently building an international reputation with the support of Sciences Po, the French renowned research institute for … Continue reading
