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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: Fellowships
CFA: Three postdoctoral research fellows — PluriCourts, University of Oslo
Three positions as postdoctoral research fellows (duration 3 years) are available at PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order, a Centre of Excellence at the Faculty of Law, University of … 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
Fully funded PhD in Political Theory at Central European University
The Doctoral School of Political offers two full fellowships with stipends for three years for the track in Political Theory. Possible supervision and courses are offered in the following areas: distributive justice, democratic theory, political obligation, philosophy of the social … Continue reading
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships: Political theory and political philosophy students encouraged to apply
Dear all, The call for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion fellowhips is up at: http://www.acls.org/programs/dcf/ The deadline is October 24 for fellowships lasting one year, from Summer 2013 to Summer 2014. While I have no particular role in awarding these fellowships, I do … 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
Fellowships for a Top Philosophy M.A. Program available
For those with undergrad students looking for a a great M.A. program in social and political philosophy and philosophy of law, be sure to let them know about this. We’ve had many students go on to excellent PhD programs. The … Continue reading
Middlebury College Dissertation Fellowship
Middlebury College Dissertation Fellowship Middlebury College invites applications for a dissertation fellowship for the academic year 2012-13. We are seeking graduate students with a clear commitment and ability to advance educational diversity, either through the nature of their scholarly work, … Continue reading
PhD Fellowships in Political Theory at Central European University
Call for Applications: Political Theory Track of CEU Doctoral Program in Political Science, CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC POLICY, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS We invite applications for the Political Theory Track of the CEU Doctoral Program in … 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
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
One year Teaching Fellowship in Political Philosophy at the University of York
The University of York wishes to make a fixed-term, 12 month appointment to a Teaching Fellowship in Political Philosophy in the Department of Politics. The post is available as a result of the award of a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research … 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
CEU Summer University: Justice: Theory and Its Applications
The CEU Summer University JUSTICE: THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS July 4-15, 2011 Budapest, Hungary Faculty: Peter Vallentyne, University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Philosophy, Columbia, USA Andrew Williams, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain Matthew … Continue reading
Excellent Philosophy MA program accepting applications
Hi all-Just thought I would let people know that if you happen to have undergrads who you think might be well served by an excellent MA program, Georgia State is now accepting applications for acceptance with Fellowships and Scholarships. Our … Continue reading
Dissertation Fellowship in Educational Diversity
Middlebury College Dissertation Fellowship As part of Middlebury’s commitment to promote faculty and student diversity, this one-year fellowship, which may be extended to a second year, provides support to doctoral candidates to complete dissertations in any discipline, to cultivate effective … Continue reading
PhD Fellowships in Political Theory at Central European University
Call for Applications: Political Theory Track of CEU Doctoral Program in Political Science, CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC POLICY, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS We invite applications for the Political Theory Track of CEU Doctoral Program in Political … 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
Postdoc at McGill
The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP), along with the Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS) and Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at McGill University, will offer one or more postdoctoral fellowships at McGill in 2011-12. … Continue reading
Visiting Fulbright Chair in the Theory and Practice of Federalism and Constitutionalism, McGill University, 2011-2012.
Visiting Fulbright Chair in the Theory and Practice of Federalism and Constitutionalism, McGill University, Department of Political Science and Research Group on Constitutional Studies, 2011-2012.Open to US citizens (who are not also Canadian citizens or permanent residents); must have received … Continue reading
Excellent MA program for Public Reasoners’ students
Hi all- Just thought I would let people know that if you happen to have undergrads who you think might be well served by an excellent MA program, Georgia State is now accepting applications for acceptance with Fellowships and Scholarships. … Continue reading
Postdocs at Stanford
Stanford, 2010-11 | Application deadline: 8 January 2010 The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Program on Global Justice seek up to three post-doctoral fellows for 2010-11. We welcome candidates with substantial normative research interests from diverse … Continue reading
GRIPP postdoc at McGill, 2010-2011
The departments of political science and philosophy at McGill University, the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP), and the Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS) will offer one or more postdoctoral fellowships at McGill in 2010-11. … Continue reading
McGill Visiting Fulbright Chair in the Theory and Practice of Federalism, 2010-2011
The deadline for all Canada-US visiting Fulbright Chairs has apparently been extended to September 30. The McGill Visiting Fulbright Chair in the Theory and Practice of Federalism is open to junior or senior scholars, doing empirical, normative, or theoretical work, … Continue reading
NEH Summer Institute in Experimental Philosophy
Salt Lake City: 22 June – 17 July 2009 | Applications by 2 March 2009 An announcement from Shaun Nichols that may be of interest to political philosophers: Experimental Philosophy is a new movement that uses experiments to address traditional … Continue reading
Senior fellowship at CREUM
The University of Montreal’s Centre de recherche en éthique (CREUM) is proud to announce its senior fellowship grant. We are inviting applications of professor-researchers for residential fellowships which can vary in length according to individual circumstances. Fellowships up to 40 … Continue reading
Murphy Institute at Tulane Faculty Fellowships
Murphy Institute Fellowships: 17 November 2008 The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University announces residential Faculty Fellowships for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Stanford Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Stanford Center for Ethics: 15 November 2008 – 10 January 2009 From Debra Satz and Rob Reich at Stanford: The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Program in Global Justice at Stanford University seek five post-doctoral fellows … Continue reading
Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships
Stanford Humanities: 2009-10 | Apply by 15 October 2008 The online application for 2009-2010 faculty fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center is now available. Fellows are in residence at the Center during the regular academic year (September to June) and … Continue reading
Stanford: Four 08-09 Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Stanford: 08-09 Post-Doc | Deadline: 10 January 2008 The Center on Ethics and the Program on Global Justice seek four post-doctoral fellows for 2008-09. We welcome candidates with substantial normative research interests from diverse backgrounds including philosophy, the social sciences, … Continue reading
