Political Philosophy
Gunnar Hindrichs
- Metaphysics
- Political Philosophy
- Aesthetics
I am primarily interested in metaphysics, political philosophy, and aesthetics. My book "Negatives Selbstbewusstsein" (2002) reflects upon Kant's theory of self-consciousness, and my book "Das Absolute und das Subjekt" (2008) deals with the tension between metaphysical and postmetaphysical thinking. I have edited a volume on Spinoza's political philosophy (2006) and, together with the late Ruediger Bubner, the proceedings of the International Hegel-Congress 2005. Currently, I am working on two major projects: on a study on the relation between naturalism and humanism, and on a philosophy of music.
Doug Weck
BA, philosophy, Syracuse University
BS, biology, Syracuse University
MA, philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Joseph B. Tulman & Doug M. Weck, "Shutting Off the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Status Offenders with Education-related Disabilities," New York Law School Law Review (forthcoming)
Stephen P. Steinberg
Advisor to the President, 2004-present.
Executive Director, Penn National Commission on Society, Culture, and Community, 1996-2004.
Lecturer in Philosophy, 1981-present.
Lecturer in Communication, Spring 2006, Annenberg School for Communication.
Faculty Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, 1990-present.
Affiliated Faculty, Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, 11999-present.
Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response, 2002-present.
Public Discourse in America, Conversation and Community in the 21st Century, Judith Rodin and Stephen P. Steinberg, eds. (Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
Stephen R. Perry
John J. O'Brien Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy
Stephen Perry's research interests include the methodology of jurisprudence, the general nature of authority and obligation in law, the role of corrective justice in tort law, the morality of risk imposition, and the relationship between legal and moral responsibility.
Risk, Harm, Interests, and Rights, in RISK: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES 190 (Tim Lewens ed., Routledge 2007).
Hart on Social Rules and the Foundations of Law: Liberating the Internal Point of View, 75 FORDHAM L. REV. 1171 (2006).
Associative Obligations and the Obligation to Obey the Law, in EXPLORING LAW’S EMPIRE: THE JURISPRUDENCE OF RONALD DWORKIN 183 (Scott Hershovitz ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2006). Law and Obligation, 50 AMER. J. JURISP. 263 (2005).
Harm, History, and Counterfactuals, 40 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1283 (2003). Method and Principle in Legal Theory, 111 YALE L.J. 1757 (2002).
Nien-hê Hsieh
Nien-hê Hsieh work focuses on the justified exercise of managerial authority. Within this area, topics of research include authority and work, the provision of assistance by multinational corporations, and incommensurable values and justified choice. He teaches courses in ethics and corporate responsibility and serves as Book Notes Editor for the Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. For 2007-2008, he will be a Faculty Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
“Justice in Production.” The Journal of Political Philosophy (forthcoming).
“Maximization, Incomparability, and Managerial Choice.” Business Ethics Quarterly (forthcoming).
“Is Incomparability a Problem for Anyone?" Economics and Philosophy 23.1: 65-80 (2007). (with Alan Strudler and David Wasserman)
“The Numbers Problem.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 34.4: 352-372 (2006).
Waheed Hussain
Amy Gutmann
University President
Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, Education, and Communication
Amy Gutmann's research addresses religious freedom, equal opportunity, race and affirmative action, education, democracy, multiculturalism, and ethics and public affairs. Her most recent book, “Identity in Democracy” (2003), analyzes the relationship between our constitutional democracy and those parts of our individual identities that are based on characteristics such as gender, race, religion, sexuality, and social ideology.
Claire Finkelstein
HOBBES’ LEGAL THEORY (work-in-progress).
Acting on an Intention, in REASON, INTENTION AND MORALITY (Gijs Van Donselaar & Bruno Verbeek eds., Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming 2007).
A Contractarian Argument Against the Death Penalty, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1283 (2006).
Hobbes and the Internal Point of View, 75 FORDHAM L. REV. 1211 (2006).
Report for British Law Commission on American Murder Law, Completed September, 2005 (available upon request), published in British Law Commission CP177 (December 20, 2005).
Merger and Felony Murder, in DEFINING CRIMES: ESSAYS ON THE CRIMINAL LAW’S “SPECIAL PORT” (Antony Duff & Stuart Green eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2005).
Kok-Chor Tan
My area of specialization is in political philosophy, and I am especially interested in problems of global justice, nationalism and human rights. Currently, I am thinking of a book-length project with the working title “Human Rights and Social Justice in a Diverse World”, and papers on luck egalitarianism. At Penn, my teaching, which reflects these interests, includes courses on global justice, political philosophy, introductory ethics, and specialized courses on topics such multiculturalism and human rights. I have also taught courses in philosophy of law, biomedical ethics, and introduction to philosophy (freshman seminar).
Justice Without Borders (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Toleration, Diversity and Global Justice (Penn State Press, 2000).
Fuller Publication List
Books
1. Justice Without Borders (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Pp. xiii + 219.
2. Toleration, Diversity, and Global Justice (Penn State Press, 2000). Pp. xii + 233.
- Reprint: Chapter six (excerpts with editorial revisions) in Cultural Politics in a Global Age, (eds.) H. Moore and D. Held (One World Publications, 2007).
Journal Articles and Essays
1. “A Defense of Luck Egalitarianism,” The Journal of Philosophy CV/11 (2008): 665-690.
2. “National Responsibility, Reparations and Distributive Justice”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 11/4 (2008): 449-464. Special issue on David Miller.
3. “Nationalisme libéral et internationalisme égalitaire”, Philosophiques 34/1 (2007): 113-131. Translated from English by J. Couture.
4. “The Boundary of Justice and the Justice of Boundaries: defending global egalitarianism,” The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence XIX/2 (2006): 319-344.
5. “Cosmopolitan Impartiality and Patriotic Partiality”, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 31 (2005). Printed in 2007.
6. “International Toleration: Rawlsian v. Cosmopolitan.” Special Issue of The Leiden Journal of International Law 18/4 (2005), pp. 685-710.
7. “Boundary Making and Equal Concern,” Metaphilosophy (2005) 36, 1/2: 50-67.
- An early and shorter version appears in Human Rights in Philosophy and Practice, eds. B. Leiser and T.D. Campbell (Ashgate/Darthmouth 2001), pp: 409-421.
- Reprinted in C. Barry and T. Pogge (eds), Global Institutions and Responsibilities (Blackwell, 2005).
8. “Justice and Personal Pursuits,” The Journal of Philosophy CI/7 (2004): 331-362.
9. "Patriotic Obligations," Monist 86/3 (2003): 434-454.
10. "Liberal Nationalism and Cosmopolitan Justice," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 5/4 (2002): 431-461.
11. "Reasonable Disagreement and Distributive Justice," The Journal of Value Inquiry 35/4 (2001): 493-507.
12. "Critical Notice of John Rawls's The Law of Peoples," The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31/1 (2001): 113-132.
- Reprinted in D. Riedy (ed.), Rawls (Ashgate, 2008)
13. "Liberal Toleration in Rawls's Law of Peoples," Ethics 108/2 (1998): 276-295.
- Reprinted in C. Kukathas (ed), John Rawls: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers (Routledge, 2002).
- Reprinted in D. Moellendorf and T. Pogge (eds.), Global Justice: seminal essays (Paragon 2008).
14. "Kantian Ethics and Global Justice," Social Theory and Practice 23/1 (1997): 53-73.
15. "Military Intervention as a Moral Duty," Public Affairs Quarterly 9/1 (1995): 29-46.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
1. “Enforcing Cosmopolitan Justice: the problem of intervention”, R. Pierik and W. Werner (eds.), Cosmopolitanism in Context (Cambridge University Press forthcoming 2009).
2. “Rights, Harms and Institutions,” A. Jagger (ed.), Pogge and his Critics (Polity forthcoming).
3. “Liberal Equality,” C. Misak (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2008): 515-550.
4. "Global Democracy: International not Cosmopolitan." D. Chatterjee (ed), Democracy in a Global World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008): 161-183.
5. “Colonialism, Reparations, and Global Justice.” J. Miller and R. Kumar (eds), Reparations (Oxford University Press, 2007): 280-306.
- An early and shorter version appeared as “Colonialism and Reparations” in Moral Issues in Global Perspective, ed. C. Koggel (Broadview Press, 2006 [2nd edition]).
6. “Liberalism and Culture: some challenges.” R. Tinnevelt and Verschraegen (eds), Between Cosmopolitan Ideals and State Sovereignty (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006): 77-88.
7. “The Problem of Decent Peoples.” D. Reidy and R. Martin (eds), A Realistic Utopia? Essays on Rawls’s Law of Peoples (Blackwell 2006): 76-94.
8. “The Duty to Protect.” M. Williams and T. Nardin (eds), NOMOS Vol. 47: Humanitarian Intervention. (NYU Press, 2005), pp.84-116.
9. "The Unavoidability of Morality." M. Williams and T. Nardin (eds), NOMOS Vol 47: Humanitarian Intervention (NYU Press, 2005), pp. 286-98.
10. "The Demands of Justice and National Allegiances." G. Brock and H. Brighouse (eds), The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005): pp: 164-179.
Short Discussion/Introduction
1. “Priority for Compatriots”, Economics and Philosophy 22/1 (2006): 115-123. Symposium on Kai Nielsen’s Globalization and Justice.
A longer paper on the same theme appears in M. Seymour and M. Fritsch (eds.) Reason and Emancipation: essays on the philosophy of Kai Nielsen (Humanity Books, 2007): 363-374.
2. With Rahul Kumar: “Introduction”, Journal of Social Philosophy, special issue on Reparations. XXXVII/3 (2006): 323-329.
Samuel Freeman
Avalon Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Philosophy and Law
Samuel Freeman works in social and political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of law. He has written books on Justice and the Social Contract, and on the political philosophy of John Rawls. He edited the Cambridge Companion to Rawls (2002), as well as John Rawls's Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy (2007) and his Collected Papers (1999). He is currently working on longer term projects on contractarianism, and on globalism and distributive justice.
Rawls, (The Philosophers Series, Routledge, 2007)
Justice and the Social Contract, (Oxford University Press, 2006)
'The Burdens of Public Justification,' Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 6 (No.1, 2007): 5-43
"Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is not a Liberal View" Philosophy and Public Affairs, 30, 2 (Spring 2002), 105-151.
“John Rawls: An Overview,” in The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Samuel Freeman, ed., 1-61.
“Deliberative Democracy: A Sympathetic Comment,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 29, 4 (Fall 2000 issue), 371-418
“Utilitarianism, Deontology, and the Priority of Right,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 23, 4 (Fall 1994), pp.313-349.
“Original Meaning, Democratic Interpretation, and the Constitution,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 21, 1 (Winter 1992), pp.3-42.
“Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 19, 2 (Spring 1990), pp.122-157.
