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I
am Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor, Department of Politics, University
of Virginia (Ph.D., Columbia, 1977). This website contains links to my curriculum vitae,
many of my syllabi,
and links to the Department of
Politics and the Political Theory
Program at the University of Virginia. I also include links to some
of my publications:
about twenty-five of my articles (in different formats), some fifteen book
reviews, and reviews of five of my books in different journals. My
research interests include contemporary political theory, especially issues
in analytical and normative theory, and the history of political
thought. I teach courses in both areas: in the history of political
thought focusing on the liberal tradition and Greek political theory,
especially Plato; in contemporary, in specific aspects of liberal theory,
including problems of political obligation and the theory of John Rawls and
Rawls's critics. My books include: The Development of Plato's
Political Theory (Methuen, 1986; Second Edition, Oxford, 2006); The
Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation (Rowman and
Littlefield, 1992); Democratic Procedures and Liberal Consensus
(Oxford University Press, 2000; paperback edition, 2004); Jacobinism
and Utopianism (Notre Dame University Press, 2003); and Political
Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2005). I have also
written a two-volume introduction to the history of political theory: History
of Political Theory: An Introduction, Volume I: Ancient and
Medieval Political Theory; Volume II: Modern Political Theory
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993, 1995); second edition, under contract with
Oxford University Press. I also edited
Aristotle
for the International Library of Essays in the History of Social and
Political Thought (Ashgate, 2007),
and co-edited The Struggle for Women's Rights, with Margaret G.
Klosko (Prentice Hall, 1999) and Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays
in Liberal Theory, with Steven Wall (Rowman and Littlefield,
2003). Political Obligations
was awarded the 2007 David and Elaine Spitz Prize by the International
Conference for the Study of Political Thought, "for the best book in
liberal and/or democratic theory published two years earlier." A
new edition of The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligations
was recently published, with a new Introduction. A Chinese edition, translated by S. Mao,
was published by Jiangsu People's Publishing House in
2009. My articles, "The
Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation," "Presumptive
Benefit, Fairness and Political Obligation," and "Samaritanism and Political Obligation: A Response to
Christopher Wellman's 'Liberal Theory of
Political Obligation, have been
reprinted in Chinese translation, in Political
Obligations: Justifying and Rejecting, S. Mao, ed. and
trans. (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2007). Oxford University Press has recently published The Oxford
Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy (2011), which I
edited. Recent articles include: "Fairness Obligations and
Non-Acceptance of Benefits," Political
Studies (forthcoming). "Are Political Obligations Content Independent?" Political
Theory (39 (2011). "Knowledge
and Law in the Laws: A Response to
Xavier Marquez." Political Studies, 59 (2011), "Cosmopolitanism,
Political Obligation, and the Welfare State," Political Theory 37,
(2009);."Knowledge and Law in Plato's Laws," Political Studies, 56 (2008); "Politics
and Method in Plato's Political Theory," Polis, 23 (2006);
"Multiple Principles of Political Obligation," Political
Theory, 32 (2004); "Duties to Assist Others and Political
Obligations," Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 3 (2004);
"Samaritanism and Political Obligation: A
Response to Christopher Wellman's 'Liberal Theory of Political
Obligation,'" Ethics, 113 ( 2003); My article,
"Political Obligation and the Natural Duties of Justice," was
published in Chinese translation in the journal World Philosophy
2 (2003). Recent
professional activities include appointment to the editorial board of Polis and the Editorial Advisory
Board of the International
Encyclopedia of Political Science.
During part of the fall semester of 2005, I was a visiting faculty
member in the Department of Political Science, Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary, where I returned in the fall of 2008. |
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