Curriculum Vitae
George Klosko
310 Parkwood Place
Charlottesville,
Virginia 22901
434 924-3092
(Office); 434 974-7703 (Home)
gk@virginia.edu
Henry L. and
Grace Doherty Professor
Department of
Politics
P.O. Box 400787
University of
Virginia
Charlottesville,
Virginia 22901
Education
Columbia College:
September 1968 - June 1972. Degree Received: B.A. Major: Political
Science.
Columbia
University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political
Science:
September
1972 - May 1977. Degrees Received: M.A. (June 1975). M. Phil.
(October
1976).
Ph.D. (May 1977).
Dissertation: The
Politics of Philosophy: The Origin and Development of Plato's Political
Theory. Defended
March 25, 1977, with a unanimous vote of Distinction.
Academic
Employment
University of
Virginia, Department of Politics, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor,
2002-
present.
University of
Virginia, Department of Politics (until Jan. 25, 2002, Department of Government
and
Foreign Affairs). Professor: 1994 - 2002; Associate Professor:
1989-94; Assistant
Professor:
1983-89.
Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Department of Political Science.
1979-1983:
Assistant
Professor.
Columbia
University, Department of Political Science. 1976-79: Preceptor, Assistant
Professor,
Lecturer.
Books
Oxford Handbook
of the History of Political Philosophy. Editor. (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2011), pp. xiv + 840.
Aristotle. Editor. The
International Library of Essays in the History of Social and
Political
Thought (London: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.,
2007), pp. xxvi + 445.
The Development
of Plato's Political Theory, Second Edition (Oxford: Oxford
University
Press, 2006): hardcover and paperback, pp. xviii, + 287.
Political
Obligations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; paperback, 2008):
pp. x + 266.
Winner
of the 2007 David and Elaine Spitz Prize, for the best book in liberal
and/or democratic theory published in 2005. (The David and Elaine Spitz Prize is
awarded
every year by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought.)
Perfectionism and
Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory. With Steven Wall, eds. (Savage,
Maryland:
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003): hardcover
and paperback, pp. vi
+
290.
Jacobins and
Utopians: The Political Theory of Fundamental Moral Reform (Notre
Dame:
Notre
Dame University Press, 2003): hardcover and paperback, pp. xii + 200.
Democratic
Procedures and Liberal Consensus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000:
paperback,
2004): pp. viii + 271.
The Struggle for
Women's Rights. With Margaret G. Klosko, eds. (Upper
Saddle River, New
Jersey:
Prentice Hall, 1999): paperback, pp. xii + 285.
History of
Political Theory: An Introduction, 2 Volumes.
Volume
I: Ancient and Medieval Political Theory (Fort Worth,
Texas: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich,
1993): paperback, pp. xix + 346 .
Volume
II: Modern Political Theory (Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich,
1995):
paperback, pp. xxii + 485.
Second
edition, under contract with Oxford University Press. Complete mss. due
September
1,
2012.
The Principle of
Fairness and Political Obligation (Savage, Maryland: Rowman
and Littlefield
Publishers,
1992): hardcover and paperback, pp. xiii + 204.
New
Edition, with a new Introduction (Savage, Maryland: Rowman
and Littlefield
Publishers,
2004): hardcover and paperback, pp. xxvii + 204
Chinese
edition, translated by S. Mao, Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2009.
The Development
of Plato's Political Theory (New York and London: Methuen & Co.,
1986):
hardcover and paperback, pp. xix + 263.
Articles on
Modern Political Theory
"Are
Political Obligations Content Independent?" Political Theory,
39 (2011), 498-523.
"Cosmopolitanism,
Political Obligation, and the Welfare State," Political Theory,
37 (2009),
243-65.
"Multiple
Principles of Political Obligation," Political Theory, 32
(2004), 801-24.
"Duties to
Assist Others and Political Obligations," Politics,
Philosophy, and Economics, 3
(2004),
143-59.
"Samaritanism and Political Obligation: A Response to
Christopher Wellman's 'Liberal
Theory of Political
Obligation,'" Ethics, 113 (2003), 835-40.
Reprinted
in Chinese translation, in Political Obligations: Justifying and Rejecting,
S.
Mao, ed. and trans. (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2007).
"Political
Obligation and Military Service in Three Countries, with Michael Keren and Stacy
Nyikos, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 2
(2003), 37-62.
"The Natural
Basis of Political Obligation," Social Philosophy and Policy,
18 (2001), 93-114.
Reprinted
in Natural Law and Modern Moral Philosophy, E. Paul, F. Miller, J.
Paul,
eds.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
"Political
Obligation and the United States Supreme Court," with Mark
Hall, Journal of
Politics, 60 (1998),
462-80.
"Fixed
Content of Political Obligation," Political Studies, 46
(1998),
53-67.
"Political
Constructivism in Rawls's Political Liberalism," American
Political Science Review,
91 (1997), 635-46.
Reprinted,
in Hebrew translation, in History of Political Ideas, M. Keren, ed. (Tel
Aviv: The Open University,
1998).
Reprinted
in Liberalism: Critical Assessments, edited by Geoff Smith, Vol.
IV: The
Limits
of Liberalism, (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
"Political
Obligation and the Natural Duties of Justice," Philosophy and Public
Affairs, 23
(1994),
251-70.
Reprinted,
in Chinese translation, in World Philosophy, 2 (2003).
"Rawls's
Argument from Political Stability," Columbia Law Review, 94
(1994), 1882-97.
"Rawls's
'Political' Philosophy and American Democracy," American Political
Science Review,
87 (1993), 348-59.
"Reformist
Consent and Political Obligation," Political Studies, 39
(1991), 676-90.
"Four
Arguments Against Political Obligations From Gratitude," Public
Affairs Quarterly, 5
(1991),
33-48.
"The Moral
Force of Political Obligations," American Political Science Review,
84 (1990),
1235-1250.
"Parfit's Moral Arithmetic and the Obligation to Obey the
Law," Canadian Journal of
Philosophy, 20 (1990), 191-214.
"The
Obligation to Contribute to Discretionary Public Goods," Political
Studies, 38 (1990),
196-214.
"Political
Obligation and Gratitude," Philosophy and Public Affairs, 18
(1989), 352-58.
"Presumptive
Benefit, Fairness and Political Obligation," Philosophy and Public
Affairs, 16
(1987),
241-59.
Reprinted
in The Duty to Obey the Law, William Edmundson,
ed. Savage, Maryland:
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
Reprinted
in Chinese translation, in Political Obligations: Justifying and
Rejecting,
S.
Mao, ed. and trans. (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2007).
"Collective
Action Revisited" American Political Science Review, 81
(1987), 557-61 (in
"Controversy"
Section).
"The
Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation," Ethics 97
(1987), 353-62.
Reprinted
in Chinese translation, in Political Obligations: Justifying and
Rejecting,
S.
Mao, ed. and trans. (Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2007).
"Thucydides
and Hobbes' State of Nature," with Daryl P. Rice, History of
Political Thought, 6
(1985),
405-09.
Reprinted
in Hobbes, Great Political Thinkers. 3 vols., J. Dunn and I.
Harris, eds.
(Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997).
Reprinted
in Thomas Hobbes, International Library of Essays in the
History of
Political Thought,
G. Slomp, ed. (London: Ashgate, forthcoming).
"Montesquieu's
Science of Politics," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century, 189 (1980),
153-77.
Reprinted
in Charles-Louis de Secondat,
Baron de Montesquieu. International
Library
of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought
. D. Carrithers,
ed. (London: Ashgate, forthcoming).
Articles on
Plato's Political Theory
"Knowledge
and Law in the Laws: A Response to Xavier Marquez." Political
Studies, 59
(2011), 204-08.
"Knowledge
and Law in Plato's Laws," Political Studies, 56
(2008), 456-74.
"Politics
and Method in Plato's Political Theory," Polis, 23 (2006),
328-49.
"Popper's
Plato: An Assessment," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 26
(1996), 509-27.
"Persuasion
and Moral Reform in Plato and Aristotle," in Aristotle's Rhetoric,
ed. M. Meyer,
Revue Internationale de Philosophie,
47 (1993), 31-49.
"'Racism' in
Plato's Republic," History of Political Thought,
12 (1991), 1-13.
Reprinted
in Plato, Great Political Thinkers. 2 vols., J. Dunn and I.
Harris,
eds.
(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997).
Reprinted,
in Hebrew translation, in History of Political Ideas, M. Keren, ed. (Tel-
Aviv: The Open
University, 1998).
"The
Nocturnal Council in Plato's Laws," Political Studies, 36
(1988), 74-88.
Reprinted
in Plato, Great Political Thinkers. 2 vols., J. Dunn and I. Harris,
eds.
(Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997).
"Rational
Persuasion in Plato's Political Theory," in The Politics of Fallen
Man, Essays
Presented
to Herbert A. Deane, M. Goldsmith and T. Horne, eds. History of Political
Thought, 7 (1986), 15-31.
"The 'Straussian' Interpretation of Plato's Republic," History
of Political Thought, 7 (1986),
275-93.
"Provisionality in Plato's Ideal State," History
of Political Thought, 5 (1984), 171-93.
"The
Insufficiency of Reason in Plato's Gorgias," Western
Political Quarterly, 36 (1983),
579-95.
"Plato's
Utopianism: The Political Content of the Early Dialogues," Review
of Politics, 45
(1983), 483-509.
"Implementing
the Ideal State," Journal of Politics, 43 (1981), 365-89.
Reprinted
in Plato and Modern Law, R. Brooks, ed. (Ashgate Publishing
Ltd.
Aldershot 2007).
Articles on
Plato's Philosophy
"The 'Rule'
of Reason in Plato's Psychology," History of Philosophy Quarterly,
9 (1988), 341-
56.
Reprinted
in Plato, Great Political Thinkers. 2 vols. J. Dunn and
I. Harris, eds.
(Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997).
"Plato and
the Morality of Fallacy," The American Journal of Philology,
108 (1987), 612-26.
"Socrates on
Goods and Happiness," History of Philosophy Quarterly, 4
(1987), 251-64.
"The
Refutation of Callicles in Plato's Gorgias," Greece and Rome, 31
(1984), 126-139.
"Thrasymachos Eristikos:
The Agon Logon in Republic I," Polity,
17 (1984), 5-29.
"Criteria of
Fallacy and Sophistry for Use in the Analysis of Platonic
Dialogues," Classical
Quarterly, N.S. 33 (1983),
363-74.
"Dêmotikê Aretê in
the Republic," History of Political Thought, 3
(1982), 363-81.
"The
Technical Conception of Virtue," Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 19 (1981), 95-
102.
"On the
Analysis of Protagoras 351B-36OE," Phoenix,
34 (1980), 307-22.
"Toward a
Consistent Interpretation of the Protagoras," Archiv fur Geschichte der
Philosophie, 61 (1979), 125-42.
Book Chapters and
Contributions
"Jacobinism," Cambridge Dictionary
of Political Thought, T. Ball, ed. (forthcoming).
"Lexical Ordering," Cambridge
Dictionary of Political Thought, T. Ball, ed. (forthcoming).
"Plato's Political Theory," Routledge Companion to Social and Political
Philosophy,
F. D’Agostino and G. Gaus, eds. (forthcoming).
The Moral Obligation to Obey the Law," Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law,
A. Marmor, ed. (forthcoming).
"John Rawls," The Encyclopedia of Political
Thought, M. Gibbons ed. (forthcoming).
Articles on the
following subjects, in the International Encyclopedia of Political
Science (all
forthcoming):
"Aristotle"; "Consent of the Governed";
"Fairness"; "Greek
Democracy, Classical";
"Greek Political Thought, Ancient"; "Montesquieu,
Charles-Louis"; "Plato"; "Political
Obligation"; "Polybius"; "Socrates"; "Social
Contract"; "State
of Nature"; "Thucydides."
Introduction, Oxford Handbook of the History of Political
Philosophy. G. Klosko, ed.
(Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 1-7.
"Contemporary Anglo-American Political Philosophy,"
in Oxford Handbook of the History
of Political
Philosophy. G. Klosko, ed. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2011), pp.
456-79.
"Political Obligation," in Oxford Handbook of
the History of Political Philosophy. G.
Klosko, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011),
pp. 712-24.
"Rawls's Public Reason and American Society,” Reflections
on Rawls: An Assessment of his
Legacy. S. Young,
ed. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2008, pp. 23-43.
"Liberal Toleration, Recognition, and
Same-Sex Marriage: A Response to Richard Dees
and Elisabetta Galeotti," in Toleration on Trial,
I. Creppell, R. Hardin, and S. Macedo,
eds. (Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books, 2008), pp. 135-52.
"John
Simmons on Political Obligation," APA Newsletter on Philosophy
& Law, 7 (Fall 2007).
"Legitimacy,
Authority, and Political Obligation," in Legitimacy in an Age of
Global Politics,
A. Hurrelmann, S.
Schneider, and J. Steffek, eds. (London:
Palgrave, 2007), pp. 57-74.
"Politics
and Method in Plato's Political Theory," in Ernest Barker and
Classical Greek
Political Thought, Polis, Special issue, J.
Stapleton, ed., 23 (2006), 1-22.
"State of
Nature," in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. 6 vols. M.
C. Horowitz, ed. New
York: Scribner's, 2005.
"An
Empirical Approach to Political Liberalism," in Political
Liberalism: Variations on a
Theme, S. Young, ed.
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004).
"Reasonable
Rejection and Neutrality of Justification," in Perfectionism and
Neutrality:
Essays
in Liberal Theory, G. Klosko and S. Wall, eds. (Savage, Maryland:
Rowman
and
Littlefield Publishers, 2003).
"Political
Obligation," in Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences,
J. Michie, ed. (London: Fitzroy
Dearborn
Publishers, 2001).
"Misshelligkeit und Einhelligkeit der Politik mit der Moral:
Der moralische Gehalt des
"Politischen Liberalismus."
("Disagreement and Harmony Between Morals and
Politics:
The Moral Content of 'Political Liberalism,'" German translation
by
Manuel Frohlich). In Republik und Weltburgerrecht, K. Dicke and
K. Kodalle, eds.
(Weimar: Bohlau Verlag, 1998), 63-90.
"Fairness,"
in The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics,
P. Werhane and
R.
E. Freeman, eds. Malden, MA and (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers), 1997, 272-3.
"Reflective
Equilibrium and the Right to Free Speech," Human Rights: A Cross
Disciplinary
Symposium, E. Elstun, ed. Proceedings of the Virginia Humanities
Conference,
March
30-31, 1990, 35-42.
Book Reviews
(Selected)
Review of Mark
Blitz, Plato's Political Philosophy, Journal of Hellenic
Studies (forthcoming).
Review of
Christina Tarnopolsky: Prudes, Perverts,
and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and
the
Politics
of Shame, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie (forthcoming).
Review of Steven
J. Wulff, A Philosophical Theory of
Citizenship: Obligation, Authority, and
Membership, Perspectives
on Politics, 7 (2009), 184-85.
Review of David
Lewis Schaeffer. Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American
Political
Tradition, Journal
of Politics, 71 (2009), 1193-95.
Review of
Josiah Ober, Athenian Legacies, Perspectives
on Politics, 4 (2006), 572-73.
Review of
Patrick Deneen, Democratic Faith, Review
of Politics, 68 (2006).
"Democracy
and Liberty: Extending the Paradigm." Review of H. Richardson, Democratic
Autonomy; I.
Shapiro, The State of Democratic Theory; C. Kukathas, The Democratic
Archipelago; R. Goodin, Reflective Democracy. Review of
Politics, 67 (2005), 135-52.
Review of W. Edmundson, Three Anarchical Fallacies, Review of
Politics, 61 (1999), 536-38.
Review of G. Gaus, Justificatory Liberalism, Journal of Politics,
59 (1997), 611-13.
"Liberalism
and Pluralism." Review of S. Holmes, Passions and Constraint;
J. Hunter, Before
the Shooting Begins; J.
Hunter, Culture Wars; D. Johnston, The Idea of a Liberal
Theory, Social Theory and
Practice, 22 (1996), 251-68.
Review of
Arlene Saxonhouse, Fear of Diversity: The
Birth of Political Science in Ancient
Greek
Thought. Journal of Politics, 56 (1994), 546-8.
"Feature
Review" of William Galston, Liberal
Purposes. With Lawrence Becker, Journal of
Politics, 54 (1992),
1173-78.
Review of David Schmidtz, The Limits of Government. Political
Theory, 20 (1992), 164-67.
Review of
Stephen Salkever, Finding the Mean.
Journal of Politics, 53 (1991), 575-78
Review of I.F.
Stone, The Trial of Socrates, American Political Science Review, 83
(1989),
279-80.
Review of Richard
Kraut, Socrates and the State, Review of Politics, 46 (1984),
619-22.
Review of R.F. Stalley, An Introduction to Plato's Laws, American
Political Science Review,
78
(1984), 885-86.
Review of Robert
W. Hall, Plato, American Political Science Review, 77 (1983), 832-33.
Editorial Boards
Polis
International
Encyclopedia of Political Science (Editorial
Advisory Board)
Encyclopedia of
Political Thought (Review Editor)
Oxford Handbooks On
Line (Advisory Board)
American
Political Science Review (2001-07).
Academic Honors
and Awards
Endowed Chair:
Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Politics,
2002.
David and Elaine
Spitz Prize, 2007, for Political Obligations. (The David and Elaine Spitz Prize
is awarded every year by the
Conference for the Study of Political Thought for the best
book in liberal and/or
democratic theory published two years earlier.)
Invited to give
Frank M. Covey, Jr., Lectures in Political Analysis, Loyola University of
Chicago, Spring 2001.
National
Coordinator, Foundations of Political Theory, Organized Section of American
Political Science Association,
1996-98.
National
Endowment for Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1990.
University of
Virginia, Sesquicentennial Grants, 1987-88, 1993-94, 1999-2000
University of
Virginia, Summer Grants: 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2000,
2003
(declined).
Harrison Fund Salary
Bonus, one of 74 awarded to University faculty members, "selections
based entirely on merit,"
1996.
Purdue University
Summer Faculty XL Grants: 1980, 1982
Dissertation
defended with Unanimous Vote of Distinction: March 1977.
Columbia University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Traveling Fellowship, to spend
period from August 1975 to July
1976 abroad, working on dissertation in Oxford,
England.
Professional
Service
Editorial
Board, American Political Science Review, 2001 - 07.
Editorial
Board, Polis, Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought,
2005 - present.
Editorial
Advisory Board of International Encyclopedia of Political Science,
2005 - present.
Review
Editor: Encyclopedia of Political Thought
Editorial Advisory
Board, Oxford Handbooks On Line
Visiting Faculty
Member, Department of Political Science, Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary, Sept. – Nov.
2005; Sept. - Nov. 2008.
National
Coordinator, Foundations of Political Theory, Organized Section of American
Political Science Association,
1996-98.
Foundations of
Political Theory, Newsletter Editor, 1998 - 2008.
Foundations of
Political Theory, Placement Newsletter Editor, 2008 - present.
Foundations of
Political Theory, First Book Award Committee, 1991.
Foundations of
Political Theory, Chair, First Book Award Committee, 2011.
Foundations of
Political Theory, Council, 1991-94.
Program Chair,
Political Theory, Southern Political Science Association, 1993.
Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Applications Evaluator, 1992, 1993, 1994,
1995,
1996, 1997, 1998.
Visiting Review
Committee, Loyola University of Chicago, February 1992.
Co-Chair and Co-founder,
Virginia Chapter of Conference for the Study of Political Thought.
Departmental and
University Service (Selected)
University
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2007-08.
Arts and Sciences
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005-06, 2006-07.
Department
Graduate Advisor, 1994-1998: Chair of Graduate Committee; Chair of
Admissions and Financial Aid
Committee.
Chair: Committee
to Evaluate and Reform Graduate Program Rules and Requirements, 1994-
95.
Chair:
Recruitment Committees: 1991-92, 1992-93, 1997-98, 2001-02 (hired Joshua Dienstag,
Debra
Morris, Colin Bird, Stephen White); Recruitment Committee, member: 2006-07.
Chair, Promotion
and Tenure Sub-Committees: 1991-92; 1997-98, 2003-04.
Member,
Promotion and Tenure Sub-Committees: 1993-94 (two sub-committees),
1995-96,
1997-98, 2001-02.
Chair, Promotion
Sub-Committee, 2010-2011.
Chair, Renewal
Sub-Committees: 1994-95; 1995-96, 2000-01.
Member,
Renewal Sub-Committee: 1993-94, 2003-04.
Chair, Endowed
Chair Promotion Committee, 2004.
Member, Promotion
Committee, 2005.
Political and
Social Thought Program Steering Committee, 1983 - present.
Member, Political
and Social Thought Program Evaluation Committee, 2006.
Political
Philosophy, Policy, and Law, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Major, Organizing
Committee,
1998 - present.
Chair, Internal
Review Committee, for Department of Anthropology, 1998.
Head,
Departmental Distinguished Majors Program, 1988-1994.
Departmental
Honors Program, member: 1991 - present.
Referee Articles
For (at least once):
American Journal
of Political Science; American Philosophical Quarterly; American Political
Science Review;
Ancient
Philosophy; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Journal of
Political Science; Contemporary Political
Theory; Critical
Review; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Ethics; European Journal of
Political Theory; History of
Political Thought;
Inquiry; Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy; Journal of the History of
Philosophy; Journal of
Political
Philosophy; Journal of Politics; Journal of Social Philosophy; Law and Philosophy;Legal Theory: National Political
Science
Review; Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophy
of Social Science; Political Research Quarterly
(Western
Political Quarterly); Policy Studies Journal; Political Theory; Polity;
Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE);
Ratio Juris; Review of International Studies; Review of Politics;
Social Theory and Practice; Southern Journal of Philosophy;
Theoria.
Referee
Manuscripts For (at least once):
Edinburgh
University Press; Macmillan & Co.; M. E. Sharpe; Methuen & Co.; Oxford
University Press; Penguin Books;
Penn State Press;
Routledge & Kegan Paul;
Sage; University of California Press; University of Missouri Press.
Professional
Associations
American
Political Science Association; Foundations of Political Theory; International
Political Science Association
Society for Greek
Political Thought; Conference for the Study of Political Thought
Presentations
(Selected)
"The Principle of Fairness and
Political Obligation," “Explorations of Fairness” Workshop,
Peter
Wall Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia,
January
20, 2012.
"Cosmopolitanism,
Political Obligation, and the Welfare State," Brown University, October
11, 2007.
“Rawls's Public Reason and American Society,” Conference:
Reflections on Rawls: An
Assessment of
his Legacy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, August 18, 2007.
"Cosmopolitanism,
Cooperation, and the Welfare State," Columbia University, March 22, 007.
Discussant:
Symposium on "The Chickenhawk Argument,"
American Philosophical Association, Western
Division, Portland, Oregon, March
25, 2006.
"Fairness
Obligations and Multiple Principles," Murphy Institute of Political
Economy, Lexington,
Virginia, January 27, 2006.
"Fairness
Obligations and Multiple Principles," Conference: Reconsidering
Legitimacy:
Empirical
and Theoretical Explorations of a Contested Concept, Bremen Germany,
November
25, 2005.
"Political
Obligation and Fairness," Central European University, Budapest, Hungary,
May
6, 2005.
"The
Politics of Utopia," Conference: "Must Political Theory Be
Utopian?" Texas A & M
University,
College Station, Texas, February 26, 2005.
"Multiple
Principles of Political Obligation," Old Dominion University, Norfolk,
Virginia,
October
21, 2004.
"Political
Obligation and Public Opinion," Old Dominion University, Norfolk,
Virginia,
October
21, 2004.
"Empirical
and Normative in Political Obligation," Conference on Political Philosophy
and
Empirical
Research, University College London, London, May 28, 2004.
"Multiple
Principle of Political Obligation," College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg,
Virginia,
March 14, 2003.
"Political
Obligation: The Empirical Dimension," George Washington University,
Washington, D.C., October 19,
2001.
"Political
Obligation: The Empirical Dimension," with David Klein. American Political
Science
Association, August 30, 2001, San Francisco, California.
Discussant:
"Toleration and Identity Conflict Conference," George
Washington University,
Washington,
D.C., March 23-24, 2001.
"Jacobinism
and Utopianism": Frank M. Covey, Jr., Lectures in Political Analysis,
Loyola
University
of Chicago, March 12-16, 2001.
"Liberal
Consensus," Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
February
23, 2001.
"Liberal
Consensus," University of Colorado, Boulder, September 22, 2000.
Chair and
Participant, Roundtable on "Liberal Neutrality," American Political
Science
Association,
September 2, 2000, Washington, D.C.
Natural Basis for
Political Obligation," Conference on Natural Law and Modern Moral
Philosophy,
Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green, Ohio, October 8,
1999.
"Rawls's
Political Liberalism," Catholic University, November16, 1998.
"An
Empirical Approach to Political Liberalism," American Political Science
Association,
September
5, 1998.
"An
Empirical Approach to Political Liberalism," Conference on Comprehensive
and
Political
Liberalism, University of London, May 29, 1998.
"The Problem
of Values in Montesquieu's Social Science," University of Calgary,
September
26, 1997.
Chair and
Participant, Roundtable on "Political Liberalism," American Political
Science
Association,
August 29, 1997, Washington, D.C.
"Disagreement
and Harmony Between Morals and Politics: The Moral Content of 'Political
Liberalism,'"
Conference on The Foundation of Peace and Democracy: Kant and
the
Republican Tradition of Political Order, May 23, 1996, Jena, Germany
Participant:
Roundtable on Political Obligation, North American Society for Social
Philosophy,
December 28, 1992, Washington, D.C.
Chair and
Participant, Roundtable: "Gregory Vlastos and
Plato's Socrates," American
Political
Science Association Meeting, September 3, 1992, Chicago, Illinois.
"The Problem
of Values in Montesquieu's Social Science," Conference on Montesquieu
and
the Birth of the American Constitution, presented by The Committee on
Montesquieu
and the American Constitution, San Marino, California, February 21,
1989.
"What
Socrates Says, and Does Not Say," Conference on Methodological Approaches
to
Plato
and His Dialogues, April 22, 1988, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Foreign
Languages: French; Greek (Attic); German
Teaching
Courses Taught at
Virginia
Graduate:
Problems
in Contemporary Political Philosophy (Political Obligation,
Liberal
Political Theory)
Political
Inquiry (Philosophy of Social Sciences)
Introduction
to Political Theory
Marxist
Theories
Plato
and Aristotle
Seminar:
Rawls and Critics
Seminar:
Political Obligation
Seminar
in Classical Political Theory
Seminar
on The Emergence of the Modern State, with Prof. Dante L. Germino
Dissertation
Seminar
Undergraduate:
Introduction
to Political Theory
Marxism
and Its Critics
The
Duty to Obey the Law
Liberalism
and Its Critics
Morality,
Law, and the State
Interdisciplinary
Seminar on the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Modern
Political Theory
Ancient
and Medieval Political Theory
Courses Taught at
Purdue (1979-83)
Graduate:
Scope
and Empirical Theories
Undergraduate:
Ancient
and Medieval Political Theory
Modern
Political Theory
Marxism
and Its Critics
Courses Taught at
Columbia (1976-79)
Graduate:
Marxism
and Its Critics
Undergraduate:
Marxism
and Its Critics
Revolution
and the Uses of Power
Human
Nature and Politics
Contemporary
Civilization (two semesters)
Colloquium
on the History of Political Thought: Ancient and Medieval
Political
Theory, with Prof. Herbert A. Deane