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

            NyikosPolitics, 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. AldershotAshgate, 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 PhilosophyJournal of Hellenic Studies (forthcoming).

 

Review of Christina TarnopolskyPrudes, Perverts, and TyrantsPlato's Gorgias and the

             Politics of Shame, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie (forthcoming).

 

Review of Steven J. WulffA Philosophical Theory of Citizenship: Obligation, Authority, and

            MembershipPerspectives 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 OberAthenian LegaciesPerspectives on Politics, 4 (2006), 572-73.

 

Review of Patrick DeneenDemocratic FaithReview of Politics, 68 (2006).

 

"Democracy and Liberty: Extending the Paradigm." Review of H. Richardson, Democratic

            Autonomy; I. Shapiro, The State of Democratic Theory; C. KukathasThe Democratic

            Archipelago; R. GoodinReflective DemocracyReview of Politics, 67 (2005), 135-52.

 

Review of W. Edmundson, Three Anarchical Fallacies, Review of Politics, 61 (1999), 536-38.

 

Review of G. GausJustificatory 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 SaxonhouseFear of Diversity: The Birth of Political Science in Ancient

            Greek Thought. Journal of Politics, 56 (1994), 546-8.

 

"Feature Review" of William GalstonLiberal Purposes. With Lawrence Becker, Journal of

            Politics, 54 (1992), 1173-78.

 

Review of David SchmidtzThe Limits of Government. Political Theory, 20 (1992), 164-67.

 

Review of Stephen SalkeverFinding 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. StalleyAn 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