Political Utopias
Contemporary Debates
Edited by Michael Weber and Kevin Vallier
Author Information
Kevin Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, whose research focuses in political philosophy, normative ethics, political economy, and philosophy of religion. Vallier is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (Routledge, 2014) and Must Politics Be War? In Defense of Public Reason Liberalism, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Michael Weber is Professor of Philosophy, and Department Chair, at Bowling Green State University. He has published on a wide variety of topics in ethics and political philosophy, including rational choice theory, ethics and the emotions, and egalitarianism. He has also co-edited with Christian Coons three edited volumes on topics in applied ethics: Paternalism (Cambridge University Press), Manipulation (Oxford University Press), and The Ethics of Self-Defense (Oxford University Press).
Contributors:
Kevin Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. His research focuses in political philosophy, normative ethics, political economy, and philosophy of religion. Vallier is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (Routledge, 2014) and Must Politics Be War? In Defense of Public Reason Liberalism, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Michael Weber is Professor of Philosophy, and department chair, at Bowling Green State University. He has published widely in ethics and political philosophy, with special emphasis on contemporary egalitarianism, rational choice theory, and ethics and the emotions.
Laura Valentini is Associate Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on the methodology of political theory, ideal and non-ideal theory, international justice and democratic theory. She has published several articles, and a book (Justice in a Globalized World: A Normative Framework, Oxford University Press), on these topics.
David Estlund is Lombardo Family Professor of Humanities, in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science at Brown University, where he has been teaching since 1991. He edited the collection, Democracy (Blackwell Publishing 2001), and is the author of Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework (Princeton University Press 2008). He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook in Political Philosophy, (OUP 2012).
Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Political Science, and Philosophy Department Chair at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in contemporary political philosophy, with special interest in democracy, liberalism, and political epistemology. His most recent book is Engaging Political Philosophy (Routledge 2016).
Blain Neufeld is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He has written articles on a variety of topics in political philosophy, including citizenship eduction, liberal feminism, political liberty, public reason, and international justice.
Pablo Gilabert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). He has held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of Frankfurt, the Australian National University, and Princeton University. His papers appeared in journals such as The Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Political Studies and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. He is the author of From Global Poverty to Global Equality. A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).?
Alexander Guerrero is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on political philosophy, legal philosophy, moral philosophy, and social epistemology. His work has appeared in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Philosophical Studies, Legal Theory, and Ethics, among other places. He has created a free online open-access course entitled Revolutionary Ideas: An Introduction to Legal and Political Philosophy.
David Wiens is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His research has been published in numerous journals, including Economics and Philosophy, Journal of Politics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.
Gerald Gaus is the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, where he directs the program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics & Law. He is also a faculty in the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. His books include Value and Justification (CUP, 1990), Justificatory Liberalism (OUP, 1996) and The Order of Public Reason (CUP, 2011). His most recent book is The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society (Princeton, 2016). He is currently writing a book, An Evolving Moral Order: Hayekian Social Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century to be published by Oxford University Press.
Keith Hankins is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University where he is also a Research Affiliate of the Economic Science Institute. He also holds an appointment as a Research Fellow with the Centre for Ethical Leadership at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. His research focuses on a wide range of issues at the intersection of ethics and political philosophy, economics, and social psychology and has been published in Ethics and the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
Danielle Wenner is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. Wenner's research focuses on applied ethics and applied political philosophy. Recent work has emphasized the legitimacy of institutional structures and their associated incentives, as well as ethics in global health and development research, especially in low- and middle-income settings.
Rosa Terlazzo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kansas State University, and a Murphy Center Faculty Fellow at Tulane University for the 2016-2017 academic year. Her research is in social and political philosophy, with a special emphasis on adaptive preferences, well-being, and children. Her work has been published in venues including Journal of Political Philosophy, Utilitas, and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
