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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, syllabi for many
of my courses, 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: The Political Theory of Fundamental Moral Reform
(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); 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 translation is forthcoming from Jiangsu
People's Publishing House. My
articles, "Presumptive Benefit, Fairness and Political
Obligation," "The Principle
of 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). My
main project at the current time is editing the Oxford Handbook of the History
of Political Philosophy. Recent articles include: "Cosmopolitanism,
Political Obligation, and the Welfare State," Political Theory
(forthcoming); "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); and "Political
Obligation and Military Service in Three Countries, with Michael Keren and Stacy Nyikos, Politics,
Philosophy, and Economics, 2 (2003). My article,
"Political Obligation and the Natural Duties of
Justice," was recently 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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