Political Philosophy

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Michael Blake
Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance
Carina Fourie
Associate Professor, Benjamin Rabinowitz Chair in Medical Ethics
Stephen Gardiner
Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment/Director, Program on Ethics
José Jorge Mendoza
Associate Professor
Amelia Wirts
Assistant Professor

Latest News

New book, Nature and Justice, from Professor Emeritus David Keyt (July 19, 2017)

Related Research

“The Latinx Racial Disintegration Thesis: Whiteness, Democracy, and Latinx Identity” in Latinx Philosophy: An Anthology, ed. Manuel Vargas, Lori Gallegos, and Francisco Gallegos, New York, NY: Routledge (2025): 420-442.
Stephen M. Gardiner and Arthur R. Obst, Dialogues on Climate Justice (Routledge, 2023)
Fourie, Carina. “‘How Could Anybody Think That This Is the Appropriate Way to Do Bioethics?’ Feminist Challenges for Conceptions of Justice in Bioethics.” In The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics. Routledge, 2022.
Review of Alex Sager, Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People (New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020) in Radical Philosophy Review 25.1.
Mendoza, José Jorge. "The Border Security Industry and the Second Refugee Crisis." Puncta 5 no.3 (2022): 72-81.
Fourie, Carina. “How Being Better Off Is Bad for You: Implications for Distribution, Relational Equality, and an Egalitarian Ethos.” In N. Stoljar and K. Voigt (ed.) Autonomy and Equality: Relational Approaches. Routledge, 2022.
Mendoza, José Jorge. "Decolonizing Immigration Justice" in Latin American Immigration Ethics, edited by Amy Reed-Sandoval and Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, 44-70. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2021.
Michael Ball-Blakely, "Transnational Capitalism and Feudal Privilege: Open Borders as a Tool for Non-Domination," APA Public Philosophy Blog, (June 1, 2021) https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/06/01/transnational-capitalism-and-feudal-privilege-open-borders-as-a-tool-for-non-domination/
Michael Ball-Blakely, "Migration, Mobility, and Spatial Segregation: Freedom of Movement as Equal Opportunity," Essays in Philosophy 22, no 1/2 (January 2021): 66-84.
Mendoza, José Jorge. "Socially Undocumented Oppression: 'Goldilocks' Liberalism or Something New?" Philosophy Today 64 no. 4 (2020): 973-977.

Political Philosophy

Michael Blake

Carina Fourie

Stephen Gardiner

José Jorge Mendoza

Amelia Wirts