Thomas Christiano
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1988
Political Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy
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Political Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy
Thomas Christiano (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago), Professor of Philosophy and Law, has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has been a Fellow of the National Humanities Center in Durham NC and a Fellow of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. He is Associate Editor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Sage Publishers).
Current Research
He has published papers and books in the areas of democratic theory, distributive justice, moral philosophy and political philosophy. He is now engaged in projects on the foundations of equality as a principle of distributive justice and on the basis of international justice. He is finishing a book entitled The Constitution of Equality to be published by Oxford University Press. Some of his recent papers are “The Authority of Democracy,” Journal of Political Philosophy August 2004; “Is Normative Rational Choice Theory Self-Defeating?” Ethics, October 2004; “A Foundation for Egalitarianism,” in Egalitarianism ed. Nils Holtug and Kasper Lippert-Rassmussen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); “Does Religious Toleration Make Any Sense?” in Social Philosophy ed. Laurence Thomas (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2006); “Democracy and Bureaucracy”Selected Publications
He has published The Rule of the Many (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996). He has edited Philosophy and Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) and Modern Moral and Political Philosophy (with Robert Cummins) (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishers, 1999).Teaching
- PHIL 199
- PHIL 299
- PHIL 399
- PHIL 399H
- PHIL 499
- PHIL 499H
- PHIL 900
- PHIL 910
- PHIL 920
- PHIL 930