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Introduction to the symposium on Chandran Kukathas’s Immigration and Freedom
Published on 26 May 2026
by Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues Jinyu Sun a Department of Philosophy, Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, Chinab Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, ChinaLuís Cordeiro-Rodrigues is a full professor of philosophy and a Morning Star Scholar at Hunan University. He has published over 90 articles and works primarily in three areas: applied ethics, African philosophy, and philosophy of religion.Jinyu Sun is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University. Her research interests include collective action, political obligation, and responsibility for injustice.
The epistemic condition on political authority
Published on 24 May 2026
by Michael Da Silva Law School, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKMichael Da Silva is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, where he co-directs the Centre for Global Constitutionalism.
Immigration and the spirit of freedom
Published on 16 May 2026
by David Owen School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKDavid Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy within the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton where he has worked since 1995. His recent books include What do we owe to refugees? (Polity, 2020).
Flexible partisanship
Published on 15 May 2026
by Eduardo J. Martinez Department of Philosophy University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USAEduardo J. Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2020 and his main area of research is democratic theory. His (co-authored) book Boxed In: Making Identities Safe for Democracy was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.
On Immigration, self-determination and the state — and freedom: a reply to critics
Published on 14 May 2026
by Chandran Kukathas School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management UniversityChandran Kukathas is Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University.
Immigration, freedom and the state
Published on 9 May 2026
by Christopher Heath Wellman Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USAChristopher Heath Wellman teaches philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He works in ethics, specializing in political and legal philosophy. His most recent book, Rights and Resistance, is published by Oxford University Press.
Universal basic income and expressive freedom
Published on 1 May 2026
by Francesco Stellin Sturino Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CanadaFrancesco Stellin Sturino is a graduate of the Philosophy PhD program at McMaster University in Canada. Most of his research focuses on ethical and political challenges associated with new and emerging technologies. His writing has appeared in the academic journals Philosophy & Public Affairs (2025) and Social Theory and Practice (2023), and he is currently working alongside the University of Toronto Press on a book about free expression in the age of social media.
Migration beyond self-determination? On Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire
Published on 19 Mar 2026
by Robin Celikates Department of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, GermanyRobin Celikates is Professor of Social Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and co-director of the Center for Social Critique. He is a co-editor of the journal Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory (Duke UP) and publishes widely on critical theory, democracy, migration and social movements (see https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/RobinCelikates).
The anatomy of social dismemberment
Published on 17 Mar 2026
by Ryoa Chung Department of Philosophy, Université de Montréal, Québec, CanadaRyoa Chung is Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Université de Montréal. She is co-Director of the Center for Research in Ethics and the past President of the Canadian Philosophical Association (2024-2025). She is laureate of a research prize from the Fondation de la Croix-Rouge Française (2023). She is co-editor, with L. Eckenwiler, V. Wild, A. Gotlib, D. Zion of Forced Migration and Health Justice, Oxford University Press, 2026.
Class and racial capitalism: lessons from Valdez’ Democracy and Empire
Published on 16 Mar 2026
by Yves Winter Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, CanadaYves Winter is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University where he teaches history of political thought and contemporary political theory. His research interests include theories of violence, Marxism, and critical theory. Winter is the author of Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence (Cambridge, 2018). He has also published articles in Critical Times, Constellations, Polity, History of Political Thought, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Social Research, International Theory, and New Political Science.
Self-and-other-determination: racial capitalism and the failure of the left in the age of neoliberalism
Published on 15 Mar 2026
by William Tilleczek Department of Political Science, McGill University and L’Université de Montréal, Montreal, CanadaWilliam Tilleczek is currently Postdoctoral Fellow and Chargé de cours (Lecturer) at the Université de Montréal. His work on asceticism, citizenship, and activism has appeared in journals such as Political Theory, Global Labour Journal, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Theory and Event, and Foucault Studies. He is the 2024 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Leo Strauss Award. He is currently completing a book project under the title: The City and Self-Transformation: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Asceticism.
What’s left of democracy: introduction to the symposium on Inés Valdez’s democracy and empire
Published on 15 Mar 2026
by Catherine Lu Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, CanadaCatherine Lu is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Yan P. Lin Centre, at McGill University, as well as coordinator of the Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Justice. She is the author of Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She is a Co-Editor of International Theory.
Out of time: does popular sovereignty contain emancipatory remainders?
Published on 13 Mar 2026
by William Clare Roberts Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montréal, CanadaWilliam Clare Roberts is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, in Montreal. He is the author of Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (2017) and the afterword to Paul Reitter’s new translation of Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 (2024), both with Princeton University Press. His essays have appeared in boundary 2, Jacobin, Radical Philosophy, Spectre, Analyse und Kritik, Polity, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, The CLR James Journal, Contemporary Political Theory, and European Journal of Political Theory. He is currently at work on a book manuscript: The Radical Politics of Freedom.
Intergenerational moral inequality and the long-term future
Published on 11 Mar 2026
by Giacomo Floris Department of Philosophy, University of York, York, UKGiacomo Floris is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York. His main areas of research are in moral and political philosophy, with a particular focus on theories of moral status and basic equality, and theories of relational equality and distributive justice. He is the co-editor of How Can We Be Equals? (Oxford University Press, 2024), and his work has appeared in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Politics, Philosophy & Economics, among others.
The indeterminacy objection against emissions egalitarianism
Published on 9 Mar 2026
by Goran Duus-Otterstrom a Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Swedenb Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, SwedenGoran Duus-Otterstrom is a professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg, and a researcher in the Institute of Futures Studies, Sweden. He works on several topics in contemporary political philosophy, including climate change and legal punishment. His articles have appeared in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Change, and Law and Philosophy.
Toward an unadulterated democracy: short-termism and the crisis of accountability within generational apartheid
Published on 5 Mar 2026
by Toby Rollo Department of Political Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Reconciling public reason liberalism with animal rights
Published on 4 Mar 2026
by Constanza Guajardo Daniela Guajardo a Instituto de Éticas Aplicadas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chileb Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Warwick, Coventry, UKConstanza Guajardo is an Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Éticas Aplicadas. She holds a DPhil in Politics (Political Theory) from the University of Oxford.Daniela Guajardo is studying for a PhD in Politics and International Relations at the University of Warwick. She previously obtained a MSc in Political Theory Research at the University of Oxford.
Children (and animals) in Nozick’s political philosophy
Published on 24 Feb 2026
by Josh Milburn Arabella Fisher a Department of International Relations, Politics and History, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UKb Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, UKJosh Milburn is a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Just Fodder: The Ethics of Feeding Animals (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022), Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford University Press, 2023), and Animals, State, and Utopia: Robert Nozick’s Animal Ethics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). https://josh-milburn.com/Arabella Fisher is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University in the United Kingdom. Her research interests include libertarian philosophy, animal rights, and social anarchism. Her work has previously appeared in Res Publica and the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Utopia and the minimal state
Published on 19 Feb 2026
by Dan Moller Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USADan Moller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland and Director of the PPE Program. He is the author of Governing Least (Oxford, 2019) and such articles as ‘Keeping Ideology in its Place’ (Philosophical Studies, 2025). In addition to political philosophy, he has published widely on art, religion, and the emotions.
Symbolic values and taxation
Published on 18 Feb 2026
by Jessica Flanigan Jepson School of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and Law, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USAJessica Flanigan is the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond where she teaches in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and Law program. Her research addresses topics in bioethics, political philosophy, and business ethics. She is the author of four books – most recently Libertarianism: The Basics, coauthored with Christopher Freiman. She has published articles in venues such as Philosophical Studies, the Journal of Moral Philosophy, and the Journal of Political Philosophy.
Nozick on blackmail
Published on 16 Feb 2026
by Eric Mack Department of Philosophy, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USAEric Mack is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. His numerous publications often address topics like the moral foundations of natural rights, the nature and basis of property rights, economic justice, the scope of justifiable coercion by the state, and the right of self-defense. He has written extensively on the political philosophies of John Locke, F. A. Hayek, and Robert Nozick.
The metaethical commitments of intuition use in analytic political theory
Published on 16 Feb 2026
by Edmund Handby Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, USAEdmund Handby is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Political Science at Duke University. His research examines the nexus between normative theory and empirical facts, with a focus on conceptual change, democratic theory, and intuition-use. He has published in The Journal of Politics, the European Journal of Political Theory, and the Journal of the Philosophy of History.
Nozick, self-ownership, and the problem of self-enslavement
Published on 13 Feb 2026
by Daniel Layman Davidson College, Department of Philosophy, Davidson, NC, USADaniel Layman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College, where he serves as chair of the interdisciplinary major in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He is the author of Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2020) and (with Michael Huemer) Is Political Authority an Illusion? A Debate (Routledge, 2021). He is also Editor-in-Chief at Locke Studies. ORCID: 0000-0002-3099-1103
Nozick and the invisible hand of racial injustice
Published on 12 Feb 2026
by John Meadowcroft Department of Political Economy, King’s College London, London, UKJohn Meadowcroft is Reader in Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He works on liberal political thought and historical political economy. On Nozick he co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia with Ralf Bader and recently published an article on the idea of emergence in Nozick’s work in Public Affairs Quarterly.
When community is self-defeating: status competition in a communal economy
Published on 12 Feb 2026
by Harrison Frye Department of Political Science, University of Georgia, Athens, AL, USAHarrison Frye is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. His work investigates the ethics of markets and the ethics of online shaming. His work on these topics has been published in venues such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, and British Journal of Political Science.
Introduction: Rereading Nozick
Published on 12 Feb 2026
by Fabian Wendt Department of Political Science and David H. Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USAFabian Wendt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and core faculty member of the David H. Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Virginia Tech. His research interests include the justification of the practice of private property and its implications for distributive justice, the nature and justification of political authority, and the morality of making compromises in politics. He is the author of four books – most recently The Conduct of Politics in the Cambridge Elements in Political Philosophy series – and has published articles in venues such as Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, and Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
A Nozickian conception of liberty
Published on 11 Feb 2026
by Fabian Wendt Department of Political Science and David H. Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USAFabian Wendt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and core faculty member of the David H. Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Virginia Tech. His research interests include the justification of the practice of private property and its implications for distributive justice, the nature and justification of political authority, and the morality of making compromises in politics. He is the author of four books – most recently The Conduct of Politics in the Cambridge Elements in Political Philosophy series – and has published articles in venues such as Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, and Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
A point so fundamental: Nozick on intellectual property
Published on 11 Feb 2026
by Otto Lehto School of Law, New York University, New York, NY, USADr. Otto Lehto is a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, School of Law. He specialises in social and moral philosophy, interdisciplinary PPE research, social epistemology, naturalist metaphysics, evolutionary theory, and complexity theory. He has published in, e.g., Journal of Moral Philosophy, Constellations, Mind & Society, Economy & Society, Public Choice, and European Economic Review.
“Social relations in social justice: interactional or structural?”
Published on 9 Jan 2026
by Chris Lyon International Development Department, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United KingdomChris Lyon works in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are in the politics of development and in normative political theory, and particularly where the two overlap.
Challenging the argument from self-determination: exclusion, liberalism, and democracy
Published on 24 Dec 2025
by Tamara Crnko a Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatiab Faculty of Health Studies, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, CroatiaTamara Crnko is post-doctoral researcher currently affiliated with the Faculty of Health Studies, University of Rijeka, where she works on topics of critical thinking in education. Her main research interests are ethics and politics of migration, global justice, and more recently metaphilosophy. She published several papers in international journals, including Ethics and Global Politics.