Faculty

 

John Christman

Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women's Studies

John Christman Education:
  • B.A., University of New Orleans
  • M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
  • Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Areas of Specialization:
  • Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy
  • Moral Theory
  • Aesthetics
Recent Courses:
  • Politics and Social Theory
  • Philosophy of Law
Recent Publications:
  • The Politics of Persons: Individual Autonomy and Socio-Historical Selves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays, co-edited with Joel Anderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January 2005
  • Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction. London: Routledge, 2002
  • "Saving Positive Freedom" Political Theory 33 no.1 (February, 2005), 79-88
  • "Narrative Unity as a Condition of Personhood" Metaphilosophy, 35 no. 5 (October 2004), 695-713
  • "Relational Autonomy, Liberal Individualism, and the Social Constitution of Selves" Philosophical Studies, 117 (2004): 143-164
  • "Liberty, Autonomy, and Self-Transformation", Social Theory and Practice 27 no. 2 (April, 2001), 185-206.
  • "Political Autonony and Liberal Legitimacy" in James Taylor, ed. Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 277-298
  • "Feminism and Autonomy" in Dana Bushnell, ed., Nagging Questions Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, 17-39
  • The Myth of Property: Toward an Egalitarian Theory of Ownership Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1994
  Current Projects:
  • "Freedom and Slavery" (book project) and "Normative Self-Construction and Individual Autonomy" forthcoming in Michael Kuhler and Nadja Jelineks, eds. Autonomy and the Self - Norms, Freedom, and Commitment

 

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