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John Christman

Professor of Philosophy, Political Science and Woman'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
  • "Normative Self-Constitution and Individual Autonomy" in Michael
    Kühler and Nadja Jelinek, eds. Autonomy and the Self: Norms,
    Freedom, and Commitment    , (Springer, 2012), 165-84
  • "Autonomy, Social Selves, and Intellectual Property Claims" in
    Annabelle Lever, ed. New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual
    Property     (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 33-57.
  • The Myth of Property: Toward an Egalitarian Theory of Ownership
    Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1994
  Current Projects:
  • "Freedom From the Shadows of Slavery" (book project) and "Freedom,
    Autonomy, and Social Selves" in Bruce Baum, ed. Isaiah Berlin and
    the Politics of Freedom: 'Two Concepts of Liberty' 50 Years Later

 

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