Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften

Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Essex, UK

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

April−July 2010

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

»How (not) to do political philosophy: on ideal theory«

Funding of the stay:

Selected publications:

Disputing the Political: Habermas and Rawls, co-edited with Gordon Finlayson, London: Routledge, 2011.
The Legacy of John Rawls, co-edited with Thom Brooks, London: Continuum, 2005; paperback edition 2007.
» Adorno’s Ethics Without the Ineffable«, Telos 115 (forthcoming Summer 2011).
»Taking reasonable pluralism seriously: an Internal Critique of Political Liberalism«, Philosophy, Politics & Economics (forthcoming 2011).
»Hat hier jemand gesagt, der Kaiser sei nackt? Eine Verteidigung der Geussschen Kritik an Rawls’ idealtheoretischem Ansatz’, co-authored with Jörg Schaub, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 3: 58 (2010), pp. 457-77.
»Personal autonomy and mental capacity«, Psychiatry 8.12 (December 2009), pp. 465-467.
»Mental Capacity And Judgmental Autonomy: An Interdisciplinary Challenge«, co-authored with G.S. Owen, G. Richardson and M. Hotopf, Inquiry 52.1 (2009), pp. 79-107.
»On Allison and the Timelessness of the Intelligible Self«, Kantian Review 13.2 (Autumn 2008), pp.67-84.
Chapters:
»No Easy Way Out: Adorno's Negativism and the Problem of Normativity«, in: S. Giacchetti (ed.): Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future: Critical Theory, Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press 2009, pp. 39-50.
»Moral Philosophy«, in D. Cook (ed.): Adorno – Key Concepts, London: Acumen Press, 2008, Ch. 6.