James Bohman



Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, USA (Mo.)

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:
June/July 2010

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:
»Normative Probleme komplexer politischer Systeme«

Funding of the stay:
Excellence Cluster »The formation of normative orders«

While at the Institute, Professor Bohman works together with Professor Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Professor of Philosophy at Frankfurt University and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence.

Scholarly profile of James Bohman


Main areas of research:
political philosophy (deliberative and transnational democracy), philosophy of social science (rationality and normativity), German philosophy (Critical Theory and German Idealism)

Selected publications:
  1. »Constituting Humanity: Universal Political Rights and the Human Community«, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).
  2. »The Republic of Humanity: The Cosmopolitan Imperative of Democratic Non-domination«, in: Cécile Laborde and J. Maynor (eds):Republicanism and Political Theory,London: Basil Blackwell, forthcoming.
  3. »Beyond the Democratic Peace: An Instrumental Argument for Transnational Democracy«, Journal of Social Philosophy37:1 (2006), pp. 127-138.
  4. »Is Democracy a Means to Global Justice? Human Rights and the Democratic Minimum«, in: Ethics and International Affairs19:1 (2005), pp. 101-116.

James Bohman is the director of the Critical Theory Roundtable and co-director of the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable with Paul Roth and Alison Wylie, both of which meet on a yearly basis.
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