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Education | Courses
Offered | Research Interests | Selected
Publications
Education:
BA, Colorado College, MA,
University of Connecticut, PhD Johns Hopkins University
Courses Taught
- Political Science 270: Ethics and Politics
- Political Science 273: Marx, Marxism and the Aftermath of Marxism
- Political Science 279: Varieties of Philosophical Liberalism
- Political Science 294: When Right is Wrong and When Its Not
- Political Science 294: Citizenship and Global Justice
Professional/Research
Focus
Liberal Utilitarianism,
The New Liberalism, 19th Century British Political Philosophy, Modern
Jewish Intellectual History
Selected Publications
- Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism, Ideas in Context series (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
- “Exile and Interpretation: Popper’s Re-Invention of the History of European Political Thought,” with A. Zakai, Journal of Political Ideologies (June, 2006). Hebrew translation forthcoming in Zmanim.
- “Imagining Darwinism” in Bart Schultz and Georgios Varouxakis (eds.), Utilitarianism and Empire (Lexington, 2005)
- "English Political Theory in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries" in Gerald Gaus and Chandran Kukathas
(eds.), Handbook of Political Theory (Sage Publications, 2004).
- "Herbert Spencer," Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy, Center for the Study of Language and Information,
Stanford University, online hypertext (December, 2002)
- The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty
and Community, eds. A. Simhony and D. Weinstein, (Cambridge University
Press, 2001).
- Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer's
Liberal Utilitarianism, Ideas in Context series (Cambridge University
Press, 1998).
- "Deductive Hedonism and the Anxiety of Influence,"
special symposium on Henry Sidgwick, Utilitas, 12 (November, 2000).
- "The New Liberalism of L.T. Hobhouse and the
Re-Envisioning of the 19th Century Utilitarianism," The Journal
of the History of Ideas, 57, 3 (July 1996), pp. 487-507.
- "Between Kantianism and Consequentialism in T.H.
Green's Moral Philosophy," Political Studies, XLI, 4 (December
1993), pp. 618-35.
- "The Discourse of Freedom, Rights, and Good
in Ninteenth Centuty English Liberalism," Utilitas, 3, 2 (November
1991), pp. 245-62.
- "Equal Freedom, Rights and Utility in Spencer's
Moral Philosophy," History of Policial Thought, XI, 1 (Spring
1990), pp. 119-42.
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