Dr. David Weinstein

   Professor
   Office: Tribble C-314
   Phone: 758-5133
   Email





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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