THOMAS CHRISTIANO APHILOSOPHERATTHEUNIVERSITYOFARIZONA

Thomas Christiano is a philosopher at the University of Arizona. He writes books and articles on moral and political philosophy and regularly teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses. Christiano's current research is in moral and political philosophy with emphases on democratic theory, distributive justice and global justice. He can be contacted at: thomasc at u dot arizona dot edu.

Selected Recent Papers and Books

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Books

• The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and Its Limits (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
• The Rule of The Many: Fundamental Issues in Democratic Theory. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996)
• Morality, Governance and Social Institutions: Reflections on Russell Hardin edited and introduced with Ingrid Crepell and Jack Knight (Basingstoke: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2017)
• Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy edited and introduced with John Christman (Oxford: Blackwell Press, forthcoming 2009)
• Philosophy and Democracy: An Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
• Modern Moral and Political Philosophy edited with Robert Cummins (New York: Mayfield Publishers, 1998)

Papers

• "The Arbitrary Circumscription of the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court," forthcoming Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
• "The Wage Setting Process: A Democratic Conception of Fair Exchange" forthcoming in Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics
• “Replies to David Alvarez, Michael Blake and David Lefkovitz,” (for a Symposium on Thomas Christiano’s Philosophy of International Law) LEAP Summer 2017
• “Democracy, Immigration and International Institutions,” Immigration, Emigration and Migration NOMOS LVII ed. Jack Knight (New York: New York University Press, 2017)
• Review Essay of Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2017
• “The Human Right to Democracy,” Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
• “Democracy, Public Equality and the Modern State: Replies to Professors Cerovac, Mladenovic, Baccarini, Zelic, Prijic-Samarzija and Ivankovic,” Annals of Croatian Political Science (2016)
• “The Tension between the Nature and the Norm of Voluntary Exchange,” in Southern Journal of Philosophy Supplement on Exploitation (2016)
• “Dworkin, State Consent and Progressive Cosmopolitanism,” in The Legacy of Ronald Dworkin ed. Stefan Sciaraffa and Will Waluchow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
• “The Legitimacy of the International Trade Regime,” San Diego Law Review (January 2016)
• “Voter Ignorance is Not Necessarily a Problem,” Critical Review: A Journal of Political and Society (vol 27), n. 3-4, pp. 253-269.
• “Deliberative Democracy,” (with Sameer Bajaj) in Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy ed. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen and Kimberlee Brownlee (London: Wiley Blackwell, 2017)
• “State Consent and Climate Change,” in Climate Change and Justice ed. Jeremy Moss (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
• “Rationality, Equal Status and Egalitarianism,” in Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Status? Ed. Uwe Steinhoff (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
• “What is Wrongful Exploitation?” Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume I 2015.
• “Self-Determination and the Human Right to Democracy,” in Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights ed. Massimo Renzo and Rowan Cruft (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• “Sen’s Case Against Perfection,” Jurisprudence Vol 5 n 2 (2014): 344-351.
• “Fairness, Equality and Agreements” Journal of Social Philosophy Special Issue on New Directions in Egalitarianism ed. Keith Hyams(December 2013)
• “An Egalitarian Argument for a Human Right to Democracy,” in Human Rights: The Hard Questions ed. David Reidy and Cindy Holder (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013)
• “Equality,” Routledge Campanion to Social and Political Philosophy ed. Fred D’Agostino and Gerald Gaus (New York: Routledge, 2013)
• “The Legitimacy of International Institutions,” Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law ed. Andrei Marmor (New York: Rouledge, 2012)
• “Democracy,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics ed. Hugh Lafollete
• "Rational deliberation among experts and citizens," in Deliberative Systems ed. John Parkinson and Jane Mansbridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• "The Legitimacy of International Institutions," in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law ed. Andrei Marmor (New York: Routledge, 2012)
• "An Instrumental Argument for a Human Right to Democracy," Philosophy and Public Affairs (Spring 2011)
• "What Is Civility and How Does It Relate to Core Democratic Values?" in Civility and Democracy in America ed. Cornell Clayton and Richard Elgar (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2012)
• "The Uneasy Relationship between Democracy and Capital," Social Philosophy and Policy (2010)
• "Immigration, Political Community and Cosmopolitanism," University of San Diego Law Review (Fall 2008)
• "Inequality, Injustice and Leveling Down," with Will Braynen Ratio (December 2008)
• "Two Conceptions of Human Dignity," Annual Review of Law and Ethics (2008)
• "Must Democracy Be Reasonable?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy (March 2009)
• "Democratic Legitimacy and International Institutions," in Philosophy of International Law ed. Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Estlund on Democratic Authority (Journal of Political Philosophy vol.17, n 2 2009)
• "A Foundation for Egalitarianism," Egalitarianism: Essays on its Nature and Justification eds. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen and Nils Holtug (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
• "A Democratic Theory of Territory and Some Puzzles about Global Democracy," Journal of Social Philosophy (2006)
• "Democracy and Authority: Reply to Wall," Journal of Political Philosophy (2006)
• "Democracy" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006)
• "Why Democracy is Intrinsically Valuable," in Philosophy and Democracy (Beirut, Lebanon: Lebanese National Commission of UNESCO Publications, 2006)
• "Democracy and Bureaucracy," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2006)
• "Does Religious Toleration Make Any Sense?" in Social Philosophy ed. Laurence Thomas (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006)
• "Political Authority," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2004)
• "Is Normative Rational Choice Theory Self-Defeating?" Ethics, October 2004
• "An Argument for Equality and against the Leveling Down Objection," in Topics in Contemporary Philosophy: Social Justice and the Law ed. Harry Silverstein (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming in 2005)
• "Legal Positivism and the Nature of Legal Obligation," (with Stefan Sciaraffa) Law and Philosophy (July) 2004
• "Democracy and Liberal Rights," Law Review of the University of Torcato di Tella (Argentina)(in Spanish and English)
• "The Authority of Democracy," Journal of Political Philosophy (Fall 2004)
• "Democracy and Social Epistemology," Philosophical Topics (2002)
• "Is There Any Basis for Rawls�s Duty of Civility?" The Modern Schoolman (2002)
• "Knowledge and Power in the Justification of Democracy" Australasian Journal of Philosophy (June, 2001)
• "Waldron on Law and Disagreement" Law and Philosophy (July 2001)
• "Cohen on Incentives and Inequality," in Value, Ethics and Economics ed. Gerald Gaus and Julian Lamont (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming)
• "Is Democracy Merely a Means to Justice?" in Real Libertarianism Assessed: Political Theory after Van Parijs ed. Andrew Williams (London: Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2003)
• "Justice and Disagreement at the Foundation of Political Authority," Ethics October 1999
• "The Significance of Public Deliberation," in Deliberative Democracy ed.James Bohman and William Rehg (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1998)
• "The Incoherence of Hobbesian Justifications of the State," American Philosophical Quarterly January 1994
• "Social Choice and Democracy," in The Idea of Democracy ed. David Copp, Jean Hampton and John Roemer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
• "Difficulties with Equal Opportunity for Welfare," Philosophical Studies May 1991
• "Sidgwick on Desire, Pleasure and the Good," in Henry Sidgwick as Philosopher and Historian ed. Reynolds B. Schultz (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991)