Justin Tosi
PhD Student
I am a second-year PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of Arizona. My area of specialization is political philosophy.
I'm most interested in the philosophy of punishment. Punishment is an interesting topic to write about because it requires engagement with issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy, and involves occasional run-ins with free will, personal identity, philosophy of action, and whatever else one is creative enough to come up with. So writing about punishment means you get to work on all of these areas. It's also a worthwhile topic, since, as practically everyone agrees, actual penal practices leave much to be desired.
My other interests include:
- topics in political philosophy: liberalism, civic republicanism, perfectionism, freedom, political obligation
- topics in the philosophy of law: philosophy of criminal law, the concept of law
- normative ethics, especially virtue ethics
- the history of political philosophy, especially ancient and early modern
For more, see my CV.
For more about political philosophy at the University of Arizona, visit the Freedom Center website.
last update: 11/5/09
I only read books with pictures.