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)
• 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

• "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)