Thomas Christiano

Thomas Christiano (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago), Professor of Philosophy and Law, has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has been a Fellow of the National Humanities Center in Durham NC and a Fellow of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. He is Associate Editor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Sage Publishers). He has published papers and books in the areas of democratic theory, distributive justice, moral philosophy and political philosophy. He is now engaged in projects on the foundations of equality as a principle of distributive justice and on the basis of international justice. He is finishing a book entitled The Constitution of Equality to be published by Oxford University Press. He has published The Rule of the Many (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996). He has edited Philosophy and Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) and Modern Moral and Political Philosophy (with Robert Cummins) (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishers, 1999). Some of his recent papers are “The Authority of Democracy,” Journal of Political Philosophy August 2004; “Is Normative Rational Choice Theory Self-Defeating?” Ethics, October 2004; “A Foundation for Egalitarianism,” in Egalitarianism ed. Nils Holtug and Kasper Lippert-Rassmussen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); “Does Religious Toleration Make Any Sense?” in Social Philosophy ed. Laurence Thomas (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2006); “Democracy and Bureaucracy” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2005); “Legal Positivism and the Nature of Legal Obligation,” (with Stefan Sciaraffa) Law and Philosophy (July) 2004; “Democracy and Social Epistemology,” Philosophical Topics (2002); “Waldron on Law and Disagreement” Law and Philosophy (July 2001); “Knowledge and Power in the Justification of Democracy” Australasian Journal of Philosophy (June, 2001); and “Justice and Disagreement at the Foundation of Political Authority,” Ethics October 1999; “Democratic Equality and the Problem of Persistent Minorities,” Philosophical Papers (January 1995); “Social Choice and Democracy,” in The Idea of Democracy ed. David Copp, Jean Hampton and John Roemer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) and “Sidgwick on Desire, Pleasure and the Good,” in Henry Sidgwick as Philosopher and Historian ed. Reynolds B. Schultz (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Contact Professor Christiano at:

Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0027

thomasc AT u DOT arizona DOT edu