Curriculum Vitae -- Thomas Christiano 10/05/20181
Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Christiano
May 2013
Personal Information
Home address:Office address:
6090 E. Territory Ave. Department of Philosophy
Tucson, AZ 85750University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Email: thomasc at email dot arizona dot edu
Chronology of Education
University of Illinois at ChicagoPh.D. Philosophy 9/81-4/88
Doctoral Dissertation: Democracy and Equality (Advisor: Richard Kraut)
University of ChicagoMA Philosophy 9/80-6/81
State University of New York at BuffaloBA Philosophy 9/77-6/80
Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)Baccalaureat Philosophie, 9/75-6/77
Chronology of Employment
Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Arizona 7/04-
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Arizona 9/00-6/04
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona 8/96-
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona 8/90-7/96
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow of the College of the University of Chicago 7/88-6/90
Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin 9/87-6/88
Honors and Awards
Uppsala Forum Fellow, University of Uppsala, Sweden October 2011.
Visiting Faculty Fellow, Princeton University Center for Human Values, 2010-11
Outstanding Faculty in the Honors Program of the University of Arizona, 2008-2009
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Summer 2007
Udall Center for Public Policy Studies, University of Arizona, Fellow, Spring 2007
Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Fall 2004
Fellow of the National Humanities Center, Fall 1999-Spring 2000
Visiting Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford Fall 1997
Lecturer at the Summer Institute for Political Science in Odessa, Ukraine, Summer 1997
(Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies at the University of Maryland)
Visiting Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Society, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia Summer 1997
Overall Most Distinguished Teaching Award in Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1996-97
Fellow of the Udall Center for Public Policy Studies, University of Arizona, 1993-1994
NEH Summer Stipend for the Summer of 1992 for a project on Democratic Institutions
Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Ethics, Rationality, and Society at the University of Chicago (Director: Jon Elster) 7/86-6/87.
Publications
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) Focus Series.
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)
Articles
“Equality, Fairness and Agreements,” Journal of Social Philosophy (forthcoming)
“Self-Determination and the Human Right to Democracy,” in Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights ed. Massimo Renzo and Rowan Cruft (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, 2013)
“Sen’s Case Against Perfection,” Jurisprudence (forthcoming 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: Routledge, 2012)
“Democracy,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics ed. Hugh Lafollete
“Rational Deliberation between Experts and Citizens,” in The Deliberative System ed. Jane Mansbridge and John Parkinson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
“What is Civility and How Does It Relate to Core Democratic Values?” in Civility and Democracy in America: A Reasonable Understanding ed. Cornell Clayton and Richard Elgar (Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 2012)
“Money and Politics,” Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy ed. David Estlund (Oxford University Press, 2012)
“An Instrumental Argument for a Human Right to Democracy,” Philosophy and Public Affairs Spring 2011
“Is Democratic Legitimacy Possible for International Institutions?” Global Democracy ed. Mathias Koenig Archibugi, Raffaele Marchetti, Daniele Archibugi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011)
“Reply to Critics of The Constitution of Equality,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy forthcoming 2011
“Authority,” Encyclopedia of Leadership ed. Richard Couto (New York: Sage Publishers, 2010)
“The Uneasy Relationship between Democracy and Capital,” Social Philosophy and Policy (forthcoming 2010)
“Estlund on Democratic Authority,” Journal of Political Philosophy (March, 2009)
“Immigration, Political Community and Cosmopolitanism,” University of San Diego Law Review (December 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 (Winter 2009)
“Democratic Legitimacy and International Institutions,” in Philosophy of International Law ed. Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
“Democracy,” in Issues in Political Theory ed. Catriona McKinnon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
“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 (forthcoming 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, forthcoming 2006)
“Democracy and Bureaucracy,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming 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,” forthcoming in the Law Review of the University of Torcato di Tella (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)
“Democracy,” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences (Elseviers, 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 (New York: Rodopi 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
“Anderson on Luck Inequality,” in Brown Electronic Article Review Service ed. David Estlund and David Sobel July 1999.
"Political Equality and the Independent Power of Private Property," in Problems for Democracy ed. Mary Lenzi and John Kultgen in Value Inquiry Book Series (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, forthcoming)
“Justicia Social E Incentivos Privados,” [“Social Justice and Private Incentives”] in Justicia Social Y Pobreza [Social Justice and Poverty] ed. Francisco Javier Sales Heredia (Campeche, Mexico: Universidad Autonoma de Campeche, 1999)
‘Commentary on “Cannibal Democracies”’ Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law Winter 1999
"The Significance of Public Deliberation," in Deliberative Democracy ed.James Bohman and William Rehg (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1998)
"Richardson on Deliberative Democracy," The Modern Schoolman.(November 1997)
"Democracy," Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York: MacMillan Press, 1997).
“Deliberative Equality and Democratic Order” Political Order: NOMOS XXXVIII-- Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ed. Russell Hardin and Ian Shapiro (New York: New York University Press, 1996)
“Is the Participation Argument Incoherent?” Philosophical Studies (April 1996)
“Voting and Democracy,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy (October 1995)
“Secession, Democracy and Distributive Justice,” Arizona Law Review (April 1995)
“Democratic Equality and the Problem of Persistent Minorities,” Philosophical Papers (January 1995)
“Can We Make Sense of Democratic Communication Among Equals?” Initiative: Report of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy (Fall 1994)
“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)
"Democracy," Encyclopedia of Ethics ed. Lawrence Becker (New York: Garland Press, 1992).
“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)
"Political Equality" in Majorities and Minorities: NOMOS XXXII -- Yearbook of the American Society for Legal and Political Philosophy, ed. John Chapman and Alan Wertheimer (New York: New York University Press, 1990).
"Freedom, Consensus and Equality in Collective Decision Making" Ethics October 1990.
Work in Progress
“Self-Determination and the Human Right to Democracy”
“Fairness, Equality and Agreements”
“What is Wrongful Exploitation?”
“Fairness and Legitimacy in International Institutions”
“Rationality, Equal Status and Egalitarianism”
The Nature and Foundations of Equality book project contracted with Blackwell Publishers
“Immigration and Legitimacy”
“Climate Change and International Institutions”
Public Presentations
May, 2013: “Disagreement and the Justification of Democracy,” Keynote Address, University of Alberta Graduate Student Conference on Disagreement, Edmonton Alberta.
April, 2013: “Fairness and Legitimacy in International Law Making,” Conference on World Government, International Studies Association Meetings, San Francisco CA.
March, 2013: “Self-Determination and the Human Right to Democracy,” Conference on Human Rights in Honour of James Nickel, Duke University Durham NC
Jan, 2013: “Equality, Fairness and Agreements,” Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Canada
Jan, 2013: “Fairness and Legitimacy in International Law Making,” Simon Fraser University President’s Colloquium on Global Justice
Jan, 2013: “Immigration and International Institutions,” New Orleans NOMOS Meeting on Immigration and Migration.
Dec, 2012: "Comments on Des Bray and James" Atlanta Georgia. Eastern Division of American Philosophical Association.
Nov, 2012: "Fairness and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" University of Antwerpen, Belgium. Conference on The State of Jurisprudence.
Nov, 2012: "Rationality, Equal Status and Egalitarianism" University of Hong Kong, China. Conference on Basic Equality.
Sept, 2012: "Fairness and the Legitimacy of International Institutions CANCELLED" New OrleansAmerican Political Science Association. Submitted. The conference was completely cancelled due to Hurricane Isaac
Sept, 2012: "Fairness, Equality and Exploitation" Winnipeg, Manitoba. Department of Philosophy, University of Manitoba.
Sept, 2012: "Self Determination and the Human Right to Democracy" Winnipeg, Manitoba. Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics.
Aug, 2012: "Fairness, Equality and Exploitation" Keynote Address Boulder Colorado. Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference RoME.
June, 2012: "Fairness and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" Barcelona, Spain. Conference on Authority of Global Institutions at the University of Pompeu Fabra.
June, 2012: “An Egalitarian Argument for a Human Rights to Democracy,” Annual LEAP Lecture at University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelone Spain.
July, 2012: "An Egalitarian Argument for a Human Right to Democracy" University of Basel, Switzerland. Basel Democracy Conference.
April, 2012: "Climate Change and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" Montreal, Canada. Montreal Workshop on Climate Change.
April, 2012: "Arguments for a Human Right to Democracy" College of Law University of Arizona.
April, 2012: "Fairness in the Making of Agreements" University of Arizona. PPEL Forum Lecture.
March, 2012: "Fairness and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" Melbourne, Australia. ConferenceMelbourne Workshop on Democracy.
Feb, 2012: "Rational Deliberation Among Citizens and Experts" Chicago Illinois. Central Division Meetings of American Philosophical Association.
Jan, 2012: “Sen on Justice” Conference on Collective Choice National Humanities Center.
Dec, 2011: "Fairness and Legitimacy in International Institutions" San Diego State University. Distinguished Lecture.
Nov, 2011: "Fairness in the Making of Agreements" Sociology Department, University of Arizona. Sociology Brownbag.
Nov, 2011: "State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" Law and Philosophy Center of the Law School of University of Texas, Austin.
Oct, 2011: "State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden. Conference on Global Justice.
Oct, 2011: "State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" Department of Government, University of Uppsala.
Oct, 2011: "Fairness and Legitimacy in International Institutions" Uppsala Forum Fellows Lecture, Department of Government, University of Uppsala.
Sept, 2011: "Comments on Multi-Rights Project" University of Oslo, Norway. Conference of Muli-Rights Project.
Sept, 2011: "Comments on Anna Stilz’s Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation and the State" Seattle, WA. American Political Science Association Meetings.
Aug, 2011: "State Consent, Democratic Principles and International Institutions" University of Frankfurt, Germany. World Congress on the Philosophy of Law.
July, 2011: "State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" Keynote Address, University of Warwick, UK. Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Meetings.
July, 2011: "State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" London School of Economics. LSE Conference on the Global Demos.
May, 2011: "State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" Center Ethics and Society, Stanford University. Stanford Political Theory Workshop.
May, 2011: "The Legitimacy of the Security Council" (Government/Policy Audiences)Location: United Nations University, New York. Conference on Legitimacy and the United Nations.
April, 2011: "Democracy, Legitimacy and International Institutions" Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mini conference on Global Justice and Democracy.
April, 2011: "An Instrumental Argument for a Human Right to Democracy" Department of Philosophy Duke University.
April, 2011: "Tasioulas on Human Rights" Duke University. Conference on manuscript of John Tasioulas on Human Rights.
March, 2011: "Civility and Democracy" Foley Institute, Washington State University, Pullman. Conference on Civility and Democracy in America.
March, 2011: "State Consent and the Legitimacy of International Institutions" University of Pennsylvania Institute for Law and Philosophy. Law and Philosophy Workshop.
Feb, 2011: "The Legitimacy of International Institutions" Princeton University Center for Human Values. Rockefeller Fellows Workshop.
Jan, 2011: "The Legitimacy of International Institutions" University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill Workshop on Political Authority and Obligation.
Dec, 2010: "The Constitution of Equality" Law School, Columbia University. Joseph Raz's seminar on Democracy.
Dec, 2010: "Is Democratic Legitimacy Possible for International Institutions?" Columbia University. ConferenceColumbia Seminar in Political and Social Thought.
Dec, 2010: "The Deliberative Society" Panel Discussant Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Nov , 2010: "Is Democratic Legitimacy Possible for International Institutions?" National Autonomous University of Mexico. ConferenceDepartment of Philosophy.
Nov , 2010: "An Instrumental Argument for a Human Right to Democracy" Department of Philosophy, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Oct , 2010: "Is Democratic Legitimacy Possible for International Institutions?" University of Southern California. Conference on Authority.
Oct 1, 2010: "An Instrumental Argument for a Human Right to Democracy" Department of Philosophy, McMaster University,London, Ontario.
Oct , 2010: "Is Democratic Legitimacy Possible for International Institutions?" Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. Conference on Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism.
“Is Democratic Legitimacy Possible for International Institutions?” Conference on Extremism and Democracy at Central European University, Budapest Hungary, July 2010 and Conference on Human Rights and International Institutions at University of Stirling, Scotland July 2010
Instructor in Course on Experiences of Freedom, Summer University at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary July 2010
Commentator on two papers, "Fairness and Climate Change" and "Idealization in Political Philosophy" Conference on Method in Political Philosophy, Swedish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Uppsala, Sweden June 2010
“Citizens and Experts in Large Scale Democratic Deliberation,” Harvard Bioethics Conference, Cambridge MA, April 2010
“An Instrumental Argument for a Human Right to Democracy” at Keller Center for Constitutional Rights, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 2010, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern California March 2010, Political Theory Workshop, University of California, San Diego, March 2010
“Immigration and Cosmopolitanism,” Conference on Immigration University of LaVerne Law School, February 2010
“The Object of Fair International Negotiation,” European Consortium of Political Research in Potsdam September 12, 2009 and Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents Conference University of Oslo, Norway October 16, 2009.
“Arguments for a Human Right to Democracy,” The Victoria Colloquium in Political, Social and Legal Theory, February 2010, Department of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, Sweden October 12, 2009 and RoME Conference in Boulder Colorado, August 9th, 2009.
Liberty Fund Conference on Immigration, Freedom and Self-determination in Tucson Arizona October 2009.
“Estlund on Procedural Fairness,” American Political Science Association Meetings, Toronto Sept 4, 2009.
Commentator on “Equality and Time,” by Paul Abu Habib at Egalitarianism Conference at Exeter University, UK, June 27th, 2009.
“The Structure of Large Scale Democratic Deliberation,” Conference on the Deliberative Society, York University, UK, June 22, 2009.
“Response to Critics of The Constitution of Equality,” Author Meets Critics, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Vancouver Canada April 2009.
“Arguments for a Human Right to Democracy,” Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee and Department of Philosophy Wake Forrest University, March 2009.
Main Organizer of and commentator in Politics, Philosophy and Economics Conference on the Legitimacy of International Institutions New Orleans February 2009.
“The Object of Fair International Negotiation,” Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association February 2009.
“Response to Critics of The Constitution of Equality,” Conference on The Constitution of Equality, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK January 2009.
“Arguments for a Human Right to Democracy,” Political Philosophy Workshop, University of Arizona, November 2008.
Liberty Fund Conference on New Theories of Democratic Failure in Indianapolis, Indiana October 2008.