Gerald Gaus Visiting Professor

Jerry Gaus teaches and writes in political and social philosophy, ethics, and metaethics. Much of his work has been on public justification and liberal theory. His current work focuses on the rationality of principled morality. He is currently at the Murphy Institute for Political Economy at Tulane University, and has accepted a position at the University of Arizona, to start 2006-2007.The Modern Liberal Theory of Man (1983). Theory (1990). Value and Justification: The Foundations of Liberal Theory (1990). Justification Liberalism: An Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory (1996). Public Reason, with F. D'Agostino (1998). Social Philosophy (1999). Political Concepts and Political Theories (2000). Backwards Into the Future: Neorepublicanism as a Post-Socialist Critique of Market Society," Social Philosophy & Policy (2003). Contemporary Theories of Liberalism: Public Reason as a Post-Enlightenment Project (2003). "Dirty Hands." The Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics, (2003). The Diversity of Comprehensive Liberalisms" in The Handbook of Political Theory. "Liberal Neutrality: A Compelling and Radical Principle." Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory, (2003). The Handbook of Political Theory, with Chandran Kukathas (2004). "Green's Rights Recognition Thesis and Moral Internalism." British Journal of Politics and International Relations, (2005). Other publications include: "The Place of Autonomy in Liberalism." In Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism, (2005). "Should Philosophers Apply Ethics?" Think, (2005).

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