History of Moral, Legal, and Political Thought

Members

James Clarke, Anna Eziekiel, Angela Hobbs, Robert Stern, Tim Stuart-Buttle, Elisabeth Thorsson. 

Projects

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2008-10) for Stern: Understanding Moral Obligation

2013-2018 White Rose Consortium Network: Classical Heroism in War and Peace 1914-1924 (Hobbs)

Publications

Clarke, James A. “Erhard on Right and Morality” in J. A. Clarke and G. Gottlieb (eds,), Freedom, Right, and Revolution: Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel (Cambridge University Press, in press).

Clarke, James A. “Fichte’s Theory of the State in the Foundations of Natural Right” in S. Hoeltzel (ed.), The Palgrave Fichte Handbook (Palgrave 2019), pp. 329-351.

Clarke, James A. “Fichte’s Independence These” in G. Gottlieb (ed.) 

Hobbs, Angela, ‘Women, Heroism and the First World War’ in F. Pedriali and C. Savettieri (eds.) Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), pp. 127-148.

Hobbs, Angela, ‘Who Lied? Classical Heroism and World War 1’ in E.E. Pender (ed.), a special edition of Classical Receptions Journal 10.4 (Oxford University Press 2018) pp. 376-392.

Stuart-Buttle, Tim, From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Stern, Robert The Radical Demand in Løgstrup’s Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2019)

McMullin, Irene and Stern, Robert (eds), Levinas and Løgstrup, special issue of The Monist, 105 (2020), pp. 1-134

Fink, Hans and Stern, Robert (eds), What is Ethically Demanded? K. E. Løgstrup’s Philosophy of Moral Life (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017).

Saunders, Joe. ‘Kant and Degrees of Responsibility’, in the Journal of Applied Philosophy (2019), 36.1, pp. 137-54.

Saunders, Joe. ‘Hegel, Norms and Ontology’, in History of Philosophy Quarterly (2019), 36.3, pp. 279-97.

Stern, Robert, ‘Vulnerability, Trust, and Overdemandingness: Reflections from Løgstrup’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 28 (2020), pp. 603-23.

Lewis, James H. P and Stern, Robert, ‘Commanding, Giving, Vulnerable: What is the Normative Standing of the Other in Levinas?’ in Michael Fagenblat and Melis Erdur (eds), Levinas and Analytic Philosophy: Second-Person Normativity and the Moral Life (New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 101-121.

Stern, Robert, ‘“Trust is Basic”: Løgstrup on the Priority of Trust’, in Paul Faulkner and Thomas Simpson (eds), The Philosophy of Trust (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 272-94.

Bennett, Christopher, Saunders, Joe & Stern, Robert (trans.) Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Stern, Robert Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Stern, Robert Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Stern, Robert, ‘ “My Station and Its Duties”: Social Role Accounts of Obligation in Green and Bradley’, in Nicholas Boyle, Liz Disley and Karl Ameriks (eds), The Impact of Idealism: Volume 1 Philosophy and Natural Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 299-322 .

Stern, Robert Does Hegelian Ethics Rest on a Mistake?’, in Italo Testa and Luigi Ruggiu (eds), ‘I That Is We, We That Is I’: Perspectives on Contemporary Hegel: Social Ontology, Recognition, Naturalism, and the Critique of Kantian Constructivism (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 109-26.

Watts, Dan and Stern, Robert ‘Valuing Humanity: Kierkegaardian Worries about Korsgaardian Transcendental Arguments’, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 80 (2019), pp. 424-42.