Duncan Ivison
I teach in the Department of
Philosophy at the University
of Sydney.
I have also taught in the the Department of
Political Science at the University
of Toronto;
the Department of Politics at the University
of York (UK) and
was a Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Research
School of Social Sciences at the ANU. I did my BA at McGill
University in Montreal, where I grew up, and my MSc and PhD at
the London
School of Economics and
Political Science.
I am currently Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, one of 4 Schools in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney. 'SOPHI' is made up of the Departments of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, Gender and Cultural Studies, History, and Philosophy.
I have been Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, and Visiting Fellow in Ethics and Public Affairs, at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University (2002-3), as well as Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU (1997).
I work in three main areas: political theory, the history of political thought and ethics. I've published four books: The Self at Liberty: Political Argument and the Arts of Government (Cornell UP, 1997); Postcolonial Liberalism (Cambridge UP, 2002), which was awarded the 2004 CB Macpherson Prize by the CPSA for best book in political theory in 2002 and 2003; Rights (Acumen and McGill Queens Press, 2008); and with Paul Patton and Will Sanders, edited Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge UP, 2000; reprinted 2002).
Among my current projects include an attempt to write an intellectual history of the emergence of the concept of social justice (as a way of thinking about its future, and as a way of stepping back from the dominance of Rawlsian theories of justice in academic work on justice today); and a project funded by the Australian Research Council on 'the uneasy alliance between democracy and justice'...among a bunch of other things....
More publications stuff here (including online papers, podcasts etc.).
duncan-dot-ivisonatusyd-dot-edu-dot-au
I am currently Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, one of 4 Schools in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney. 'SOPHI' is made up of the Departments of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, Gender and Cultural Studies, History, and Philosophy.
I have been Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, and Visiting Fellow in Ethics and Public Affairs, at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University (2002-3), as well as Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU (1997).
I work in three main areas: political theory, the history of political thought and ethics. I've published four books: The Self at Liberty: Political Argument and the Arts of Government (Cornell UP, 1997); Postcolonial Liberalism (Cambridge UP, 2002), which was awarded the 2004 CB Macpherson Prize by the CPSA for best book in political theory in 2002 and 2003; Rights (Acumen and McGill Queens Press, 2008); and with Paul Patton and Will Sanders, edited Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge UP, 2000; reprinted 2002).
Among my current projects include an attempt to write an intellectual history of the emergence of the concept of social justice (as a way of thinking about its future, and as a way of stepping back from the dominance of Rawlsian theories of justice in academic work on justice today); and a project funded by the Australian Research Council on 'the uneasy alliance between democracy and justice'...among a bunch of other things....
More publications stuff here (including online papers, podcasts etc.).
duncan-dot-ivisonatusyd-dot-edu-dot-au