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I am co-editor of Representation (with Andrew Russell). This is a journal of long standing repute. It has been publishing since 1960 and has a general interest in all matters relating the theme of representative democracy and to this end it has established itself as a recognised journal of record and comment both in the UK and internationally. We welcome papers on ideas of representation that are not parliamentary and recently expanded the journal’s remit to include normative concepts of democracy and representation.

Bob Goodin of ANU: ‘Representation is truly one of the premier journals of empirical democratic theory’

My PhD Students

I presently supervise 4 PhD students:

Chris Mills - The interplay between morality and democracy, focusing on the balance between perfectionist enlightened rule and neutral political concerns.

Stephen Cooke – The Ethics of Animal Liberation.

Stephen Hood – Democratic theory and representation.

Garvan Walshe – Libertarianism and the environment

Recently completed PhDs

Rebecca Reilly-Cooper

Contemporary democratic theory and its relationship to democratic practice. In particular, the ways in which democratic theory fails to attend to the problem of the exclusion of minority group voices from political debate and deliberation. (Passed viva December 2010)

Tom Goodwin

Dirty Hands: Inescapable Wrongdoing in Public and Private Life? (Passed viva October 2009)

Charlie Robinson

Deliberative Democracy and Social Justice.  (Passed October 2007)

Mihaela Georgieva

Political Constructivism and the Liberal Project of Public Justification (Passed August 2007)

Andrew Shorten

Treating Cultural Commitments Fairly: A Cosmopolitan Account of Multicultural Justice (Completed 2005) Winner of the Political Studies Association Sir Ernest Barker Prize for Best Political Theory Thesis 2005

My personal record

 Full name: Stephen de Wijze

Education

1998   PhD (University of Sheffield)

1990   MA - Philosophy (Stanford University)

1986   BA(Hons) Philosophy (Rhodes University)

1985   BA (University of South Africa - UNISA) - Majors: Philosophy & Psychology

1982   University Education Diploma (UED) (Rhodes University

1981   Bachelor of Commerce (B Comm) (Rhodes University) - Majors: Accountancy, Cost and Management Accountancy and Mercantile Law

Qualifications - academic and professional

Academic:      B.Comm (Rhodes); BA (UNISA) BA Hons (Rhodes University); MA (Stanford University); Ph.D (University of Sheffield).

Professional:   University Education Diploma (UED) (Rhodes University).       

Previous employment and appointments

1995       University of Sheffield - Department of Philosophy (part-time lecturer)

1991-4    Rhodes University - Department of Philosophy (permanent lecturer)   

1990-1    Rhodes University - Academic Support Programme (fixed-term lecturer)

1987-9    Rhodes University - Education Department (fixed-term lecturer)   

Present appointment

Senior Lecturer in Political Theory

•  Appointed temporary lecturer January 1998

•  Appointed to permanent lectureship September 2001

Memberships of academic and professional bodies

Political Studies Association (PSA)

Awards, scholarships and bursaries

1995   Tindall Endowed Research Scholarship (University of Sheffield, UK)

1988   Fulbright Scholarship (taken up at Stanford University, USA)

1987   Master's and Doctorate Degree Scholarship (Rhodes University, South Africa); Academic Colours (Rhodes University)

1986   Merit Award (University of South Africa); Honours Exhibition Award (University of South Africa); Graduate Assistant Bursary (Rhodes University)

           Honours Bursary (Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa); D.C.S. Oosthuizen Memorial Prize - Best Philosophy Student (Rhodes University)

Publications

Academic Journal Papers

• ‘Bellamy on Dirty Hands and Lesser Evils:  A Response’ in British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) Vol.11, No. 3, 2009: 529-540 (Co-authored with Tom Goodwin)
• ‘Shamanistic Incantations? Rawls, Reasonableness and Secular Fundamentalism’ in Politics and Ethics Review 3(1) 2007:109-128.
• ‘Tragic-Remorse - The Anguish of Dirty Hands’ in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (ETMP), 7, 2004: 453-471.
• ‘Exploring our moral emotions: the difficult case of ‘dirty hands’’ in Philosophical Papers, Special Issue, Vol. 33, No.2, 2004: 15-24.
• ‘Democracy, trust and the problem of dirty hands’ in Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Issue 10:1, Spring-Summer, 2003 ‘Special Issue- Fiduciary Ethics’: 37-42.
• ‘Complexity, relevance and character: Problems with teaching the ad hominem fallacy’ in Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT) Vol. 35, No.1 (2003):  31-56.
• Defining Evil - Insights from the problem of “dirty hands”’in The Monist, Volume 85, No. 2,(2002), 210-238.
• ‘The Political Limits of Reasonableness’ in Imprints, Vol. 6, no. 2 (2002): 171-186.
• ‘Machiavellian Thoughts on Mbeki: Between Political Cynicism & Moral Naivety’ in Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics (AJPAE), Vol.2, No.1, (2000): 61-70.
• ‘The family and political justice - the case for political liberalisms’ in The Journal of Ethics, Vol.4, No.3, (July 2000): 257-281.
• ‘South Africa and the Prospect of Political Liberalism’, in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP), Vol. 2, No. 3, (Autumn 1999): 48-80.
• ‘Rawls and Civic Education’ in Cogito, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1999): 87-93.
• ‘Teaching critical reasoning in South Africa’, in Informal Logic, Vol. 18, No.1, (1996): 57-82.
• ‘The real problem of dirty hands - reply to Kai Nielsen’ in South African Journal of Philosophy, 15 (4), (1996): 149-151.
• ‘Towards a Political Ethic: Exploring the boundaries of a moral politics’, in Philosophical Papers, Vol. XXIII , No. 3. (1994): 191-215.
• ‘Dirty hands - doing wrong to do right’ in South African Journal of Philosophy, 13 (1) (1994): 27-33.

Edited Books

· Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice (Stephen de Wijze, Matthew Kramer, and Ian Carter eds.) Routledge, 2009.

Book Chapters

· ‘Recalibrating Steiner on Evil’ in de Wijze, Kramer and Carter (eds.) Hillel and the Anatomy of Justice 2009.

· ‘Between Hero and Villain: Jack Bauer and the Problem of ‘Dirty Hands’’ in 24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack, (eds. Jennifer Hart Weed, Richard Brian Davis and Ronald Weed), The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, 2008.

· ‘Dirty Hands: Doing Wrong to Do Right’ in Politics and Morality Igor Primoratz (ed.) Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2006 (reprint of journal article).

· ‘Equality’ in Political Concepts: A Reader and a Guide (ed. Iain Mackenzie) Edinburgh University Press., 2005

· ‘Towards a political ethic: exploring the boundaries of a moral politics’ in Ruth Chadwick and Doris Schroeder (eds.) Applied Ethics - Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Volume VI, Politics, Routledge, 2002. (reprint of journal article)

· ‘Reasonableness, pluralism and democracy: a pragmatic approach’, in G. Calder, E. Garrett, and J. Shannon (eds.), Liberalism and Social Justice: International Perspectives, Ashgate Publishers, Spring 2000. 

Review Articles

• ‘Patching Holes in a Sinking Ship: ‘Democratic Deliberation Within’, a review of Robert E. Goodin, Reflective Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) in European Journal of Philosophy, 15, April 2007: 129-136.
• ‘Torture and Liberalism’ in Democratiya (7) Winter 2006.   
• ‘Moral contractualism comes of age’ - a review essay of  T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), in Res Publica, 7 (2001): 187-194. (co-authored with Jonathan Hughes)

Refereed Publications in conference proceedings

• ‘Reasonableness, pluralism and justice: a pragmatic approach’ at conference entitled The Liberal Order: The Future for Social Justice?, in Olomouc, The Czech Republic, (July 1999): 84-93.
• ‘Political Liberalism and the New South Africa’ in Current Issues in Political Philosophy - Justice and Welfare in Society and World Order, Papers of the 19th International Wittgenstein Symposium, (eds.) Peter Koller and Klaus Puhl, (August 1996): 421-426.

Book Reviews

• Kymlicka, Will. Contemporary Political Philosophy, Knowles, Dudley. Political Philosophy and  Cohen, Martin. Political Philosophy from Plato to Mao for Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) (30 November 2001)                             
• Richard Bellamy, Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise for Ethics Volume 112, No. 2,  January 2002
• Roberto Alejandro, The Limits of Rawlsian Justice (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) in Political Studies, Vol.48, No.1, March 2000.
• Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores and Hubert L. Dreyfus, Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action and the Cultivation of Solidarity (Cambridge MA., The MIT Press, 1997) in Political Studies, Vol. 47, No. 5, December 1999.
• Patricia J. Mills (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of G.W.F. Hegel, (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996) in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of  Great Britain, No. 36, (Autumn/Winter, 1997).

Book Notes

• Matt Matravers (ed.) Scanlon and Contractualism (London: Frank Cass 2003) in Political Studies Review, Vol 3, Issue 1, 2005
• Ian Shapiro The State of Democratic Theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003) in in Political Studies Review Vol 3, Issue 1, 2005.
• Chandran Kukathas The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom, (Oxford University Press 2003) in Political Studies Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2004.
• Trudy Govier A Delicate Balance: what philosophy can tell us about terrorism. (Boulder CO: Westview Press 2002) in Political Studies Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2004.
• Lukes, Steven Liberals and Cannibals (Verso 2003) in Political Studies Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2004.  (Used as sample review by Political Studies Review)
• Kimberly Hutchings and Roland Dannreuther (eds.) Cosmopolitan Citizenship (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1999) in Political Studies, Vol.48, No.1, March 2000.
• David Carroll Cochran, The Colour of Freedom: Race and Contemporary American Liberalism (Albany NY, State University of New York Press, 1999) in Political Studies, Vol.48, No.3, June 2000.
• Alan Montefiore and David Vines (eds.) Integrity in the Public and Private Domains (London and New York, Routledge, 1999) in Political Studies, Vol. 47, No. 5, December 1999.

Other Publications: Research

• ‘Essentials of Moral Conflict’ in The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics (ed. Martin Cohen) Hodder Arnold, 2006. (Encyclopaedia entry)
• PhD thesis: Political Liberalism: a consolidation, reconstruction, and defence. (University of Sheffield: 1998)

Working Papers

• ‘Learning to be political liberals - reply to Parry’, Mancept Working Paper Series, Department of Government, University of Manchester, Mancept Paper No: 7/98 (July 1998).
• ‘Outlining the “dirty hands” problem’ in Comment, Volume 8, (1993).
• ‘Critical Thinking Courses: What does it take to take them seriously?’ in Comment, Volume 5, (1991).

Other Public Output

• ‘Dismissing Hoddle - a dangerous breach of a basic right’ in After Government, Department of Government Alumni Magazine, University of Manchester, (April 1999).
• ‘Critical Reasoning and the Abortion Issue’ in Rhodesfest, Grahamstown Festival of Arts, (July 1992). 

Editorship

• Co-editor of Representation (with Andrew Russell)

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