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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
Professor of Political Theory
Edited Books
2019. The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Evil (co-ed. Thomas Nys) New York & London: Routledge.
2012. Thinking
Towards Humanity: Themes from Norman Geras (co-ed. E. Garrard)
Manchester: Manchester University Press.
2009.
Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of
Justice: Themes and Challenges, co-eds. M. Kramer,
and I. Carter) New York & London: Routledge.
Academic Journal Articles
2025 ‘Virtue
Authoritarianism’ The Monist Forthcoming
2024
‘Are ‘Dirty Hands’ Possible? The
Journal of Ethics. 28: 187-214.
2024 ‘Justice
is Steady Work: On the wise and temperate political thought of Michael Walzer’
in Fathom July 2024.
2023 ‘50 Years
of Dirty Hands: An Overview’. The Journal of Ethics. (Co-Author:
Christina Nick). 27/4: 415-439
2023 ‘An
Interview with Michael Walzer’. The Journal of Ethics. 27/4: 446-460.
2022. ‘In Bello
Proportionality: Philosophical Reflections on a Disturbing Empirical Study’. The Journal of Military Ethics (Co-authors Daniel Statman,
Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan). 21/2: 116-131.
2020. ‘“Unreliable
Protection: An Experimental Study of Experts’ In Bello
Proportionality Decisions”. European Journal of International Law. (Co-Authors: Daniel Statman, Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Micha Mandel, Michael Skerker).
31/2: 429–453.
2018. ‘Small-scale
evil.’ Journal of Value Inquiry. 52/1: 25–35.
2018. ‘Citizen guilt: moral complicity and the
problem of democratic dirty hands.’ The
Monist. 101/ 2: 129–149.
2018. ‘Punishing “Dirty Hands” – Insights from Zaibert’s Rethinking
Punishment’ in Perspectives on Ethics
in C4EJOURNAL .
2015. ‘Interrogating
the ‘Ticking Bomb Scenario’: Reassessing the thought experiment.’ The
International Journal of Applied Ethics. 29/1:53-70. (Co-author
Simon Beck).
2014. ‘Political Accountability and Moral
Pollution: Defending Democratic Dirty Hands.’Biblioteca della libertà, Anno XLIX, n. 209.
2014. ‘Searching for the mark of Cain – Barry’s
exploration of Evil Persons.’ Journal of
Value Inquiry. 50/2: 463-471.
2013.
‘Punishing dirty hands -
three justifications.’ Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 16/4: 879-897.
2012. ‘The
challenge of a moral politics: Mendus and Coady on
politics, integrity and “dirty hands”.’
Res Publica, 18/2:189-200.
2009. ‘Targeted killing: a "dirty hands" analysis.’ Contemporary Politics. 15/3: 305–320.
2009. ‘Bellamy on Dirty Hands and Lesser Evils: A Response.’ British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 11/3: 529-540. (co-author Tom Goodwin)
2007. ‘Shamanistic Incantations? Rawls, Reasonableness and Secular Fundamentalism.’ Politics and Ethics Review. 3/1: 109-128.
2006. ‘Torture and Liberalism’. Democratiya 7 Winter. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1390418869d7wijze.pdf
2004. ‘Tragic-Remorse - The Anguish of Dirty Hands.’ Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 7: 453-471.
2004. ‘Exploring our moral emotions: the difficult case of “dirty hands”.’ Philosophical Papers. (Special Issue: Festschrift for Ian Macdonald): 15-24.
2003. ‘Democracy, trust and the problem of dirty hands.’ Philosophy in the Contemporary World. 10/1: 37-42.
2003. ‘Complexity, relevance and character: Problems with teaching the ad hominem fallacy.’ Educational Philosophy and Theory. 35/1: 31-56.
2002. ‘Defining Evil - Insights from the problem of “dirty hands”.’ The Monist. 85/2: 210-238.
2002. ‘The Political Limits of Reasonableness.’ Imprints. 6/2: 171-186.
2000. ‘Machiavellian Thoughts on Mbeki: Between Political Cynicism & Moral Naivety.’ Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics. 2/1: 61-70.
2000. ‘The family and political justice - the case for political liberalisms.’ The Journal of Ethics. 4/3: 257-281.
1999. ‘South Africa and the Prospect of Political Liberalism.’ Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 2/3: 48-80.
1999. ‘Rawls and Civic Education.’ Cogito. 13/2: 87-93.
1998. PhD thesis: Political Liberalism: a consolidation, reconstruction, and defence. (University of Sheffield.)
1996. ‘Teaching critical reasoning in South Africa.’ Informal Logic. 18/1: 57-82.
1996. ‘The real problem of dirty hands - reply to Kai Nielsen.’ South African Journal of Philosophy. 15/4: 149-151.
1994. ‘Towards a Political Ethic: Exploring the boundaries of a moral politics.’ Philosophical Paper. XXIII/3: 191-215.
1994. ‘Dirty hands - doing wrong to do right’
in South African Journal of Philosophy,
13 (1) (1994): 27-33.
Book chapters
2018.
‘Introduction.’ The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Evil (co-edited with
Thomas Nys) New York: Routledge.
2018. ‘Defining
the concept of evil: Insights from our pre-cognitive responses.’ The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Evil (co-edited with
Thomas Nys) New York: Routledge.
2018. ‘Political Evil: Warping the Moral
Landscape’ in Moral Evil in Practical
Ethics. Roger Crisp and Sholmit Harrosh (eds.) New York: Routledge: 165-198.
2012. ‘The
Means/Ends Problem in Politics.’ Philosophy and Politics: Methods, Tools and
Topics. Antonella Besussi (ed.) Surrey: Ashgate
Publishing Limited: 135-148.
2012. ‘Resistance Beyond the Moral Boundary: Some Thoughts on the
Limits of Dirty Hands.’ Thinking Towards Humanity. Stephen de Wijze and Eve Garrard (eds.)
Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press: 150-174.
2012. ‘Introduction.’ Thinking Towards Humanity. Stephen de
Wijze and Eve Garrard (eds.) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press: 1-14.
2009. ‘Recalibrating Steiner on Evil’ in Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice (eds.
Stephen de Wijze, Matthew Kramer and Ian Carter) New York: Routledge: 214-232.
2007. ‘Between
Hero and Villain: Jack Bauer and the Problem of “Dirty Hands”.’ 24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack. Jennifer Hart Weed, Richard Brian Davis and Ronald Weed
(eds.) Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: 17-30.
2006. ‘Dirty Hands: Doing Wrong to Do Right.’ Politics and Morality. Igor Primoratz (ed.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 3-19. (Translated and printed in Croat: ‘Prljave ruke: postupamo neispravno kako bismo postupili ispravno’ in Politika I Moral (priredio Igor Primorac) KruZak (Zagreb, Veljaca, 2011)): 93-112.
2004. ‘Equality.’ Political Concepts: A Reader and a Guide. Iain Mackenzie (ed.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 77-108.
2002. ‘Towards a political ethic: exploring the boundaries of a moral politics.’ Applied Ethics - Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Volume VI, Politics. Ruth Chadwick and Doris Schroeder (eds.) New York: Routledge: 34-55.
1999. ‘Reasonableness, pluralism and democracy: a pragmatic approach.’ Liberalism and Social Justice: International Perspectives. G. Calder, E. Garrett, and J. Shannon (eds.) New York: Ashgate Publishers: 69-85.
Review Articles in
Academic Journals
2021 Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2021.1899255
2007. ‘Patching Holes in a Sinking Ship: ‘Democratic Deliberation
Within’, a review of Robert E. Goodin,
Reflective Democracy.’ European Journal of Philosophy. 15: 129-136.
2001. ‘Moral contractualism comes of age’ - a review essay of T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other. Res Publica.
7: 187-194. (co-authored with Jonathan
Hughes)
Publications in
conference proceedings
2014. ‘Civility Within Conflict – Managing Religious
Pluralism.’ Religious Pluralism: A
Resource Book. Aurelia Bardon, Maria Birnbaum, Lois Lee and Kristina
Stoeckl (eds.) European University
Institute. (Co-authored with Garvan Walshe) Website: http://cadmus.eui.eu//handle/1814/37704
1998. ‘Reasonableness, pluralism
and justice: a pragmatic approach.’ The
Liberal Order: The Future for Social Justice? Olomouc, Czech Republic:
84-93.
1996. ‘Political Liberalism and the New South Africa.’ Current Issues in Political Philosophy - Justice and Welfare in Society and World Order., Papers of the 19th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Peter Koller and Klaus Puhl (eds.): 421-426.
Other Publications: Research
2014. “Evil.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. Duncan Pritchard (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. (Co-author Eve Garrard) http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/abstract/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577-0316.xml?rskey=sRFxA4&result=1&q=evil#firstMatch
2004. ‘Essentials of Moral Conflict.’ The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics.Martin Cohen ed. Hodder Arnold (Encyclopaedia entry)
Book
Reviews
2001. Richard Bellamy, Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise for Ethics 112/2.
2001. Kymlicka, Will. Contemporary Political Philosophy, Knowles, Dudley. Political Philosophy and Cohen, Martin. Political Philosophy from Plato to Mao for Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).
1998. Roberto Alejandro, The Limits of Rawlsian Justice (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) in Political Studies. 48/1.
1996. 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, 47/5.
1996. 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.
Other Public Output
2020. ‘The attraction of apocalypse: The philosophical roots of our fascination with catastrophe’ in IAI news:Changing How the World Thinks. Issue 87. An online magazine of big ideas. https://iai.tv/articles/the-attraction-of-apocalypse-auid-1394
2020. ‘The Three Best Books on Understanding Evil’ in Fathom May 2020. https://fathomjournal.org/the-three-best-books-on-understanding-evil/?highlight=de%20Wijze
2019. ‘Can Politicians be Moral?’ in IAI news:Changing How the World Thinks. Issue 73. An online magazine of big ideas. https://iai.tv/articles/how-should-we-judge-politicians-auid-1236 (Linked to the Hay Festival ‘How The Light Gets In’)
2019. ‘The Dark Side - Our Fascination with Evil’ in IAI news: Changing How the World Thinks. Issue 82. Halloween Special. An online magazine of big ideas (Linked to Hay Festival ‘How the Light Gets In’) https://iai.tv/articles/issue-archive
2018. ‘Why Norman Geras's essay “Our Morals” should be essential reading for politics students – not a subversive threat’ in The Conversation http://theconversation.com/why-norman-gerass-essay-our-morals-should-be-essential-reading-for-politics-students-not-a-subversive-threat-106871
2012. ‘Doing wrong in order to do
right in Northern Ireland’ in Manchester Policy Blog.
http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2014/05/doing-wrong-in-order-to-do-right-in-northern-ireland/
1999. ‘Learning to be political liberals - reply to Parry.’ Mancept Working Paper Series, Department of
Government, University of Manchester, Paper No: 7/98.
1999. ‘Dismissing Hoddle - a
dangerous breach of a basic right.’ After Government, Department of
Government Alumni Magazine, University of Manchester.
1993. ‘Outlining the “dirty
hands” problem.’ Comment, Rhodes
University Working Paper Series, Volume 8.
1993. ‘Critical Reasoning for
School Pupils’ - course designed, taught and evaluated (by report) for
Kingswood College in Grahamstown, South Africa.
1992. ‘Critical Reasoning and
the Abortion Issue’ in Rhodesfest, Grahamstown Festival of Arts.
1991. ‘Critical Reasoning for
the Social Sciences’ course developed, taught and evaluated (by report) for
Academic Support Programme tutors at Rhodes University, South Africa.
1990. ‘Critical Thinking
Courses: What does it take to take them seriously?’ Comment, Rhodes University Working Paper Series, Volume 5.
Editorships
2023. Editor
of Special Edition of The Journal of Ethics: ‘Revisiting the Problem of
Dirty Hands: From Walzer to the Present’ 27/4: 415-623. (Co-Editor: Christina
Nick).
2023. Appointed
to editorial Board of Studies in Penal Theory and Ethics (Bloomsbury)
2007-2015. Editor of Representation:
Journal of Representative Democracy (co-Editor Andrew Russell) http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=rrep20#.VVTLvflViko
Services as an external examiner
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External examiner for
POLSIS – UG and PG – University of Birmingham (2014 - 2016)
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External examiner UG
programmes in Politics University of York (2007-2010)
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External examiner PhD
theses at Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, York, Western Cape (SA) and
Exeter.
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External assessor of
habilitation thesis for Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), 2019.
Supervision of PhD students
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Riki Yamochi |
Introducing Realism into Just War Theory |
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Karolina Jedrzejczak |
The Crisis of Democracy |
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Anh Le |
Towards a theory of Jus Ad Vim |
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Jamie Henson |
Remorse, Punishment and its place in the Legal System. |
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Wen-Chin Lung |
The Moral Dilemma of Humanitarian Intervention in Times of War |
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James Shaw |
Madison, Constant and the Theory and Establishment of
Liberal-Republican Constitutional Neutrality |
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Garvan Walshe |
Green Libertarianism: Freedom and Ecology |
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Stephen Hood |
Rawlsian Justice and Labour Markets in Non-Ideal Circumstances |
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Chris Mills |
Liberalism and Perfection: Well-Being, Autonomy and Respect. |
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Stephen Cooke |
The Ethics of Animal Liberation |
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Rebecca Reilly-Cooper |
Emotions and Public Reason |
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Tom Goodwin |
The Problem of Dirty Hands: Examining and Defending a Special Case
of Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing |
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Charlie Robinson |
Deliberative Democracy and Social Choice |
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Mihaela Georgieva |
Political Constructivism and the Liberal Project of Public
Justification |
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Andrew Shorten |
Treating Cultural Commitments Fairly: A Cosmopolitan Account of
Multicultural Justice |
Academic Enterprise and Knowledge Transfer
External Professional
Advisory Work
2021. Interview with Faculti concerning ‘Unreliable Protection: An Experimental Study of Expert’s In Bello Proportionality Decisions’. https://faculti.net/unreliable-protection-an-experimental-study-of-experts-in-bello-proportionality-decisions/
2020. Interview with Mantalks - podcast 84 minutes entitled ‘Our Attraction to Catastrophe and Apocalypse’. https://mantalks.com/stephen-de-wijze-our-attraction-to-catastrophe-and-apocalypse/
2019. Interview for IAI – podcast entitled ‘Evil acts, good people: The problem of dirty hands’. https://iai.tv/video/evil-acts-good-people-the-problem-of-dirty-hands-stephen-de-wijze
2019. Royal Shakespeare
Society: Panel member for discussion of play “Measure for Measure’ under title
of Measure for Measure: To whom should I complain? August.
2017. Consultation for Open
University MA module A854 section on ‘dirty hands’. Made introductory voice tape recording for
students on the problem of ‘dirty hands’. http://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/modules/a854
2014. Consultation for charity
called UpRising
– on ‘My Voice My Vote’ programme https://uprising.org.uk/programmes/previous-programmes/my-voice-my-vote
2014.
Speaker at meeting for Challenging
Orthodoxies Society, University of Manchester: ‘Can political violence be
justified’? https://www.facebook.com/events/1537695326457282/?active_tab=discussion
2014. ‘Doing
wrong in order to do right in Northern Ireland’ in Manchester Policy Blogs
2013. Panel
member of school ‘Question Time’ at Manchester Grammar School, with members of
parliament from Labour (Ivan Lewis), Liberal Democrats (John Leech) and UKIP
(Steven Woolfe), to discuss the forthcoming election issues and possible
results.
Media Work
2025. BBC Beyond Belief – topic: Pharisees: a byword for hypocrisy? 19 January
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026v5m
2022. Medya News Podcast – Topic: ‘Right to Resistance’ March 22. https://medyanews.net/podcast/
2022. BBC Moral Maze – topic: ‘The Rules – Expectations and Apologies’ January. (18 minutes in) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013jf7
2019. BBC Moral Maze – topic: ‘Tolerating the intolerant’ October. (26 minutes in) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0009jl2
2019. BBC Moral Maze – topic: ‘Moral Character’ June https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/ 090-play/m000677g (17:45 minutes in)
2019. Commentator on BBC Radio 4 Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme: Conflict over teaching LGBT rights lessons in Birmingham School - See https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0005dxw (24 minutes in) 26/05/2019.
2018. BBC Moral Maze – topic: ‘The Morality of Ends/Means’ October. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000sxp
2013. ‘Nelson Mandela dies: South African lecturer at Manchester University remembers the first democratic elections’
From 2013 onward, I have appeared on following news media discussing a range of current events – Democratic elections across the globe, Death of Nelson Mandela, the problem of Dirty Hands in international relations, The Means/Ends problem in politics, the clash of fundamental values in a liberal society. I have appeared on the following media outlets:
· BBC Radio 4
· BBC TV Breakfast News
· BBC Manchester Radio
· Manchester Evening News (MEN)
· Manchester Key 103 Radio
· RealNews
· Daily Express
· Fuse FM – University of Manchester Student Radio Station
Referee for the following University
Presses and Learned Journals
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American Philosophical
Society
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Ashgate Publishing
Ltd. (Book Manuscripts)
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British Society for
Ethical Theory (BSET)
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Cambridge University Press
(Book manuscripts)
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Critical Review of
International and Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP)
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Ethical Theory and Moral
Practice
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Ethical Perspectives
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Ethics & Social
Welfare
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European Journal of
Political Theory
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Fathom
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Government and Opposition
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Journal of the American
Philosophical Association
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The Monist
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The Journal of Political
Philosophy
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The Journal of Ethics
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Journal of Value Inquiry
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Manchester University
Press (Book manuscripts)
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Metaphilosophy
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Oxford University Press
(Book manuscripts)
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Palgrave (Macmillan
Academic Publishing) (Book manuscripts)
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Philosophical Papers
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Political Philosophy
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Political Studies
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Polity Press (Book
manuscripts)
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Philosophical Quarterly
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Philosophia
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Res Publica
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Routledge (Book
Manuscripts)
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Sage Publications Ltd.
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Social Theory and Practice
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South African Journal of
Philosophy
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Theoria
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The Review of Politics