Permanent Address:

21 Cunliffe Close, Oxford, OX2 7BJ
Telephone: 07908-620784

 

Education:
 

Secondary: Christ's Hospital, Horsham, 1951-59

Higher: Balliol College, Oxford, 1959-62.
 

Fawkes Scholar
Distinction in Preliminary Examination, 1960
First Class in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 1962
College prizes in philosophy and politics
Powell English Essay prize
Graduate: University College, London, 1962-3

BA (Oxon.) 1962
MA (Oxon.) 1967
D.Litt. (Oxon.) 1993

Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer, University of Keele, 1963-6
Lecturer, University of Essex, 1966-
Fellow and Tutor in Politics, New College, Oxford, 1969-9
University Lecturer in Politics, 1969-78
Reader ad hominem, 1978-9
Professor of Politics, Princeton University, 1988-96
Warden (Head) of New College, Oxford, 1996-2009
Senior Research Fellow, 2009-2010
Professor of Politics, Princeton University, 2010-14
Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 2014-15
 

Academic Distinctions:
 

Elected Fellow of the British Academy, 1986

Official Member, Council for National Academic Awards, 1975 -83
Delegate, Oxford University Press, 1982-7
Finance Committee, 1986-7
Senior Consulting Editor, Bertrand Russell Project, 1987-
Executive Committee, Conference for the Study of Political Thought, 1988-
Associate Editor, Ethics, 1991-
Chair, Conference for the Study of Political Thought, 1992-1996
Convocation Lecturer, Lawrence University, 1993
Whidden Lecturer, McMaster University, 1993

Visiting Professor, Hunter College, CUNY, 1967-
Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin, 1972
Visiting Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, 1973
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, 1974-5
Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1977
Visiting Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, 1978
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, 1979
Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, 1982, 1983, 1984
de Carle Lecturer, University of Otago, 1983
Mellon Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, 1991-2
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, 2002-3

I have given invited lectures to many conferences, particularly:
 

the American Political Science Association
the Conference for the Study of Political Thought
the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium

Bristol, Edinburgh, East Anglia, Glasgow, St. Andrews, Stirling, Nottingham, Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, Boston, Maryland, Haverford College, Columbia, Lehigh, Texas, Washington University, St. Louis, Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, La Trobe, Australian National University, Adelaide, Western Australia, the Witwatersrand, Auckland, Calcutta, Lucknow, Jadharwal Nehru University, New Delhi, the Institute for Advanced Studies, Caracas, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Broadcasts on topics in political philosophy and current affairs for the British Broadcasting Corporation for both its Open University services, and its ordinary services, including contributions on:
 

American Political Science (1968),
John Stuart Mill's Centenary (1973),
Russell's Politics (1978),
on recent trends in Marxism (1986),
a series for the Chinese service of the World Service on political philosophy since 1600.

Two particularly successful broadcasts were my contribution to The Return of Grand Theory, which began as a broadcast talk in 1983, and my contribution to Political Thought From Plato to NATO.

Mind, The Philosophical Quarterly, Political Studies, Political Theory, The Historical Journal, The English Historical Review, The American Historical Review, The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Albion, New Society, The New Statesman, The Times Higher EducationSupplement, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, TheObserver,The Washington Post, New York Times, and Newsday. I have written upwards of a dozen "op-ed" contributions for the London Times. Since 1996, I have been a frequent contributor to The Independent and the Times Higher Education Supplement, these contributions are not listed here.

Publications

The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, Pantheon Books/Macmillan, 1970. (Revised 2nd ed., 1987)
The Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Macmillan/Pantheon Books, 1970. (15th impression, 1990)
J.S. Mill, Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1975
Property and Political Theory, Blackwell, 1984
Property, Open University Press/University of Minnesota Press, 1987
Russell: A Political Life, Allen Lane/Hill & Wang, 1988, OUP, 1993
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, Norton, 1995
Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education, Hill & Wang, 1998, revised UK edition, Profile Books, 1999  
On Politics, Norton/Allen Lane, 2012
The Making of Modern Liberalism, Princeton University Press, 2012

(ed and intro.), Social Explanation, Oxford, 1973
(intro.), An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (pp. vii-lxvii of Vol. IX of The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, University of Toronto Press, 1978)
(ed. and intro.), The Idea of Freedom, Oxford University Press, 1979
(ed. and intro.), Utilitarianism and Other Essays by Mill and Bentham, Penguin Classics, 1987
(joint editor), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Blackwell, 1987
(joint editor), Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes, Oxford University Press, 1989
(ed and intro.), Justice, Oxford University Press, 1993
(intro.), J-J Rousseau, Social Contract and Discourses, Everyman Library, 1994
(intro.), Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Everyman Library, 1994
(intro.), Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx, 4th edn, Harper, 1995
(ed and intro.), Mill: A Critical Edition, Norton, 1997
(ed and intro.), Liberty and The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill, Penguin, 2006

Liberty and Equality Revisited, The J.C. Rees Memorial Lecture, University College, Swansea, 1983
"Introduction" to The End of History, essays from History Today, Collins, Brown, London, 1992
Bertrand Russell: Whig or Radical ?, University of Texas, Humanities Research Centre, 1994
Liberal Education Hits the Buffers, McMaster University, 1994

1) "Locke and the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie" in Locke andBerkeley, ed. Armstrong and Martin, Doubleday, 1968
2) "J.S. Mill" and "G.H. Mead" in Founding Fathers of the SocialSciences, ed. Barker, Penguin/Scolar Press, 1969, 1978
3) "Normal Science or Ideology ?' in Philosophy, Politics and Society, series IV, eds. Laslett, Runciman and Skinner, Blackwell, 1972
4) "Utilitarianism and Bureaucracy" in Studies in the Growth of Nineteenth Century Government, ed. Sutherland, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973
5) "Two Concepts of Politics and Democracy" in Machiavelli and the Nature of Political Thought, ed. Fleisher, Atherton, 1973
6) "The Nature of Human Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau" in The Limits of Human Nature, ed. Benthall, Allen Lane, 1974
7) "Values in Social Science" in The Social Sciences Today, ed. Barker, Arnold, 1976
8) "Comment on Mr. Benn" in Political Participation, ed. Benn, Australian National University, 1978
9) "Maximising, Moralising and Dramatising" in Action and Interpretation», eds. Hookway and Pettit, Cambridge University Press, 1978
10) "Is the Study of Society a Science ?" in Society and the Social Sciences, ed. Potter, Heinemann, 1982
11) "The Romantic Theory of Ownership" in Property and Social Relations, ed. Hollowell, Heinemann, 1982
12) "Hobbes, Toleration and the Inner Life" in The Nature of Political Theory, eds. Miller and Siedentop, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1983
13) "Property, Liberty and On Liberty," in Of Liberty, ed. Phillips Griffiths, Cambridge University Press, 1983
14) "Mill and Rousseau: Utility and Rights" in Democratic Theory and Practice, ed. Duncan, Cambridge University Press, 1983
15) and 16) "Private Selves and Public Parts" and "Public and Private Property" in The Public and the Private, eds. Benn and Gaus, Croom Helm, 1983
17) "Popper and Liberalism" in Popper and the Human Sciences, eds. Currie and Musgrave, Mouton, 1984
18) "Work, Ownership and Self-Realization" in The State and Civil Society, ed. Pelczynski, Cambridge University Press, 1984
19) "Utility and Ownership" in Utility and Rights, ed. Frey, Blackwell/University of Minnesota Press, 1985
20) "John Rawls and Justice" in The Return of Grand Theory, ed. Skinner, Cambridge University Press, 1984
21) "Freedom and Socialism" in Fabian Essays on Socialism, ed. Pimlott, Heinemann, 1984
22) "Mill's Essay on Liberty" in Philosophers Ancient and Modern, ed. Vesey, Cambridge University Press, 1987
23) "Utilitarianism from Philosophical Radicalism to Social Democracy" in Essays in Radicalism, ed. Kilmarnock, Deutsch, 1987
24) "A More Tolerant Hobbes" in Essays on Toleration, ed. Mendus, Cambridge University Press, 1988
25) "Marx on Justice, Exploitation and the End of Morality" in Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Problems, ed Evans, Cambridge University Press, 1988
26) "Property" in Political Innovation and Conceptual Change, eds. Ball and Chanson, Cambridge University Press, 1989
27) "Russell en guerre avec la guerre" in, Les Philosophes et la Guerre de 1914, ed. Soulez, Presses Universitaires de France, 1989
28) "Hobbes and Individualism" in Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes, ed Rogers and Ryan, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989
29) Contributions on "Freedom", "John Stuart Mill", "Property" to The New Palgrave Dictionary of Political Economy, eds. Eatwell et al, Macmillan, 1987
30) Contributions on "Citizenship", "Liberty", "J.S. Mill", "National Socialism", "Karl Popper", "Bertrand Russell" to The Blackwell Encyclopediaof Political Thought, eds. Miller, Coleman, Connolly and Ryan, Blackwell, 1987
31) "Mill and Weber on History, Freedom and Reason" in Max Weber and His Contemporaries, ed Mommsen and Osterhammel, Allen and Unwin, 1988
32) "Locke on Freedom: Second Thoughts" in Traditions of Liberalism, ed Haakonssen, Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney, 1989
33) "Value Judgments and Welfare" in The Economic Borders of the State, ed Helm, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989
34) "Is Property Interesting ?", in Archives of the International Society for Legal Philosophy, Edinburgh, 1989
35) "La politique de Russell", in De la logique à la politique, Hermès,1990
36) "Individuo, obbligazione, è resistenza", Teoria Politica, 1990
37) "Paternalism and Welfare: Cash and benefits in Kind", in The Future of the Welfare State, eds. Wilson and Wilson, Heinemann, 1991
38) "Justice, Exploitation and the Rational Man", in Thoughtful Economic Man, ed Meeks, Cambridge University Press, 1991
39) "State and Individual, Red and White", in Violence, Terrorism, and Justice, eds. Frey and Morris, Cambridge University Press, 1991
40) "The British, the Americans, and Rights" in The Bill of Rights, ed Lacey, Cambridge University Press, 1991
41) "Sense and Sensibility in Mill's Political Thought " in A Cultivated Mind: Essays Presented to J.M. Robson, ed Laine, Toronto University Press, 1991
42) "Bertrand Russell" in The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth Century Political Thinkers, ed. Green, 1992
43) "Liberalism" in The Blackwell Companion to Political Philosophy, eds. Goodin and Pettit, Blackwell, Oxford, 1993
44) "The Liberal Community" in Democratic Community, Nomos XXXV, New York, 1994
45) "Hobbes's Political Philosophy" in Cambridge Companion to Hobbes, ed. Sorrel, Cambridge University Press, 1996
46) "Political Progress" in Progress, eds. Marx and Mazlish, Minnesota University Press, 1996
47) "Capitalism, Corruption, and Democracy" in Virtue, Corruption and Self-Interest, ed Matthews, Lehigh University Press, 1994
48) "Mill in a Liberal Landscape," in Cambridge Companion to Mill, ed. Skorupski, Cambridge University Press, 1997
49) "Political Philosophy," in Philosophy: A Guide Through the Subject, ed. Grayling, Oxford University Press, 1998
50) "Pragmatism and Property," in Property Problems, ed. Harris, Sweet & Maxwell, 1998
51) "Deweyan Pragmatism and American Education," in Philosophers on Education, ed. Rorty, 1998
52) "The City and Justice," in Cities in Our Future, ed Geddes, 1998
53) "The City as a Site of Free Association," in Freedom of Association, ed Gutmann, 1999
54) "What Did Dewey Want?," in Philosophy and Social Problems, ed Haldane, 2000
55) "The Critique of Individualism," in The British Study of Politics in the Twentieth Century, ed Hayward et al, 1999
56) "A Political Assessment of Progress," in Progress: Fact or Illusion, ed Marx and Mazlish, 1998
57) "Does Inequality Matter: For Its Own Sake," in Social Philosophy and Policy, 2002
58)  "Staunchly Modern, Non-Bourgeois Liberalism," in The New Liberalism, edd,  Friedman & Simchoni, 2002 
59)  "Liberal Imperialism," in The Future of Liberal Democracy, edd Robert Fatton and R.K. Ramazani,  2004 
60)   "Popper and Democracy," in Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals, edd Philip Catton and Graham Macdonald, 2004 
61)   "Rational Explanation," in Problems and Methods in Political Science, ed Ian Shapiro, 2004
62) "Older than What; Newer than What?" in Liberalism Old and New, Social Philosophy and Policy,2006
63) "Some Unsettled Questions in Mill's Political Theory" in John Stuart Mill's Political Thought, edd. Urbinati and Zakarias
64) "Participation Revisited," in The Illusion of Consent, edd O'Neill, Shanley and Young, 2008

1) "Universalisability", Analysis, 1964
2) "Mr. McCloskey on Mill's Liberalism", Philosophical Quarterly, 1964
3) "Freedom", Philosophy, 1965
4) "Mill and the Naturalistic Fallacy", Mind, 1966
5) "Austin, Comment faire les choses avec les mots," Archives de Philosophie , 1966
6) "Professor Tucker's Marx", Political Studies, 1967
7) "The Open Society and Utility", Government and Opposition, 1971
8) "Deductive Explanation in the Social Sciences", Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Proceedings, 1973
9) "Party Ideologies Since 1945", Contemporary Record, January 1988
10)"The Last Radical ? Bertrand Russell's Politics," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1996
11)"Professional Liars," Social Research, 1996
12)"Pragmatism, Social Identity, Patriotism and Self-Criticism," Social Research, 1996
13)"In a Conversational Idiom," Social Research, 1998
14) "Intellectual Courage,"  Social Research, 2002
15) "Fairness", Social Research,2006

1) "Mill and the Art of Living", Listener, 1964
2) "The Failure of American Political Science", Listener, 1968
3) "Elections Aren't Enough", Listener, 1970
4) "Mill and Liberty", Listener, 1973. (To accompany two radio programmes on the centenary of Mill's death.)
5) "Crime, Sin and Vice", Listener, 1976
6) "Russell and Liberalism", Listener, 1978
7) "Marx and the Philosophers", Listener, 1986
8) "A Glamorous Salon: Isaiah Berlin and the History of Ideas", Encounter, 1974
9) "The Right to be Left Alone", Times Literary Supplement, 1972
10) "An Ideology for the Welfare State", Times Higher Education Supplement, 1982
11) "Communitarianism: The Good, The Bad, and The Muddly", Dissent, 1989
12) "Socialism for the Nineties", Dissent, 1990
13) "Equality Reconsidered", Dissent, 1992
14) "Twentieth Century Limited," New York Review of Books, 1992
15) "Karl Popper's Legacy," Times Literary Supplement, 1994

1) "Reconstructing John Locke", New York Review of Books, 1969
2) "Make Your Own Rousseau", New York Review of Books, 1972
3) "The Family Mill", New York Review of Books, 1975
4) "The Spectre that Haunts the World", Times Literary Supplement, 1975
5) "Bagehot's Britain", Times Literary Supplement, 1974
6) "Trotsky and the Theory of Revolution", Times Literary Supplement, 1978
7) "Rex Martin, Historical Explanation", History and Theory, 1980
8) "John Dunn, Political Obligation", History and Theory, 1982
9) "The Tory Interpretation of History", London Review of Books, 1986
10) "Enemies Within", London Review of Books, 1986
11) "The Thing", London Review of Books, 1986
12) "Marxism Today ?", London Review of Books, 1987
13) "Institutions", London Review of Books, 1987
14) "English Individualism Revisited", London Review of Books, 1988
15) "Letting Them Live", London Review of Books, 1988
16) "Socrates on Trial", London Review of Books, 1988
17) "Nuclear Fears", Times Literary Supplement, 1988
18) "Tocqueville in Saginaw", London Review of Books, 1989
19) "Distrusting Economics", New York Review of Books, 1989
20) "A Family Romance", New York Review of Books, 1989
21) "Effervescence", London Review of Books, 1989
22) "Theories of Freedom", Times Literary Supplement, 1989
23) "Refusing the Comforts of Superstition", Times Literary Supplement, 1990
24) "Voice of Experience", New York Review of Books, 1990
25) "Is there a Society of Nations ?", Times Literary Supplement, 1991
26) "When it's Rational to be Irrational", New York Review of Books, 1991
27) "Do-Gooders", New York Review of Books, 1991
28) "Deweyan Socialism ?, " Dissent, 1992
29) "Fukuyama's Fantasy," New York Review of Books, 1992
30) Theodore Marmor et al, America's Misunderstood Welfare State,Milbank Quarterly, 1992
31) "Bertie and Alys and Ottoline," London Review of Books, 1992
32) "Equality and Partiality," Times Literary Supplement, 1992
33) "New World Disorder ?", Times Literary Supplement, 1992
34) "The New Inequality", New York Review of Books, 1992
35) "Burke's Revolutions", New York Review of Books, 1992
36) "The Campus Culture Wars", New York Review of Books, 1993
37) "The Passion of Michel Foucault", New York Review of Books,1993
38) "Preparing for the Twenty-First Century", New York Review of Books 1993
39) "Systems of Survival", New York Review of Books, 1993
40) "Whingeing Yanks: Robert Hughes' Culture of Complaint", Times Literary Supplement, 1993
41) "The Moral Sense", New York Review of Books, 1993
42) The Downing Street Years", New York Review of Books, 1993
43) "Apocalypse Now," New York Review of Books, 1994
44) "All Together Now," London Review of Books, 1994
45) "Unpromising Pragmatism", New York Review of Books, 1995
46) "The Women in the Cowshed," New York Review of Books, 1995
47) "The Middling Sort," London Review of Books, 1995
48) "MacIntyre and Morality," Times Literary Supplement, 1995
49) "Arendt and Heidegger," New York Review of Books, 1995
50) "Raymond Monk's Russell," Times Literary Supplement, 1996
51) "Whatever Happened to the Left?," New York Review of Books, 1996
52) "Isaiah Berlin and the History of Ideas," Times Literary Supplement, 1996
53) "Christie's Big Chance,"  New York Review of Books, 1997
54) "A More Normal Rousseau ?"  London Review of Books, 1997
55) "A Modern Rousseau," New York Review of Books, 1997
56) "Women and the Common Life", New York Review of Books, 1997
57) "Liberalism and Its Discontents," New York Review of Books, 1998
58) "Wise Man," New York Review of Books, 1998
59) "Property and Freedom," New York Review of Books, 1998
60) "The Big Test," New York Review of Books, 1999
61) "The Peculiarity of the English," Times Literary Supplement, 2000
62) "Bowling Alone," New York Review of Books, 2000
63)  "Left Back," New York Review of Books, 2001
64)  "Live and Let Live,"  New York Review of Books, 2001
65)  "The Metaphysical Club," New York Review of Books, 2001
66)  "A New Vision of Libery,", New York Review of Books, 2001
67)  "Keynes's Last Stand," New York Review of Books, 2002
68)  "Wolin's Tocqueville," New York Review of Books, 2002
69)  "The Power of Positive Thinking," New York Review of Books, 2003
70)  "Call Me Mister," New York Review of Books, 2003
71)  "Rational Man,"  New York Review of Books, 2003 
72)  "Deliberation Day,"  New York Review of Books, 2004 
73)  "Faith-Based History,"  New York Review of Books, 2004
73) "Freedom Fighter: Capaldi on Mill", New York Review of Books, 2005
74)  "Anthony Appiah on the Ethics of Identity,"   New York Review of Books, 2005
75)   "What Happened to Tony Blair,"   New York Review of Books, 2005
76)   "Tony Judt's Europe,"   New York Review of Books, 2005
77) "Founding Mother: Jane Addams," New York Review of Books,, 2006
78) "Bourgeois Virtues," New York Review of Books, 2006
79) "Cosmpolitanism," New York Review of Books, 2006
80) "My Guide to Philosophy: Bernard Williams," Times Literary Supplement, 2007
81) "Hugh Brogan's Tocqueville," New York Review of Books, 2007
82) "Empire," New York Review of Books, 2008