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Last modified 26 Feb 08
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. Philosophy Program
RSSS, ANU
Nicholas Southwood


Address Philosophy Program, RSSS
Coombs Building No. 9
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia
Office Room 1201
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Dr Nicholas Southwood is a research fellow in the Philosophy Program in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) at the Australian National University (ANU). He works mainly in ethics and political philosophy. He is currently co-writing a book on norms and normative explanation with Robert Goodin, Geoff Brennan and Lina Eriksson as part of the ARC project, Norms, Reasons and Values.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

(i) Books

  • Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

(ii) Papers

  • "A Deliberative Model of Contractualism", forthcoming in Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
  • "Promises Beyond Assurance" (with D. Friedrich), forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
  • "Epistemic Norms Without Voluntary Control" (with P. Chuard), forthcoming in Nous.
  • "Feasibility in Action and Attitude" (with G. Brennan), Hommage à Wlodek: Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz, ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J Jonefsson and D Egonsson, 2007.
  • "Preserving Liberty", Policy, 20 (1), 2004, pp. 28-35.
  • "Political Versus Moral Justification", The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 41 (2), 2003, pp. 261-82.
  • "Beyond Pettit's Neo-Roman Republicanism: Towards the Deliberative Republic", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 5 (1), 2002, pp. 16-42.

(iii) Reviews

  • "Review of T.M. Scanlon's The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy", Economics and Philosophy, 21, 2005, pp. 326-33.
  • "Review of Michael Ignatieff's The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror", Policy, 20 (4), 2004, pp. 57-8.