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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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Fax 		(+ 61 2) 6125 3226
(+ 61 2) 6125 0599
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Dr Nicholas Southwood is an assistant professor 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, tentatively entitled Normative Explanation, as part of the ARC project, Norms, Reasons and Values.

SOME RECENT 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.
  • "Vindicating the Normativity of Rationality", forthcoming in Ethics.
  • "Promises Beyond Assurance" (with D. Friedrich), forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
  • "Epistemic Norms Without Voluntary Control" (with P. Chuard), forthcoming in Nous.

(iii) Reviews

  • "Review of T.M. Scanlon's The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy", Economics and Philosophy, 21, 2005, pp. 326-33.