CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1988
FELLOWSHIPS & APPOINTMENTS:
Visting Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spring, 2023
Lady Davis Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spring, 2022 and 2024
Visiting Scholar, Council for European Studies, Duke University, Spring 2017
Honorarprofessor, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Oldenburg, Germany, life-time appointment
Academic Visitor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, Spring-Fall, 2014
Plumer Research Fellowship, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, Spring, 2014
John Stuart Mill Visiting Chair in Social Philosophy, Universität Hamburg, Germany, Winter, 2013-14
Visiting Scholar, Simon Dubnow-Institut, Universität Leipzig, Germany, Winter 2011-2012, Fall, 2010 and Winter, 2008
Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Study of British Idealism and New Liberalism, University of Hull, UK, Spring, 2010
Visiting Lecturer, Center for History of 20th Century, Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany, Winter, 2009-10
Fulbright Senior Lecturer & Researcher, Simon Dubnow-Institut, Universität Leipzig, Germany, Spring-Summer, 2009
Faculty Fellow, Murphy Institute of Political Economy, Tulane University, Spring, 2007
Visiting Scholar, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University, Winter-Spring, 2005
Visiting Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford University, Winter-Spring, 2003
Fellow, Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics, University of Nebraska, May, 2002
Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spring, 1994 and 1999
Scheinbrun Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1987-89
GRANTS:
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2016
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1998
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS IN ENGLISH:
Jewish Exiles & European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich. With A. Zakai, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017, paperback re-issued 2019
John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life. Co-edited with B. Eggleston and D. Miller, Oxford Univ. Press, 2010, paperback re-issued 2012
Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism. Ideas in Context series, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007, paperback re-issued in 2011
The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty and Community. Co-edited with A. Simhony, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001, paperback issued same year
Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism. Ideas in Context series, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, paperback re-issued in 2006
BOOKS IN HEBREW:
Interpretation, Criticism and the Shaping of Modern Intellectual History. With A. Zakai, Resling Press, 2014
WORK-IN-PROGRESS:
Classical Utilitarianism and the Anxiety of Influence
ARTICLES & ESSAYS:
“Introduction” in D. Weinstein (ed.), special issue commemorating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics, Utilitas (forthcoming)
“Intellectual History and Defending the Capabilities Approach” in E. Chiappero-Martinetti, S. Osmani and M. Qizilbash (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Capabilities Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
“Making Better Sense of Ideal Utilitarianism” in G. Varouxakis and M. Philip (eds.), Happiness and Utility (UCL Press 2020), 289-312
“Shedding Light on Sen: Introduction,” International Journal of Social Economics, 43, 12 (2016), 1174-77, special issue I guest edited
“Why Sen’s Interpretation of the Liberal Tradition Matters and is also Problematic to Understanding His Social Economics,” International Journal of Social Economics, 43, 12 (2016), 1219-32, special issue I guest edited
“New Liberalism, Freedom and Democracy,” Il Pensiero Politico, 1-2 (October 2015)
“Erich Auerbach and ‘Figura:’ An Apology for the Old Testament in an Age of Aryan Philology,” with A. Zakai, Religions, 3 (2012), 320-38, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions. Republished in Between Religion and Ethnicity: Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture (MDPI)
“Liberalism and Analytical Political Philosophy” in B. Jackson and M. Stears (eds.), Liberalism in Theory and Practice: (Oxford University Press, 2012), 139-58
“Liberal Political Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” in George Klosko (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2011), 414-35
“Hermeneutics and Liberalism: A Reply,” Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, special issue devoted to my Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism (Summer, 2010), 88-106
“Introductory Essay” with B. Eggleston and D. Miller in B. Eggleston, D. Miller and D. Weinstein (eds.), John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (Oxford University Press, 2010), 3-18
“Interpreting Mill” in B. Eggleston, D. Miller and D. Weinstein (eds.), John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (Oxford University Press, 2010), 44-70
“The Exile of Interpretation,” with A. Zakai, in Hebrew, New Trends in the Study of German Jewry, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem (September 2009), 3-31
“Exile and Interpretation: Karl Popper and the Re-Invention of European Political Thought,” with A. Zakai, in Hebrew, Zmanim, Tel Aviv University, Israel (January 2008), 14-27
“Consequentialist Cosmopolitanism” in Duncan Bell (ed.), Victorian Visions of Global Order (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 267-90, paperback re-issued in 2010
“Exile and Interpretation: Popper’s Re-Invention of the History of European Political Thought,” with A. Zakai, The Journal of Political Ideologies (June 2006), 185-209.
“Imagining Darwinism” in Bart Schultz and Georgios Varouxakis (eds.), Utilitarianism and Empire (Lexington, 2005), 189-209
"English Political Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" in Gerald Gaus and Chandran Kukathas (eds.), Handbook of Political Theory (Sage Publications, 2004), 410-26
18. “Herbert Spencer,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, online hypertext (December 2002), substantive revisions February 2008 and March 2024
"Vindicating Utilitarianism," Utilitas, 14, 1 (March 2002), 71-95
"Introduction: The New Liberalism and the Liberal-Communitarian Debate" with A. Simhony in A. Simhony and D. Weinstein (eds.), The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty and Community (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 1-25
"The New Liberalism and the Rejection of Utilitarianism" in A. Simhony and D. Weinstein (eds.), The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty and Community (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 159-83
Deductive Hedonism and the Anxiety of Influence," Utilitas, 12, 3, special symposium on Henry Sidgwick, (November 2000), 329-46
"The New Liberalism of L.T. Hobhouse and the Re-Envisioning of 19th Century Utilitarianism," The Journal of the History of Ideas, 57, 3 (July 1996), 487-507
"Entre el kantismo y el consecuencialismo en la filosofia moral de T.H. Green." Telos, III, 2,(Diciembre 1994), 31-58
“Between Kantianism and Consequentialism in T.H. Green’s Moral Philosophy,” Political Studies, XLI, 4
"The Discourse of Freedom, Rights and Good in Nineteenth Century English Liberalism,” Utilitas, 3, 2 (November 1991), 245-62
"Equal Freedom, Rights and Utility in Spencer's Moral Philosophy," History of Political Thought, XI, 1 (Spring 1990), 119-42
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:
“Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)” in G. Ritzer and C. Rojek (eds.) Encyclopedia of Sociology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
“Utilitarianism” in M. Gibbons (ed.), Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
“Herbert Spencer” in J. Crimmins and D. Long (eds.), Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism (Thoemmes, 2013)
“The New Liberalism” in J. Crimmins and D. Long (eds.), Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism (Thoemmes, 2013)
“Hobhouse, Leonard, Trelawny” in M. Bevir (ed.), Encyclopedia of Political Theory (Sage, 2010)
REVIEWS:
W. J. Mander and S. Panakagou, British Idealism and the Concept of the Self, Hegel Bulletin, 41 (August 2020), 335
W. J. Mander, British Idealism: A History, Victorian Studies (Winter, 2014), 355-7
Frederick Rosen, Mill, Utilitas, 25 (December 2013), 510-13
G. Klosko, Democratic Procedures and Liberal Consensus, Review of Politics (2012)
Bruce L. Kinzer, J.S. Mill Revisited, Victorian Studies, 52 (Winter, 2010), 295-7
Alberto de Sanctis, The ‘Puritan’ Democracy of Thomas Hill Green, Victorian Studies, 49, 3 (Spring 2007), 517-8
Jonathan Riley (ed.), Mill on Liberty, Utilitas, 13, 3 (November 2001), 366-9
R. Latham, The Liberal Moment, Journal of Politics, 62 (May 2000), 608-10
Austin Sarat and Dana R. Villa (eds.), Liberal Modernism and Democratic Individuality, American Political Science Review, 91, 4 (December 1997), 953-4
Horacio Spector, Autonomy and Rights, Utilitas, 6, 1 (May 1994), 143-5
Donald B. Redford, Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times, Journal of Asia and African Studies, XXVIII, 3-4 (1993), 306-8
Jonathan Riley, Liberal Utilitarianism: Social Choice Theory and J.S. Mill's Philosophy, Political Theory, 17, 4 (November 1989), 684-8
"Palestine, Imperialism and the Vagaries of British Military Policy" (review essay), Forum (Winter, 1984), 104-8
"Main Currents in Jewish History and Historical Consciousness" (review essay), Forum (Fall, 1983), 161-7
RECENT LECTURES & CONFERENCE PAPERS:
“Sidgwick’s Parfit,” 17th International Society for Utilitarian Studies Conference: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics, UCL Faculty of Laws, UK (June 2024)
“The ‘General Presumption’ Afforded by Evolution,” Gesellschaft für Utilitarismusstudien, Germany (March 2024)
“Does Moral Common Sense Provide Any Warrant for Moral Truth?”, The Institute of Applied Ethics, University of Hull, UK (February 2024)
“Between Cambridge and Marburg,” Katholische Akademie, Berlin, Germany (February 2024)
“Between Cambridge and Marburg,” Triangle Intellectual History Seminar,” North Carolina, USA (December 2023)
“What’s So Credible About Common Sense?”, 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Rome, Italy (July 2023)
“Caird’s Kant,” British Idealism Annual Conference, Gregynog, UK (December 2019)
“T. H. Green’s Hume,” Institute of Intellectual History Seminar, University of St. Andrews, UK (November 2019)
“Forced Exile and the Interpretation of Texts,” University of Marburg, Germany (June 2018)
“Anxieties of Ideal Utilitarianism,” Plenary Speaker, Conference on British Idealism and the New Liberalism, University of Genoa, Italy (March 2018)
“Making Better Sense of Ideal Utilitarianism,” University of Liverpool, UK (December 2017)
“Exile, Interpretation and Strauss’ Dispute with Löwith,” Wake Forest University (December 2017)
“Ideal Utilitarianism,” Workshop on Mill, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany (November 2017)
“The Exile of ‘Natural Understanding,’” David Patterson Lecture, Oxford University (October 2017)
“Making Sense of Ideal Utilitarianism,” Happiness in Moral & Political Thought, UCL, London (October 2017)
“Freedom, Good and Evil,” Political Studies Association Annual Conf., Glasgow, UK (April 2017)
“Löwith, Strauss and ‘Natural Understanding,’” Workshop on Heidegger in America, Colorado College (February 2017)
“Reading Hobbes in Baltimore,” APSA, Philadelphia, (September 2016), panel commemorating Richard E. Flathman
“Sidgwick and the ‘General Presumption’ Afforded by Evolution,” Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, National Humanities Center, (April 2016)
“Moore’s ‘Hide-Bound Orthodoxy,’” Political Studies Assoc. Annual Conf., Univ. of Sheffield, UK (April 2015)
“Intellectual History and Philosophy,” History of Political Thought Seminar, Oxford University (October 2014)
“What Philosophical Use Is Intellectual History?” Inaugural Lecture, Universität Oldenburg, Germany (June 2014)
“The ‘General Presumption’ Afforded by Evolution,” Workshop on Henry Sidgwick: Does Inquiry into the Origins of Morality “No More Properly” Belong to “Ethics than the Corresponding Questions as to the Cognition of Space Belong to Geometry?” Universität Hamburg, Germany (January 2014), organizer of the workshop
“What Philosophical Use Is Intellectual History?” Universität Hamburg, Germany (November 2013)
“Talmud in the Wrong Place,” Conference on Exile and Interpretation, Wake Forest University (November 2012) with Avihu Zakai
“What Use is Intellectual History?” 12th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, New York University, New York (August 2012)
“What Nietzsche ‘Wants’ to Say,” Nietzsche and Community, Wake Forest University (April 2012), response to paper by Maudemarie Clark
“Strauss on Hobbes as Talmud in the Wrong Place,” Simon Dubnow-Institut, University of Leipzig, Leipzig Germany (December 2011)
“Were Mill and Sidgwick Rule Utilitarians?”, 11th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Lucca, Italy (June 2011)
“Interpreting Mill,” University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy (June 2010)
“Mill, Sidgwick and the Liberal Tradition,” Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture, University of Hull, UK (May 2010)
“The Exile of Interpretation,” Seminar in the History of Political Ideas, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London, UK (February 2010)
“How Much Utilitarianism is There Really in the New Liberalism?” Special Symposium on my Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism, Conference on Rediscovering Collingwood and the British Idealists, University of Hull, Hull, UK (December 2009)
Commentator and Panel Chair, “What is Jewish If Anything in Isaiah Berlin’s Philosophy?” Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (August 2009)
“The Exile of Interpretation,” Simon Dubnow-Institut, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (July 2009)
“Interpreting Mill,” Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan (January 2009)
Special seminar on my book Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism, Yokohama National Univ., Japan (January 2009)
“Interpreting Mill,” 10th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, University of California Berkeley, California (September 2008)
“The Exile of Interpretation,” Duke-UNC Jewish Studies Seminar, University of North Carolina (May 2008)
“Interpreting Liberalism,” Ideologies, Political Theory and the Practice of Politics: Themes from the Work of Michael Freeden, Mansfield College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK (April 2008)
“Exile, Historicism and the Autonomy of Texts,” Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Murphy Institute, Tulane University (April 2007)
“Historicism and the Autonomy of Texts,” Jacob Talmon and Totalitarianism Today, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (December 2006)
“The ‘Strange Tangles’ of Mill’s Moral Almanack,” Keynote Lecture, Bicentenary Conference on John Stuart Mill, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan (September 2006)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Co-Organizer, “Workshop on Heidegger in America,” Colorado College, February 17, 2017
Organizer of “Workshop on Henry Sidgwick: Does Inquiry into the Origins of Morality ’No More Properly’ Belong to Ethics than Corresponding Questions as to the Cognition of Space Belong to Geometry?” Department of Philosophy, Universität Hamburg, Germany, January 9, 2014
Chair and Co-Organizer, International Conference, Exile and Interpretation, Wake Forest University, November 2012
Co-Coordinator and Faculty Member, Triangle Intellectual History Seminar (Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and Wake Forest University), 2010-present
Co-Coordinator, Jewish Studies Seminar, (Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University), 2010-18
Associate Member, Centre for the Study of British Idealism and New Liberalism, Hull University, UK, 2009-present
Conference Committee, The John Stuart Mill Bicentennial Conference, 1806-2006, London, April 2006
Book Review Editor, Utilitas (2006-present, reappointed 2010)
Chair and Organizer, Utilitarianism 2000, 6th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Wake Forest University, March 2000
REFEREE FOR:
Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, Blackwell Publishers, State University of New York Press, Bloomsbury Press, Ashgate Press, Political Theory, Utilitas, Political Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Political Ideologies, Journal of Politics, The Review of Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Journal of the History of Biology, Prolegomena, Journal of the History of Biography, US Student Fulbright National Screening Committee, Economic and Social Science Research Council in the UK and NEH Summer Stipends
LANGUAGES:
English, Hebrew, German and French