Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy - Ethics, Politics, and Law

Many faculty research projects assess particular conditions that enable or frustrate the realization of lives well-lived, including non-human lives such as socio-institutional trends, material conditions, interpersonal relations, and individual habits and capacities.

Particular projects involve shame, happiness, friendship and love, the many shapes of racism, sexism, and coloniality, freedom and equality, democratic culture and deliberation, justice, the rule of law, judicial review, cosmopolitanism, class, and interspecies ethics.

In pursuing these projects, many theoretical orientations and methodologies operate, even as the nature of social explanation is its own project. Approaches include various critical theories, democratic theory, feminism, liberalism, post-colonial and de-colonial theory, pragmatism, and psychoanalysis, often in dialogue with other disciplines like anthropology, ecology, legal theory, physics, and psychology.

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