Research Interests
Social and Political Philosophy
Feminist Philosophy
Applied Ethics
Philosophy of Law
Global Justice
Philosophy of Human Rights
Cosmopolitan Democracy
Courses Recently Taught
Philosophy of Human Rights (Spring 2011)
Cosmopolitanism, Justice, and Democracy (Spring 2010)
Representative Publications
Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy, and Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Marx's Social Ontology: Individuality and Community in Marx's Theory of Social Reality (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1978).
Cultural Identity and the Nation-State, Co-Editor (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
Gender, Editor (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999).
The Information Web: Ethical and Social Implications of Computer Networking, Editor (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989).
"Approaching Global Justice through Human Rights: Elements of Theory and Practice," in Distributive Justice and International Economic Law, ed. Chi Carmody, Frank Garcia, and John Linarelli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009).
"Structuring Global Democracy: Political Communities, Universal Human Rights, and Transnational Representation," Special Issue on Global Democracy and Political Exclusion, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 40, no. 1 (January, 2009): 24-46.
"Reconceiving Autonomy and Universality as Norms for Global Democracy," in Global Democracy and its Difficulties, ed. Anthony J Langlois and Karol Edward Soltan (London: Routledge, 2008), 160-172.
"Transnational Solidarities," Special Issue on Solidarity, ed. Carol Gould and Sally Scholz, Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 38, no. 1, (Spring, 2007): 146-162.
"Recognition in Redistribution: Care and Diversity in Global Justice," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 46 (2007, Supplement): 91-103.
"Group Rights and Social Ontology," The Philosophical Forum, Special Double Issue on
Philosophical Perspectives on National Identity, Vol. XXVIII, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Winter, 1996-97): 73-86.
"Democracy and Diversity: Representing Differences," in Democracy and Difference: Changing Boundaries of the Political, ed. Seyla Benhabib (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1996), 171-186).