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Samuel Freeman

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Samuel Freeman

Avalon Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Law

Samuel Freeman works in social and political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of law. He has written books on Liberalism and Distributive Justice (Oxford 2018), Justice and the Social Contract (Oxford 2006), and on the political philosophy of John Rawls (Rawls, Routledge, 2007). He edited the Cambridge Companion to Rawls (2003), as well as John Rawls’s Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy (2007) and his Collected Papers (1999). He is currently working on a manuscript on liberalism and libertarianism.

Education

  • PhD (philosophy)Harvard1985
  • JDNorth Carolina1977
  • ABNorth Carolina1973

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Constructivism, Facts, and Moral Justification, CONTEMPORARY DEBATES IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Thomas Christiano, ed. (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2009)

The Original Position, in STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY (2008), (over 20,000 words).

RAWLS (Routledge 2007).

John Rawls: An Overview, in THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO RAWLS 1 (ed., Cambridge University Press 2002).

JUSTICE AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT (Oxford Univ. Press 2006).

Congruence and the Good of Justice, in THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO RAWLS (ed., Cambridge University Press 2002).