Dr Jonathan Quong

Jonathan completed a D.Phil in political philosophy at Nuffield College, Oxford, and he joined the Manchester Centre for Political Theory as a lecturer in September 2003. He spent the 2005-06 academic year as a visiting Faculty Fellow at The Murphy Institute's Center for Ethics & Public Affairs. He was also on research leave during 2007-08, funded, in part, by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Jonathan is the associate editor of Representation: The Journal of Representative Democracy.

Jonathan's CV is available here.

Political and Moral Philosophy: political liberalism, liberal perfectionism, contractualism, multiculturalism, democratic theory, public reason, and the ethics of killing in self-defence.

I’m currently finishing a monograph about the nature of liberal political theory tentatively titled, Liberalism Without Perfection. In the book I critique recent liberal perfectionist theories and defend a version of political liberalism. I’m also working on papers about: (1) the ethics of killing in self-defence, (2) the distribution of political authority, and (3) the demands of fairness in non-ideal circumstances.

Undergraduate

• POLI 10702 - Introduction to Political Theory
• POLI 20881 - Freedom and Equality
• POLI 30052 - Pluralism, Democracy and Citizenship
• SOCS 30001 - Topics in PPE

Postgraduate

• POLI 60221 - The Ethics of Killing
• POLI 70602 - Political Theory Research Training

 

Publications Database

• Forthcoming 'Killing in Self-Defense.' Ethics.
• Forthcoming 'The Distribution of Authority.' Representation: The Journal of Representative Democracy (for a symposium on David Estlund's Democratic Authority).
• 2007 'Political Liberalism Without Scepticism.' Ratio, Vol. 20, no. 3: 320-340.
• 2007 'Contractualism, Reciprocity, and Egalitarian Justice.' Politics, Philosophy, & Economics, Vol. 6, no. 1: 75-105.
• 2006 'Cultural Exemptions, Expensive Tastes, and Equal Opportunities.' Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 23, no. 1: 53-71.
• 2005 'Disagreement, Asymmetry, and Liberal Legitimacy.' Politics, Philosophy, & Economics, Vol. 4, no. 3: 301-330.
• 2004 'The Rights of Unreasonable Citizens.' Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 12, no. 3: 314-335.
• 2004 'The Scope of Public Reason.' Political Studies, Vol.52, no. 2: 233-250.

Phd Students

• Richard Child - working on cosmopolitanism and global justice
• Chloë Fitzgerald - working on emotions, intuitions, and moral heuristics