Manchester Centre for Political Theory
The Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) is based in Politics at the University of Manchester.
MANCEPT provides an active forum for research and research training in political theory and philosophy. Recent appointments ensure that Manchester retains its long tradition of international excellence in political theory, while shifting the focus of research further in the direction of contemporary analytical political theory and philosophy, and the interaction between theory and more practical and policy concerns. MANCEPT is now one of the largest and strongest research groupings in analytic political theory in the UK. Its core membership includes all members of staff currently teaching and researching in aspects of political theory. It also includes all graduate students working on doctoral dissertations in political theory and philosophy. The Centre also engages the participation of numerous scholars with cognate interests from other parts of the University. Members' research interests range over philosophical, normative, positive and historical aspects of political theory. Further details are available on individual staff and Phd student pages.
MANCEPT organizes a seminar series, as well as fostering research on particular topics through specialized workshops, reading groups and seminars and one-day conferences - most recently on ‘responsibility in a non-ideal world’, ‘normative aspects of rational actor political theory’, ‘the ethics of killing and letting die’ and 'Value, Respect and Wellbeing:Thees from the work of Joseph Raz' - involving MANCEPT members and visiting speakers such as Peter Vallentyne (Missouri-Columbia), Russell Hardin (NYU), Geoffrey Brennan (ANU), Jeff McMahan (Rutgers), Stephen Darwell (Michigan) and Joseph Raz (Oxford and Columbia). MANCEPT members are also active in organizing occasional conferences – such as the 2007 conference on ‘Disability and Disadvantage’ involving (among others) Dan Brock (Harvard), Leslie Francis (Utah), and Douglas MacLean (UNC) and supported by an AHRC award, and the 2008 anual conference of the Society for Applied Philosophy involving (among others) C.A.J. Coady (Melbourne), George Sher (Rice), Jerry Gaus (Arizona), and Richard Dagger (Arizona).
Staff and postgraduate research is disseminated through the MANCEPT Working Papers series and members of MANCEPT are active is presenting their work at seminars and conferences nationally and internationally, as well as through publication. MANCEPT also encourages the work of graduate students, for example by sponsoring an annual international postgraduate conference - Brave New World.
Members of MANCEPT are linked to research centres such as the Centre for the Study of Political Economy and the Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network (DCERN) that provide research connections to other areas of Politics, and to other disciplines.
For further information about MANCEPT contact
MANCEPT
Politics -
School of Social Sciences
University of Manchester
M13 9PL UK
Tel: 0161 275 4906
Fax: 0161-275-4925
E-mail: alan.hamlin@manchester.ac.uk