Members

Dr. David V. Axelsen

Research interests: Global justice, nationalism, distributive justice, political activism, equality, applied philosophy.

Contact: D.Axelsen@lse.ac.uk

Professor Katrin Flikschuh

Research interests: Immanuel Kant's political philosophy; Metaphysics and meta-level justification in contemporary political philosophy; Global justice and cosmopolitanism; History of modern political thought.

Contact: K.A.Flikschuh@lse.ac.uk

Dr Sarah Goff

Research interests: Global justice (especially trade and international assistance); Ethics and markets; Democratic theory; Gender equality; Theories of responsibility

Contact: s.goff@lse.ac.uk

Dr Leigh Jenco

Research interests: Modern Chinese political thought (late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries); Interpretive methods; Non-Western and comparative political theory; Theories of culture and identity; Postcolonial theory; Democratic theory and agency; History of political thought.

Contact: L.K.Jenco@lse.ac.uk

Professor Paul Kelly

Research interests: British political theory from the Seventeenth century to the present; Liberal Political Philosophy; Multiculturalism, group rights and national identity; Equality of outcomes and equality of opportunity; Theories of social justice.

Contact: p.j.kelly@lse.ac.uk

Professor Chandran Kukathas

Research interests: History of Liberal Thought; Contemporary Liberal Theory; Multiculturalism.

Contact: c.kukathas@lse.ac.uk

Professor Christian List

Research interests: Social choice theory; Political philosophy (analytic approaches); Theories of democracy and deliberation; Philosophy of social science; Formal epistemology; Philosophy of mind (especially free will and mental causation).

Contact: c.list@lse.ac.uk

Alexandru Marcoci

Research interests: Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Rational Choice Theory, Political Philosophy.

Contact: a.marcoci@lse.ac.uk

Professor Anne Phillips

Research interests: Feminist political theory; Egalitarianism; Body markets and property in the body; The human and humanism; Gender and culture; Democracy and representation.

Contact: a.phillips@lse.ac.uk

Diana Popescu

Contact: D.E.Popescu@lse.ac.uk

Lucia Rubinelli

Research interests: History of political thought (particularly nineteenth century French liberalism, Weimar political thought, the Italian realist tradition), Theories of sovereignty, Constitutional theory, Theories of the state, Political representation, Political parties, electoral laws and political institutions in general,  Italian politics

Contact: l.l.rubinelli@lse.ac.uk

Dr Kai Spiekermann

Research interests: Philosophy of the social sciences; Normative and positive questions of moral theory and political philosophy; Game theory and its philosophical applications; Social epistemology; Environmental change.

Contact: k.spiekermann@lse.ac.uk|

Dr. Laura Valentini

Research interests: The morality of social norms; the methods and nature of political philosophy; ideal theory and feasibility constraints; global justice and (human) rights; democracy; freedom.

Contact: l.m.valentini@lse.ac.uk

Dr Lea Ypi

Research interests: Normative political theory (including democratic theory, theories of justice and issues of migration and territorial rights); Enlightenment political thought (especially Kant); Marxism and critical theory; Nationalism in the intellectual history of the Balkans (especially Albania).

Contact: l.l.ypi@lse.ac.uk