ANTHONY LADEN

Department of Philosophy, M/C 267
1411 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607

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Anthony Laden is a Professor. He received his Ph.D from Harvard University in 1996. He works in moral and political philosophy, where his research focuses on liberalism, democratic theory, feminism and the politics of identity, and the nature of practical reason and reasoning. He also has interests in the history of moral and political philosophy, especially Rousseau, Kant and Hegel. He is the author of Reasonably Radical: Deliberative Liberalism and the Politics of Identity, (Cornell University Press, 2001), and the co-editor (with David Owen) of Multiculturalism and Political Theory (Cambridge, 2007). His recent articles include "The House the Jack Built: Thirty Years of Reading Rawls" Ethics (Jan. 2003), “Evaluating Social Reasons: Hobbes vs. Hegel” Journal of Philosophy (2005), and “Negotiation, Deliberation and the Claims of Politics” (in Multiculturalism). He is the Section Editor for Political Philosophy for Philosophy Compass. He is currently at work on a collection of essays on the work of John Rawls as well as a book on reasoning, relationships and idle conversation. In the future, he wants to figure out if human rights need philosophical foundations, and what role experts play in a democracy.