Paul Weithman

 

 

Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-5182
E-Mail: weithman.1@nd.edu

Office: 330 Malloy
Office Hours: 2:00-3:00 Mondays or by appointment

 

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University
B.A., University of Notre Dame

Areas of Interest:

Contemporary Political Philosophy, Ethics, Medieval Political Philosophy.

Selected Bibliography

Recent Articles:

• "Claims and Capabilities", forthcoming in the Library of Living Philosophers volume on Martha Nussbaum.
  
  

• “Motivational Adequacy and Educational Faith”, delivered at a conference on Justice and Educational Opportunity, Stanford University, October 18, 2008, in a special issue of Theory and Research in Education8,1 (2010): 93-106.
  
  

• A review of Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love (University of Chicago Press, 2008), The Philosophical Review 120 (2011): 130-34.
  
  

• “Legitimacy and the Project of Rawl's Political Liberalism” to appear in a volume commemorating the 15th anniversary of the publication of Political Liberalism, (Columbia University Press, forthcoming) ed. Thom Brooks and Martha Nussbaum

 

Books:

• Why Political Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2010)
  Reviews:
  • Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
  • Ethics
    
    
• Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship (Cambridge, 2002; paper 2006) Reviews:
  • Ethics
  • Faith and Philosophy
  • Journal of International Migration
  • Journal of Philosophy of Education
  • Political Theory
  • Journal of Religion
  • Oxonian Review of Books
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Society
• ed. Religion and Contemporary Liberalism (1997)
  
  
• ed. Liberal Faith: Essays in Honor of Philip Quinn (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008)

Online Papers:

• "Review of John Rawls, A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews with a link to: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=17045
  
  
• "Educational Adequacy and Moral Faith" delivered at a Stanford conference on education and distributive justice
  
  
• "Comment on Martha Nussbaum's 'Purified Patriotism'", delivered at a Notre Dame Conference on Cosmopolitanism, September 2007
  
  
• "Two Arguments from Human Dignity" , Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissoned by the President's Council on Bioethics (GPO, 2007), pp. 435-67
  
  
• "Review of Samuel Freeman, Justice and the Social Contract", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
  
  
• "Review of Jeffery Stout, Democracy and Tradition", Faith and Philosophy 23 (2006): 221-29
  
  
• "Of Assisted Suicide and the Philosophers' Brief", Ethics 109 (1999): 548-78