Jeremy Waldron ( eng. Jeremy Waldron ; October 13, 1953 , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand and American philosopher of law and political theorist . It is recognized as one of the leading political and legal philosophers of our time. Supporter of legal positivism .
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| Scientific field | philosophy of law , political theory |
| Place of work | New York University , University of Oxford , Queen Victoria University (Wellington) |
| Alma mater | University of Otago , Lincoln College (University of Oxford) |
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Biography
Jeremy Waldron was born and raised in New Zealand. He attended the Southland School for Boys in Invercargill , and subsequently - the University of Otago in Dunedin , where he received a bachelor's degree in philosophy (1974) and a bachelor of law degree with distinction (1978). Upon graduation, he was accredited as a barrister and solicitor at the Supreme Court of New Zealand .
In 1986, he received a degree in philosophy from Lincoln College, Oxford , where he worked under the supervision of Ronald Dvorkin and Alan Ryan. .
Academic career
In the 1980s, Waldron taught in the UK : in 1980-1982 at Lincoln College, and in 1982-1987 at the University of Edinburgh .
In the late 1980s, Waldron moved to the United States , where he became a professor of law at Berkeley (1987–1995) and a professor of politics at Princeton (1995–1997).
Since 1997, Waldron’s academic activities have been associated primarily with New York. In 1997–2006, Waldron teaches at the Columbia School of Law ( Columbia University ). Currently working in the law school at New York University . Together with Murphy and Scheffler, he regularly holds a colloquium (academic seminar) on legal, social and political philosophy, founded in 1987 by Dvorkin and Nagel .
In 2010-2014 he was an honorary Chichely professor at Oxford. Member of the American Philosophical Society (2015 [2] ).
Ideas
In political theory, he rejected approaches that reduce political problems to ethical ones , in connection with which he is often characterized as a representative of a realistic trend in this discipline [3] . However, Waldron’s philosophy (for example, in Political Political Theory ) pays particular attention to the political institutions of modern liberal democracies , to the “correct” institutional design, and not to abstract political values that are not reducible to morality, which makes it a critic of moralism. and realism in the normative political theory [4] .
Major Works
- Political Political Theory: Essays on Institutions . - Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. - 403 p.
Notes
- 2 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 143115588 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Newly Elected - April 2015 | American Philosophical Society
- Ston Galston W. Realism in Political Theory // European Journal of Political Theory. - 2010. - Vol. 9, No. 4 . - p. 385–386.
- ↑ Runciman D. Review: Jeremy Waldron, Political Political Theory (Harvard University Press) // European Journal of Political Theory. - 2016. - Vol. 0, number 0 . - P. 2-3. - DOI : 10.1177 / 1474885116671137 .
Links
- Jeremy Waldron . NYU Law.