David Reidy

David Reidy, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, won the 2009 Berger Prize for his paper, “The Structural Variety of Historical Injustices,” which appeared in the Journal of Social Philosophy. The Berger Prize, given by the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Philosophy of Law, is awarded to the author of the best article in the philosophy of law published during the past two years. Reidy, who also won the prize in 2005, is the only person to have won it more than once. Reidy’s co-author, Jeppe von Platz, was formerly a graduate student in philosophy at UT Knoxville and is now working on his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Following is a list of Reidy’s publications since 2006.

Books

• Coercion and the State. Springer Publishing. With Walter Riker, co-editor, 2008.
• Rawls. Ashgate Publishing. Edited collection, 2008.
• On the Philosophy of Law. Monograph, “Philosophical Topics” series. Wadsworth, 2006. 224 pp.
• Rawls’s Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia? Blackwell, 2006. With Rex Martin, co-editor.

Articles & Chapters

• “Human Rights: Institutions and Agendas.” Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 22.4, pgs. 409-433, 2008.
• “John Rawls.” IVR Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, 2008, at http://www.ivr-enc.info/en/topics.php?what=listAll
• “A Just Global Economy: In Defense of Rawls.” The Journal of Ethics, v. 11.2, pgs. 193-236, 2007.
• “Reciprocity and Reasonable Disagreement: From Liberal to Democratic Legitimacy.” Philosophical Studies, vol. 132, pgs. 243-291, 2007.
• “Relativism, Self-Determination and Human Rights,” Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century, Deen Chatterjee, ed., Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. With James Nickel, co-author.
• “Three Human Rights Agendas.” Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, vol. 19, n.2, pgs. 237-255, 2006.
• “The Structural Variety of Historical Injustices.” Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 37, n. 3, pgs. 360-376, 2006. With Jeppe von Platz, co-author.