THOM BROOKS

Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy

Newcastle University

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Publications

Books written

Hegel’s Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007 (paper edition 2009). Second edition, 2012. Columbia University press is the North American distributor.

Punishment. London: Routledge, 2012 (paper edition 2012).

Books under Contract

Current Controversies in Political Philosophy. London: Routledge.

Global Justice: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.

Political Philosophy: The Fundamentals. Oxford: Blackwell.

Rawls’s Political Liberalism (co-edited with Martha C. Nussbaum). New York: Columbia University Press.

Books Edited

Rousseau and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

The Legacy of John Rawls (with Fabian Freyenhagen). New York and London: Continuum, 2005 (paper edition 2007).

Locke and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

The Global Justice Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008 (paper edition 2008).

The Right to a Fair Trial. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.

Ethics and Moral Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

Global Justice and International Affairs. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

New Waves in Ethics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012.

Justice and the Capabilities Approach. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012.

Just War Theory. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Rawls and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012.

Journal Numbers Edited

Journal of Moral Philosophy 1(1) (2004)—present

Special issue of Bulletin of Hegel Society of Great Britain: Hegel’s Political Philosophy (2012)

Special issue of Contemporary Social Science (2012)

Articles

“Corlett on Kant, Hegel, and Retribution,” Philosophy 76 (2001): 561-80.

“Gilligan on Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Has Legal Punishment Failed Us?” Ethics and Justice 3 (2001) / 4 (2002): 1-10.

“In Search of Shiva: Mahadeviyakka’s Virashaivism,” Asian Philosophy 12 (2002): 21-34.

“A Defence of Sceptical Authoritarianism,” Politics 22 (2002): 152-62.

“Cosmopolitanism and Distributing Responsibilities,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5 (2002): 92-97. This is part of a symposium on cosmopolitanism with David Miller and Thomas Pogge.

“Saving the Greatest Number,” Logique et Analyse 45 (2002): 55-59.

“Does Philosophy Deserve a Place at the Supreme Court?” Rutgers Law Record 27 (2003): 1-17. Reprinted in Thom Brooks (ed.), Rawls and Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012.

“Kant’s Theory of Punishment,” Utilitas 15 (2003): 206-24.

“Choosing Correct Punishments,” Archives de Philosophie du Droit 47 (2003): 365-69.

“Can We Justify Political Inequality?” Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 89 (2003): 426-38.

“T. H. Green’s Theory of Punishment,” History of Political Thought 24 (2003): 685-701. Reprinted in John Morrow (ed.), T. H. Green. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

“Is Hegel a Retributivist?” Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 49/50 (2004): 113-26. Winner of a prize from the Hegel Society of Great Britain.

“On the Relation between Law and Morality,” Associations: Journal for Legal and Social Theory 8 (2004): 135-39.

“Hegel’s Theory of International Politics: Reply to Jaeger,” Review of International Studies 30 (2004): 149-52.

“Retributivist Arguments against Capital Punishment,” Journal of Social Philosophy 35 (2004): 188-97.

“The Right to Trial by Jury,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (2004): 197-212. Reprinted in Thom Brooks (ed.), The Right to a Fair Trial. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 83-98.

“A Defence of Jury Nullification,” Res Publica 10 (2004): 401-23. Reprinted in Thom Brooks (ed.), The Right to a Fair Trial. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 225-47.

“On Jury Nullification,” Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 97 (2005): 169-75.

“Better Luck Next Time: A Comparative Analysis of Socrates and Mahayana Buddhism on Reincarnation,” Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 10 (2005): 1-25.

“Hegel’s Ambiguous Contribution to Legal Theory,” Res Publica 11 (2005): 85-94.

“Kantian Punishment and Retributivism: A Reply to Clark,” Ratio 18 (2005): 237-45.

“Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart,” in Stuart Brown (ed.), Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005, pp. 389-91.

(with Fabian Freyenhagen) “Introduction,” in Thom Brooks and Fabian Freyenhagen (eds), The Legacy of John Rawls. New York and London: Continuum, 2005, pp. 1-21.

“An Intentionally New Way of thinking About Voting,” Review Journal of Political Philosophy 3 (2005): 1-7. Czech version is “Intencionálně nov? způsob myšlení o volbách,” Filosoficky Časopis 52 (2004): 483-88.

“Let a Thousand Nomoi Bloom? Four Problems with Robert Cover’s Nomos and Narrative,” Issues in Legal Scholarship (article five) (2006): 1-20.

“Knowledge and Power in Plato’s Political Thought,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 (2006): 51-77.

“Does Bevir’s Logic Improve Our Understanding of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right?” The European Legacy 11 (2006): 765-74.

“Plato, Hegel, and Democracy,” Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 53/54 (2006): 24-50.

“On Ellis’s Deterrence Theory of Punishment,” Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 92 (2006): 594-96.

“The Reception of Hegel in Britain,” in A. C. Grayling and Andrew Pyle (eds), The Encyclopedia of British Philosophy. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006, pp. 1424-25.

“No Rubber Stamp: Hegel’s Constitutional Monarch,” History of Political Thought 28 (2007): 91-119.

“Rethinking Punishment,” International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy 1 (2007): 27-34.

“Equality and Democracy: The Problem of Minimal Competency,” Ethical Perspectives 14 (2007): 3-12.

“Between Natural Law and Legal Positivism: Dworkin and Hegel on Legal Theory,” Georgia State University Law Review 23 (2007): 513-60.

“Punishing States That Cause Global Poverty,” William Mitchell Law Review 33 (2007): 519-32.

“The Fall Paradox,” Philosophy and Theology 19 (2007): 3-5.

“Human Rights,” in Mark Bevir (ed.), Encyclopedia of Governance, vol. Thousand Oaks, SAGE, 2007, pp. 423-28.

“Ride the Lightning: Why Not Execute Murderers?” in William Irwin (ed.), Metallica and Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, pp. 127-34.

“Shame on Me, Shame on You? Nussbaum on Shame Punishment,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (2008): 322-34.

“Was Green a Utilitarian in Practice?” Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 14 (2008): 5-15.

“Is Plato’s Political Philosophy Anti-Democratic?” in E. Kofmel (ed.), Anti-Democratic Thought. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2008, pp. 17-33.

“A Two-Tiered Reparations Theory: A Reply to Wenar,” Journal of Social Philosophy 39 (2008): 666-69.

“Bringing the Republic to Life: Teaching Plato’s Republic to First-Year Students,” Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 3 (2008): 211-21.

“Punishment and Reincarnation,” Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 13 (2008): 21-38.

“Miller et « Distributing Responsibilities »” (in French), Archives de Philosophie du Droit 52 (2009): 381-86.

“A Critique of Pragmatism and Deliberative Democracy,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (2009): 50-54.

“Muirhead, Hetherington, and Mackenzie,” in William Sweet (ed.), The Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2009, pp. 209-32.

“The Problem with Polygamy,” Philosophical Topics 37 (2009): 109-22. Reprinted in Thom Brooks (ed.), Justice and the Capabilities Approach. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012.

“Justifying Terrorism,” Public Affairs Quarterly 24 (2010): 189-95.

“Punishment and British Idealism,” in Jesper Ryberg and J. Angelo Corlett (eds), Punishment and Ethics: New Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 16-32.

“Hegel: Philosophy of Politics,” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy (2010) (5,200 words).

“The Bible and Capital Punishment,” Philosophy and Theology 22(1-2) (2010): 279-83.

“The View from the Journal of Moral Philosophy,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 10(1) (2010): 16-17.

“The Ideal Scotch: Lessons from Hegel,” in Fritz Allhof and Marcus Adams (eds), Whiskey and Philosophy: A Small Batch of Spirited Ideas. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2010, pp. 152-61.

“Retribution and Capital Punishment,” in Mark D. White (ed.), Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 232-45.

“Is Bradley a Retributivist?” History of Political Thought 32(2) (2011): 83-95.

“What Did the British Idealists Do for Us?’ in T. Brooks (ed.), New Waves in Ethics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 28-47.

“Punishment: Political, Not Moral,” New Criminal Law Review 14(3) (2011): 427-38.

“Respect for Nature: The Capabilities Approach,” Ethics, Place and Environment 14(2) (2011): 143-46.

“Rethinking Remedial Responsibilities,” Ethics and Global Politics 4(3) (2011): 195-202.

“Between Statism and Cosmopolitanism: Hegel and the Possibility of Global Justice,” in Andrew Buchwalter (ed.), Hegel and Global Justice. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011, forthcoming.

“British Idealism,” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy (2011) (5,800 words).

“Punishment,” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy (2011) (4,500 words).

“Hegel and the Unified Theory of Punishment,” in T. Brooks (ed.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Ethics, Politics, and Law. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012, pp.103-23.

“Natural Law Internalism,” in T. Brooks (ed.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Ethics, Politics, and Law. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012, pp. 167-79.

Articles in Magazine and Newspapers

“Thought and deed born of idealism,” Times Higher Education Supplement (October 20, 2006): 28-29.

“Defence of the Jury is an Open and Shut Case,” Times Higher Education Supplement (March 2, 2007): 14.

“Us against us in the land of Mahatma,” Times Higher Education Supplement (June 29, 2007): 21.

Review of Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha C. Nussbaum, Times Higher Education (April 17, 2008): 47.

Review of Killing in War by Jeff McMahan, Times Higher Education (October 8, 2009): 47.

“Better Together,” Times Higher Education (February 10, 2011): 26.

“‘Observergate’ and Academic Freedom,” New Statesman (15 April 2011).

“A New Approach,” The Philosophers’ Magazine 54 (2011): 110-11.

“Mention of Big Society a Big Worry,” The Journal (Newcastle) (22 June 2011): 18.

“Continuing Scandal of a Political Slogan in a Research Council Publication,” The Guardian (Higher Education Network) (27 June 2011).

“A Connecticut Yankee in King Alan’s Court,” Times Higher Education (7 July 2011): 44-46.

Review of the British Idealism: A History by W. J. Mander, Times Higher Education (14 July 2011): 51.

Other essays

“Publishing Advice for Graduate Students” (2008). This and original versions downloaded over 10,500 times on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) since December 2005.

“Guidelines on How to Referee” (2010). Downloaded over 1,000 times on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) since December 2010.

Articles Forthcoming

“The Fragility of an Overlapping Consensus,” in Thom Brooks and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds), Rawls’s Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press.

“After Fukushima Daiichi: The Importance of Global Institutions for Nuclear Power Policy,” Ethics, Policy and Environment.

“Autonomy, Freedom, and Punishment,” Legal Theory in China.

“Climate Change and Negative Duties,” Politics.

“Global Justice and Politics,” in Fred D’Agostino and Jerry Gaus (eds), Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy. London: Routledge.

“Capabilities,” in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell.

“Citizenship,” in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell.