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Dr Peri Roberts

Overview

Dr Peri Roberts Position: Senior Lecturer Email: RobertsPM@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44(0)29 2087 6541
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 76541
Location: Room 2.05, 65-68 Park Place
Office hours: Monday, 09:30 - 10:30
Tuesday, 16:30 - 17:00

My teaching and research interests are predominantly in contemporary political theory. My focus is on liberal justification in a number of contexts. My Political Constructivism defends an account of the objectivity of certain basic liberal commitments. I have also published on the justifiable liberal responses to the challenges posed by an increasing recognition of the extent and importance of pluralism and multiculturalism.

I am available to supervise postgraduate or undergraduate dissertations and theses in contemporary political theory generally and in liberal theories of justice in particular. I may also supervise more broadly in aspects of the history of political thought.

 

 

Research Unit

Political Theory

Publications

 

Postgraduate Students

Doctoral theses supervised:

  • Foundationalism in Kantian Constructivism
  • From Community to Pluralism: Liberal Nationalism in Wales
  • A Critique of Nationalism and Multiculturalism
  • Social Freedom in a Multicultural State

Masters dissertations supervised include:

  • Is there a contradiction between the conception of autonomy and the conception of right in Kant’s moral and political philosophy?
  • Defining Nationalism and Identity on the Route to the Irish Nation-State between 1884 and 1921.
  • The Problem of Public Justification: D’Agostino’s solution examined.
  • Liberalism and Libertarianism.
  • What Does the Liberal Commitment to Freedom Entail?
  • Is Veganism Morally Preferable to ‘Ethical’ Omnivorism?

Biography

Teaching overview

My research interests are reflected in the undergraduate and postgraduate modules that I am involved in:

Undergraduate modules:

Introduction to Political Thought
Contemporary Liberalism & Distributive Justice
Multiculturalism & Contemporary Political Theory
Justification in Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory
History of Modern Political Thought

Postgraduate modules:

Approaches to Political Theory
Liberalism & Multiculturalism
Political Liberalism
Scanlon’s Contractualism
Between Coercion & Consent