Dr Peri Roberts
Overview
Position:
Senior Lecturer
Email:
RobertsPM@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 2087 6541
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 76541
Location: Room 2.05, 65-68 Park Place
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.
Selected Publications
Introduction to Political Thought: A Conceptual Toolbox, with P.Sutch, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN: 0748616802 (pb) / 0748616799 (hb), 2004.
Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity, co-edited with Haddock & Sutch, Routledge, ISBN: 0415384621, 2006.
'Identity, reflection and justification', in Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights, Haddock & Sutch (ed.), London & New York, Routledge, 2003.
‘Why thin universalism needs conceptions of society and person’ in Haddock, Roberts & Sutch (ed.s), Principles and Political Order, Routledge, ISBN: 0415384621, 2006.
'Kant, Immanuel', Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences: Vol 1, J.Michie (ed.), London & Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.
Research Unit
Publications
Political Constructivism, Routledge, ISBN: 0415339871, 2007.
Introduction to Political Thought: A Conceptual Toolbox, with P.Sutch, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN: 0748616802 (pb) / 0748616799 (hb), 2004.
This has also been published in the USA as Introduction to Political Thought: Key Concepts and Thinkers (New York University Press, ISBN: 0814775705 (pb), 0814775691 (hb), 2004) and in India and the Far East (Atlantic Publishers, ISBN: 8126905530, 2005).
It is also translated into Swedish as Politiskt Tänkande: en introduction (Studentlitteratur, ISBN: 9789144021232, 2007.
Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity, co-edited with Haddock & Sutch, Routledge, ISBN: 0415384621, 2006.
'Identity, reflection and justification', in Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights, Haddock & Sutch (ed.), London & New York, Routledge, 2003.
‘Why thin universalism needs conceptions of society and person’ in Haddock, Roberts & Sutch (ed.s), Principles and Political Order, Routledge, ISBN: 0415384621, 2006.
'Kant, Immanuel', Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences: Vol 1, J.Michie (ed.), London & Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.
'Natural Rights', Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences: Vol 2, J.Michie (ed.), London & Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.
'Review of G.Gaus, Political Concepts and Political Theories', Political Studies, 49(3), 2001.
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