基本介紹
- 中文名：托馬斯
- 學位/學歷：博士
- 職業：教師
- 專業方向：Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
- 任職院校：武漢大學
個人經歷,研究方向,主講課程,榮譽獎項,學術成果,
個人經歷
DR. THOMAS M. BESCH
School of Philosophy,
Department of Philosophy,
Wuhan University,
The University of Sydney,
Wuhan, 430072 Hubei, China.
NSW 2006, Australia.
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION
Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy.
EDUCATION
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY(DPHIL), Philosophy, University of Oxford (2005).
MAGISTER (equivalent to MPhil), Philosophy, University of Hamburg(1996).
ZWISCHENPROFUNG (equivalent to BA), Philosophy, University of Hamburg(1992).
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
LUOJIA DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR IN PHILOSOPHY, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University,
Wuhan, China(Sep 2015-present).
RESEARCH FELLOW, Department of Philosophy, The University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec
Kralove, Czech Republic (Jan-Aug. 2015).
LECTURER IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (equivalent US Asst. Prof.), Department of Philosophy,
The University of Sydney (Jul 2007-Dec 2014) and HONORARY RESEARCH(Jan.
2015-present).
研究方向
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
History Social and Political Philosophy, Introductory Logic, Epistemology.
EDUCATION
主講課程
Taught and designed undergraduate and graduate classes and engaged in BA, MA, MPhil and
PhD supervision. Several Hons and MA and MPhil completions. One PhD completion(Ben
Cross); currently acting as primary supervisor for one PhD candidate.
Taught and designed undergraduate and graduate classes and engaged in BA, MA, MPhil and
PhD supervision. Several Hons and MA and MPhil completions. One PhD completion(Ben
Cross); currently acting as primary supervisor for one PhD candidate.
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Balliol College, University of Oxford (Jun-Oct 2006).
INSTRUCTOR IN PHILOSOPHY, Department of Philosophy, Bilkent University, Ankara (Sep 2000-
Jun2007).
Regularly taught and designed two writing-intensive 2 year courses in social and political
philosophy while completing my Oxford doctorate.
LECTURER IN LOGIC, Somerville College, University of Oxford (Jan-Jun 2000).
Taught introductory logic to year students.
WARDEN OF JOWETT, Balliol College, University of Oxford (Sep 1999-Sep 2000).
Oversaw Balliol's 3" year students in a disciplinary and counselling function in concert with
the Dean of College.
DISSERTATION
On Practical Constructivism and Reasonableness. Supervisors: Prof. Kinch Hoekstra, Prof. James
榮譽獎項
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Conference Grant, The University of Sydney(2011).
Special Studies Project Support Grant, The University of Sydney(2010).
Research Grant, Bilkent University(2006).
Graduate Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service(DAAD)(1997-98).
學術成果
Political Liberalism, the Internal Conception, and the Problem of Public Dogma. Department of
Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2013); Department of
Philosophy, The University of New South Wales, Sydney(2013); Department of
Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney(2012).
A Short Question about Justification. Symposium: Encounter with Thomas Pogge, Institute for
Democracy and Human Rights, The University of Sydney(2012).
Discursive Inclusion and the Problem of Hermeticality. Faculty of Social Sciences, Istanbul
Technical University, Istanbul (2011).
On Political Legitimacy, Reasonableness, and Perfectionism. Kadish Center for Morality, Law
and Public Affairs, The University of California at Berkeley(2010).
Rawls, Legitimacy, Reasonableness. Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney
(2010); Department of Philosophy, Bogazici University(2010).
Political Justification and the Problem of Hermeticality. Symposium: The Normativity of
Critique, Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney(2010).
On How (Not) to Be a Political Liberal. Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of
Philosophy, The University of New South Wales(2010).
Toleration and the Paradox of Delineation. Annual Conference of the International Society for
Justice Research, Flinders University, Adelaide(2008).
Kantian Constructivism and Perfectionism. Department of Philosophy, The University of
Sydney(2008).
Tolerating Tolerantly. Department of Philosophy, Bogazici University(2008).
O'Neill on Ethical Standing. Department of Philosophy, Bogazici University (2006).
On Constructing Practical Reason. First Meeting of the Turkish Kant Working Group, Bilkent
University, Ankara(2004).
ACADEMIC SERVICE
REFEREE for The Journal of Value Inquiry, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Political Studies,
Political Studies Review, European Journal of Political Theory, Sophia, Theoria, Res
Publica, Dialogue, Social Theory and Practice, and Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
REVIEW EDITOR, Encyclopaedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
REVIEWER for the Czech Science Foundation, GACR(2011).
JUNIOR COORDINATOR, Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney(2009-13).
Coordinated the Department's large year units (enrolments can exceed 800 students).
Included coordinating the teaching of colleagues; managing postgraduate tutors; pastoral care
for tutors and students; managing student results and peer usage of online learning tools
(Blackboard/Lectopia/Echo); developing department-level year procedures and policies.
COORDINATOR, COLLOQUIA COMMITTEE and INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS PROGRAM, Department
of Philosophy, Bilkent University(2006-07).
Headed a committee that organized all department-level research activities in philosophy, and
ran an International Speaker's Program.
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the Australasian Association of Philosophy(since 2009).
Member of the International Society for Justice Research(2008).
Member of the American Philosophical Association(since 2007).
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Uber John Rawls'politischen Liberalismus (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998). A monograph on Rawls's
post-1985 philosophy. I argue that political liberalism faces the problem that liberal principles can be
justified reciprocally acceptable only if the addressees of such a justification endorse points of view
that suitably support liberal content. Rawls responds to this problem by restricting public
justification's scope to include reasonable people only, while construing reasonableness as a
substantive liberal virtue. But, I argue, this is not reasonable: reasonable people will take it that
political justice does not obtain if basic political principles are acceptable from their point of view
only. Thus, political liberalism needs a deeper and more inclusive conception of political legitimacy.
Articles and Book Chapters
"On the Right to Justification and Discursive Respect", forthcoming in Dialogue:
Canadian Philosophical Review (accepted Jul 2015). doi: 10.1017/S0012217315000700
"On Discursive Respect", in Social Theory and Practice Vol. 40/2(2014), pp. 207-231.
"On a Reflexive Case for Human Rights", in Journal of East-West Thought Vol. 3/4
(2013),pp.51-64.
"On Political Legitimacy, Reasonableness, and Perfectionism", in Public Reason Vol. 5/1
(2013),pp.58-74.
"Political Liberalism, the Internal Conception, and the Problem of Public Dogma", in
Philosophy and Public Issues Vol. 2/1 (2012), pp. 153-177.
"Factualism, Normativism, and the Bounds of Normativity", in Dialogue: Canadian
Philosophical Review Vol. 50/2(2011), pp. 347-365.
"Kantian Constructivism, the Issue of Scope, and Perfectionism: O'Neill on Ethical
Standing", in European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 19/1 (2011), pp. 1-20.
."Diversity and the Limits Liberal Toleration", in Duncan(ed.), The Ashgate
Research Companion to Multiculturalism (London: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 75-94.
"Constructing Practical Reason: O'Neill on the Grounds of Kantian Constructivism", in
The Journal of Value Inquiry Vol. 42/1 (2008), pp. 55-76.
Works in Progress
"A Note on Conjecture." On the justificatory status of arguments from conjecture in Rawls-type
public reason.
"On Toleration in Social Work."With Jung-Sook Lee. On the role of ideas of toleration in
mediating ethical standards in social work practice.
"Contextualizing Kantian Constructivism."Third installment on the grounds of Kantian
constructivism.
PRESENTATIONS
On the Right to Justification and Discursive Respect. Department of Philosophy, Bogazici
University, Istanbul (2014): Department of Philosophy, The University of New South
Wales, Sydney(2014); Department of Philosophy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong(2014);
Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan (2015); Department of Philosophy
and Religious Studies, Charles University, Prague(2015).
Toleration in Social Work? Guest lecture in "Culture, Identity and Diversity, "School of Social
Sciences, The University of New South Wales(2014).
