Samuel Freeman | Department of Philosophy

Avalon Professor of the Humanities

Professor of Philosophy and of Law

Ph.D. Harvard University

J.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

A.B. (Highest Honors) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Samuel Freeman teaches courses on social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, and philosophy and the Constitution. He has written books on Liberalism and Distributive Justice (2018), Justice and the Social Contract (2007) and on the political philosophy of John Rawls (2007). Freeman edited the Cambridge Companion to Rawls (2002), as well as John Rawls's Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy (2007) and his Collected Papers (1999). He is currently working on a manuscript on liberalism.

Website: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/sfreeman/

Research Interests

Social and Political Philosophy
Moral Philosophy
Philosophy of Law

Selected Publications

Find me on PhilPapers: http://philpapers.org/profile/10969

Liberalism and Distributive Justice (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Rawls, (The Philosophers Series, Routledge, 2007; Chinese translation, 2014; Spanish translation, 2016)

Justice and the Social Contract, (Oxford University Press, 2006)

‘Contractarian Justice and Severe Cognitive Disabilities,' in Disability and Practice, edited by Thomas Hill and Adam Cureton, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 174-203

‘Distributive Justice and the Difference Principle,' Oxford Handbook to Distributive Justice, Serena Olsaretti, ed., Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 13-40

‘Liberal and Illiberal Libertarians,’ in The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, Routledge, 2017, 108-124.

‘Property Owning Democracy and the Difference Principle,’ Analyse & Kritik, vol. 9 (2013): 9-36

'The Social and Institutional Bases of Distributive Justice,' in Cosmopolitanism versus Noncosmopolitanism, Gillian Brock, ed. (Oxford U Press, 2013), 198-221

‘Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal Traditions,’ Social Philosophy and Policy 28 (no. 2 Summer 2011): 19-55

‘Constructivism, Facts, and Moral Justification,’ Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy, Thomas Christiano, ed. (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2009)

'The Burdens of Public Justification,' Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 6 (No.1, 2007): 5-43

"Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is not a Liberal View" Philosophy and Public Affairs, 30, 2 (Spring 2002), 105-151.

“John Rawls: An Overview,” in The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Samuel Freeman, ed., 1-61.(Cambridge University Press, 2003)

“Deliberative Democracy: A Sympathetic Comment,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 29, 4 (Fall 2000 issue), 371-418

“Utilitarianism, Deontology, and the Priority of Right,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 23, 4 (Fall 1994), pp.313-349.

“Original Meaning, Democratic Interpretation, and the Constitution,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 21, 1 (Winter 1992), pp.3-42.

"Property as an Institutional Convention in Hume's Account of Justice," Archiv für
Geschichte der Philosophie, vol.73, no.1, 1991, pp.20-49.

“Reason and Agreement in Social Contract Views,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 19, 2 (Spring 1990), pp.122-157.

"Constitutional Democracy and the Legitimacy of Judicial Review,"
Law and Philosophy, vol.9, no.4, November 1990, pp.327-370.

sfreeman@sas.upenn.edu

492 Logan Hall

CV (file):

CV_Samuel_Freeman_July 2018.pdf