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Andrew Lister

Associate Professor

He/Him

PhD (UCLA); MA, BA (McGill)

Political Studies

Political Theory

Associate Professor

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Research Interests

Distributive justice; reciprocity and egalitarianism; classical liberalism and libertarianism; public reason, ‘political’ liberalism, toleration and compromise.

Andrew Lister would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of distributive justice, democratic theory, public reason and political liberalism.

Brief Biography

Before coming to ֱ, Andrew Lister taught at Concordia University and spent a year as FRQSC post-doctoral fellow at the University of Montreal's Centre de recherche en éthique. He has been been a visitor at Oxford University's Center for the Study of Social Justice, and at the UCLouvain's Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale. He specializes in contemporary normative political theory, particularly related to democracy and distributive justice. His research has focused on two main themes:  public reason, or neutrality in political decision-making, and reciprocity, in relation to egalitarianism. He also has an ongoing interest in the work of John Rawls, and its relationships with the work of others (for example, David Hume, Friedrich Hayek, and Frank Knight).

Teaching

For detailed information about political studies courses and instructors, please refer to the Undergraduate and Graduate pages. 

Service (2024/2025)

  • Adjunct Appointments Committee
  • Associate Department Head
  • Departmental Committee

Selected Publications

"," Journal of Political Philosophy, 00, 1– 21, 2023.

“,”&Բ;The Journal of Politics, Vol. 84, No.3, 2022, pp. 1528-1538.

“,”&Բ;Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2020.

“,”&Բ;Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 67-82, 2020.

"," Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Volume 11, Issue 2, Autumn 2018.

"," Moral Philosophy and Politics.Vol. 5, No. 1, 2018, pp.151-72.

The Coherence of Public Reason,”&Բ;The Journal of Moral Philosophy. Vol. 15, No.1, 2018, pp.64-84.

“,”&Բ;Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2017, pp. 155-172.

"," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2017, pp. 47-69.

“,”&Բ;Res Publica, Vol. 23, 2017, pp.117-35.

 Les Ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum, (symposium on Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition), Vol. 10, Number 2, 2015, p. 147-56.

Filozofija i drustvo / Philosophy and Society, Vol. 25, No.1, pp. 12-34, 2014.

“”&Բ;Critical Review, Vol. 25, No. 3-4, pp. 409-444, Fall 2013.

“”&Բ;Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2013, pp. 70-94. 

“”&Բ;European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2013, pp. 316-326.

“" Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 25, No.4, 2011, pp. 349-67.

“”&Բ;Analyze & Kritik, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2011, pp.93-112.

“” Representation, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2010, pp.19-34.

“”&Բ;Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2010, pp. 151-176.

Justice and Reciprocity, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2024).

“Public Reason, Liberal Neutrality, and Marriage,”&Բ;Beyond Same-Sex Marriage, ed. Ronald den Otter (Lexington Books, 2016), pp. 103-128.

"Social Contract," "Markets," "Congruence," "Lexical Priority / Priority of Liberty," "Reasonable Pluralism", in The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon (David Reidy and Jon Mandle, ed.; Cambridge University Press, 2015).

, Bloomsbury (2013).