Zofia Stemplowska
I am Professor of Political Theory at Oxford. I grew up in Warsaw.
Research
I write about justice: global, domestic and how to mitigate historic injustice. My main current focus is on what is owed as a matter of justice regarding public commemoration and remembrance.
I am a Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Asa Briggs Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford. My work webpage is here.
My CV is here.
Other writing
On Warsaw growing by a quarter: LRB Blog
On not blaming the victims of Russian aggression: LSE Blog [or as a podcast here]
On justifying sanctions against Russia: New Statesman (with Avia Pasternak)
On admitting Ukrainian refugees: Public Ethics
‘A Little Town in Poland: on The Crime and The Silence by Anna Bikont’, Times Literary Supplement, 15 April 2016.
‘Dressing for History: on Warsaw Boy by Andrew Borowiec’, Times Literary Supplement, 14 November 2014.
‘Polin: A Wish to be Remembered; The Museum of the History of the Polish Jews’, Times Literary Supplement, 19 November 2014.
‘What Did the Poles Do? Jan T. Gross and the Understanding of a Nation’, Times Literary Supplement, 15 June 2012.
Academic Publications
On Commemoration
‘Go Tell the Spartans, Passerby: Whom to Remember Ahead of Whom?', Journal of Applied Philosophy, forthcoming.
'The Rhodes Statue: Honour, Shame and Responsibility’, Political Quarterly 92 (2021): 629-637. [Here]
‘Duties to the Dead: Is Posthumous Mitigation of Injustice Possible?’, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 6 (2020): 32-58.
‘Remembering War’, Journal of Applied Philosophy 36 (2019): 382-390.
On Duties to Admit Refugees
‘Coercing Compliers to Do More Than One’s Fair Share’, Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie 2 (2019): 147-160.
‘The Duty To Do More Than One’s Fair Share’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 19 (2016): 591-608.
On Global Rights and Duties
‘Citizens with Benefits’, the 96th Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, forthcoming 2022.
‘Is humanity under duty to deliver socioeconomic human rights?’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, forthcoming 2022.
‘Global Poverty’ in Catriona McKinnon, Robert Jubb, and Patrick Tomlin (eds), Issues in Political Theory, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, 2019.
‘Dignified Morality’, Jurisprudence 6 (2015): 309-326 (with Matthew Clayton).
‘Financial Inclusion, Education, and Human Rights’, in Tom Sorell and Luis Cabrera (eds.), Microfinance, Rights, & Global Justice, Cambridge University Press, 2015 (with Kimberley Brownlee).
‘On the Real World Duties Imposed on Us by Human Rights’, Journal of Social Philosophy 40 (2009): 466-87.
On Feasibility
‘The Incentives Account of Feasibility’, Philosophical Studies 178 (2021): 2385-2401.
‘Feasibility: Individual and Collective’, Social Philosophy & Policy 33 (2016): 273-291.
On Dethroning Democratic Legitimacy and on Liberalism
‘Dethroning Democratic Legitimacy’, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 4 (2017): 3-27 (with Adam Swift).
‘What is Wrong with Divinitia’ [part of a symposium on Laborde’s Liberalism’s Religion], Secular Studies 1 (2019): 104-113.
‘Should I Be Proud of Liberalism with Excellence? On the Collective Grounds of Self-Respect’, American Journal of Jurisprudence 63 (2018): 81–91.
‘The Asymmetry Objection Rides Again: On the Nature and Significance of Justificatory Disagreement’, Journal of Applied Philosophy 32 (2015): 133-146 (with Timothy Fowler).
Thought Experiments and Other Exercises
‘The Price of Safety in Schools is Too High When the Most Vulnerable Have to Pay It’ in Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay (eds.), Democratic Discord in Schools, Harvard Education Press, 2019.
‘Trapped in the Experience Machine with a Famous Violinist: Thought Experiments in Normative Theory’, in Adrian Blau (ed.), Methods in Analytical Political Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2017 (with Kimberley Brownlee).
‘Can Moral Desert Qualify or Justify Human Rights?’ in Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, Massimo Renzo (eds.), The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2015.
History of Political Thought
‘“A Quite Similar Enterprise…Interpreted Quite Differently?” James Buchanan, John Rawls and the Politics of the Social Contract’, Modern Intellectual History 18 (2021): 1010-1033 (with Ben Jackson).
‘On Frank Knight’s “Freedom as Fact and Criterion”’, Ethics 125 (2015): 552-554 (with Ben Jackson) [a short piece].
On Luck Egalitarianism and on Responsibility
‘Substantive Responsibility and the Causal Thesis’ in M. Stepanians and M. Frauchiger (eds.), Proceedings from the Lauener Symposium on Analytical Philosophy (2021): 119–130.
‘How Generous Should Egalitarians Be?’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22 (2019): 269-83.
‘Rarely Harsh and Always Fair: Luck Egalitarianism and Unhealthy Choices’, in S. Matthew Liao (ed.), Current Controversies in Bioethics, Routledge, 2017.
‘Rescuing Luck Egalitarianism’, Journal of Social Philosophy 44 (2013): 402-419.
'Luck Egalitarianism', in Gerald Gaus and Fred D'Agostino (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Routledge, 2013.
‘Harmful Choices: Scanlon and Voorhoeve on Substantive Responsibility’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (2013): 488-507.
Responsibility and Distributive Justice, Oxford University Press, 2011 (co-edited with Carl Knight).
‘Responsibility and Respect: Reconciling Two Egalitarian Visions’, in Knight and Stemplowska (eds.), Responsibility and Distributive Justice (see above). [But I wish I had called it ‘Three Models of Responsibility Sensitive Egalitarianism’]
‘Introduction: Responsibility and Distributive Justice’, in Knight and Stemplowska (eds.), Responsibility and Distributive Justice (see above) (with Carl Knight).
‘Making Justice Sensitive to Responsibility’, Political Studies 57 (2009): 237-59.
‘Holding People Responsible for What They Do Not Control’, Politics, Philosophy & Economics 7 (2008): 355-77.
On Ideal and Nonideal Theory
‘Nonideal Theory’ in Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kimberly Brownlee and David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
‘Sen’s Modest Justice’, Jurisprudence 5 (2014): 376-384.
‘Rawls on Ideal and Nonideal Theory’, in Jon Mandle and David Reidy (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Rawls, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2013 (with Adam Swift).
‘Ideal and Nonideal Theory’, in David Estlund (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2012 (with Adam Swift).
‘What’s Ideal About Ideal Theory?’, Social Theory and Practice 34 (2008): 319-40.
‘Worth the Paper It’s Written On: A Comment on Carole Pateman and Charles W. Mills’s Contract and Domination’, Journal of Political Ideologies 13 (2008): 228-33.
May 2022