Fabienne Peter

Research interests

I specialize in moral and political philosophy, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics. My current research interests centre on normativity, especially the intersection between moral and political normativity and epistemic normativity. I have written extensively on legitimacy, democracy, and justice. I have also written on public health ethics, focusing on the relationship between social justice and health inequalities.

Selected publications

Books

Democratic Legitimacy. New York: Routledge, 2008 (from 2011 also available in paperback).
Rationality and Commitment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (co-editor; with Hans Bernhard Schmid).
Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 (co-editor; with Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen).

Papers

'Moral and Political Normativity'
'Epistemic Foundations of Political Liberalism'
'Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Right to Political Participation'
'The Procedural Epistemic Value of Deliberation'. Synthese, forthcoming.
'Authority and Legitimacy.' In Gerald F. Gaus and Fred D'Agostino (eds.) Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy. New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
'Rules, Norms, Commitments.' In: Ian Jarvie and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (eds.) Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science. London: Sage, 2011 (with Kai Spiekermann).
'Political Legitimacy.' In Ed Zalta (ed.) Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy, 2010.
'Rawlsian Justice.' In Paul Anand et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
'Democratic Legitimacy without Collective Rationality.' In B. de Bruin and C. F. Zurn (eds) New Waves in Political Philosophy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
'Pure Epistemic Proceduralism.' Episteme 5(1): 33 - 55, 2008 (special issue on epistemic democracy, guest-edited by David Estlund).
'Democratic Legitimacy and Proceduralist Social Epistemology.' Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 6(3), 2007: 329 - 353.
'The Political Egalitarian's Dilemma.' Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10(4), 2007: 373 - 387.
'Rawls' Idea of Public Reason and Democratic Legitimacy.' Politics and Ethics Review 3(1), 2007: 129 - 143.
'Justice: Political, not Natural.' Analyse und Kritik 28(1), 2006: 382 – 397.
'Choice, Consent, and the Legitimacy of Market Transactions.' Economics and Philosophy 20(1), 2004: 1-18.
'Gender and the Foundations of Social Choice: The Role of Situated Agency.' Feminist Economics 9(2), 2003: 13-32.
'Health Equity and Social Justice.' Journal of Applied Philosophy 18(2), 2001: 159-170. Reprinted in Anand, Peter, and Sen (eds.) Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 93-106.
'Ethical Dimensions of Health Equity.' In Timothy Evans, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya and Meg Wirth (eds.) Challenging Inequities in Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: pp. 25-33 (with Timothy Evans). Spanish translation: "Dimensiones Eticas de la Equidad en Salud." In Evans et. al (eds.) Desafío a la Falta de Equidad en Salud. PAHO, 2002: 27 - 35.

Some recent and upcoming talks

'The Epistemic Circumstances of Democracy'; Democracy Conference, University of Basel, July 2012
'The Procedural Epistemic Value of Deliberation'; Philosophy Department, University of Hull, March 2012
'Rawls' Idea of Public Reason and Democratic Legitimacy'; Rawls Workshop, University of Bochum, February 2012
'Epistemic Foundations of Political Liberalism'; Philosophy Department, University of York, Feburary 2012
'Moral and Political Normativity'; Normativity Workshop, University of Sheffield, January 2012