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Edmund Tweedy Flanigan
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet
Lehrstuhl fuer Philosophie IV
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 Muenchen
e.flanigan@lmu.de
tweedy.flanigan.us
Academic Positions
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LMU Munich, 2021-
Assistant Professor, Fixed Term (*Akademischer Rat auf Zeit*) at the
Chair for Philosophy and Political Theory, Faculty of Philosophy
Education
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Harvard University, Ph.D. in Political Theory, 2014-2021
Dissertation: "Essays on the Morality of Violence"
Committee: Danielle Allen, Arthur Applbaum, Eric Beerbohm (Chair),
Eric Nelson, Tommie Shelby
Oxford University, M.Phil. in Political Theory, 2009-2011
Georgetown University, A.B. in Philosophy, 2006-2009
Claremont McKenna College, progress towards degree, 2005-2006
Publications
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### Articles
2023. "Futile Resistance as Protest," *Mind* 132(527): 631-658.
2023. "From Self-Defense to Violent Protest," *Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy* 26(7): 1094-1118.
(Online first 5 January 2021.)
2020. "Do We Have Reasons to Obey the Law?," *Journal of Ethics &
Social Philosophy* 17(2): 159-197.
2018. "The Small Improvement Argument, Epistemicism and
Incomparability," with John Halstead, *Economics & Philosophy* 34(2):
199-219.
### Contributions to Edited Volumes
Forthcoming. "Case Study: Disobedient Protest and the Global Climate
Movement," to appear in *Issues in Political Theory* (5th edition),
eds. Rob Jubb and Patrick Tomlin (Oxford University Press), online.
Honors & Fellowships
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Graduate Fellowship in Ethics, Center for Ethics, Harvard University,
2019-2020
Sidney Verba Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching,
Department of Government, Harvard University, 2019
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching: Fall 2015,
Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019
Harold Laski Fellowship, Department of Government, Harvard University,
2014-2015
Talks
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"Non-Violence as Commitment to a Relationship"
Central European University, POLEMO Seminar, 2024
"Why Riot? An Expressive Theory of the Justification of Rioting"
University of Bamberg Political Theory Research Seminar, 2023
The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind
Association, 2023
LMU Munich Social and Political Philosophy Colloquium, 2023
University of Zurich, The Ethics of Defending Yourself and What Is
Yours Under Incomplete Information, 2023
Association for Political Theory Annual Conference, 2021
"Futile Resistance as Protest"
Butler University, Lavender Mckittrick-Sweitzer's Contemporary
Social and Political Philosophy Seminar, 2021
LMU Munich, Social and Political Philosophy Colloquium, 2021
Central European University, Department of Political Science, 2020
"From Self-Defense to Violent Protest"
APSA Annual Conference, 2020
Oxford Political Theory Graduate Conference, 2019
Comments
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Daniel Haeuser, "Resistance at the Border: Self-Defense or Violence
against State Officials"
Graduate and Early Career Workshop (faculty respondent), Stockholm
Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, 2023
Suzanne Bloks, "Deliberative Diversity and Democratic Respect"
Munich Graduate Conference in Ethics (faculty respondent), 2023
Attila Mraz, "How to Justify Mandatory Electoral Quotas"
EJ Safra Center for Ethics Fellows-in-Residence Seminar, Harvard, 2020
Session Chair: Zoltan Miklosi, "The Problem of Equal Moral Status"
Truth, Power, and the Foundations of Democracy Workshop, Dartmouth,
2019
Adam Omar Hosein, "Gender Libertarianism in the Workplace"
Harvard Political Theory Colloquium, 2019
Yunmeng Cai, "Reciprocity and the Case of Disability in Contractarian
Theories of Justice"
Harvard Graduate Political Theory Conference, 2018
Anna Stilz, "Theorizing Collective Self-Determination"
Harvard Graduate Political Theory Conference (keynote lecture), 2018
Lucas Stanczyk, "Anti-Paretian Outcome Egalitarianism"
Harvard Political Theory Colloquium, 2016
Renee Jorgensen Bolinger, "The Moral Grounds of Mistaken
Self-Defense"
Harvard Graduate Political Theory Conference, 2015
Teaching
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### Graduate Courses
Emotions and Politics
LMU Munich: Winter 2023
Punishment
LMU Munich: Summer 2022, Summer 2023
Dissent and Resistance
LMU Munich: Winter 2022, Summer 2024
Ethical Foundations of Political Thought, with Michael Rosen
Harvard University: Fall 2018
### Undergraduate Courses
Social Justice
LMU Munich: Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
Topics in the Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality
LMU Munich: Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024
Center for Ethics Undergraduate Fellows Research Workshop, with Danielle Allen
Harvard University: Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Topics and Resources in Political Theory, with Cheryl Welch
Harvard University: Spring 2018
### As Teaching Assistant
Center for Ethics Undergraduate Fellows Seminar (for Arthur Applbaum)
Spring 2018, Spring 2019
Dissent and Disobedience in Democracies (for Arthur Applbaum )
Spring 2019
Theory and Practice of Republican Government (for Dan Carpenter)
Fall 2017
Foundations of Political Theory (for Eric Beerbohm )
Spring 2017
Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature (for Michael Sandel and Douglas Melton)
Fall 2016
Money, Markets, and Morals (for Michael Sandel )
Fall 2015
Supervision
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### Master's Theses
LMU Munich: Chiara Heckl,* Anna-Maria Brandtner*
### Bachelor's Theses
LMU Munich: Kai Schweizer, Alexander Strunk, Lena Gueldner, Marina
Praguer Gaeta
Harvard University: Kenton Shimozaki; Daishi Tanaka (with Cheryl
Welch; James Gordon Bennett Prize winner, 2019)