[Jun 2023] EDMUND TWEEDY FLANIGAN ====================== Lehrstuhl fur Philosophie und politische Theorie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munchen Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 80539 Muenchen tweedy.flanigan.us ___________________________________________________________________ EMPLOYMENT LMU 2021- Assistant Professor (Fixed Term) [Akademischer Munich Rat auf Zeit], Chair for Political Theory and Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy ___________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 2021 Ph.D. Harvard University, Political Theory Committee: Danielle Allen, Arthur Applbaum, Eric Beerbohm (Chair), Eric Nelson, Tommie Shelby 2011 M.Phil. University of Oxford, Political Theory 2009 A.B. Georgetown University, Philosophy ___________________________________________________________________ PAPERS 2023 'Futile Resistance as Protest,' Mind 132(527), 631-658. 2021 'From Self-Defense to Violent Protest,' to appear in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 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. ___________________________________________________________________ HONORS 2019-20 Graduate Fellowship in Ethics E. J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University 2019 Sindey Verba Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Harvard University, Department of Government 2015-19 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (F 15, F 16, F 17, S 18, S 19) 2014-15 Harold Laski Fellowship Harvard University, Department of Government ___________________________________________________________________ TEACHING Graduate Courses Munich Political Emotions Winter 2023 Punishment Summer 2022, Summer 2023 Dissent and Resistance Winter 2022 Harvard Ethical Foundations of Political Fall 2018 Thought (with Michael Rosen) Undergraduate Courses Munich Topics in the Philosophy of Summer 2022, Gender and Sexuality Summer 2023 Social Justice Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023 Harvard EJ Safra Center for Ethics Fall 2017, Undergraduate Fellowship Seminar Fall 2018, (with Danielle Allen) Fall 2019 Topics and Resources in Political Spring 2018 Theory (with Cheryl Welch) As Teaching Fellow Harvard EJ Safra Center for Ethics Spring 2018, Undergraduate Fellows Seminar Spring 2019 Dissent and Disobedience in Spring 2019 Democracies Theory and Practice of Republican Fall 2017 Government Foundations of Political Theory Spring 2017 Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Fall 2016 Future of Human Nature Money, Markets, and Morals Fall 2015 ___________________________________________________________________ SUPERVISION BA Theses LMU Marina Praguer Gaeta, Lena Gueldner Harvard Kenton Shimozaki (Social Studies); Daishi Tanaka (Government; James Gordon Bennett Prize winner); Michael Wingate (Joint: Philosophy and Government) ___________________________________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Referee Ethics and Information Technology, CRISPP, Inquiry, Jurisprudence 2017-20 Marshall Scholarship Reading Committee, Boston Region 2017-19 Senior Honors Thesis Examiner, Harvard University Departments: Government; Philosophy; Social Studies 2016 Organizing committee, Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2014-19 Referee, Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory