Zofia Stemplowska

BA, MPhil, DPhil

AFFILIATION

CSSJ

Political Theory Network

College

Worcester College

Students

website

Zofia Stemplowska's personal website

zofia.stemplowska@politics.ox.ac.uk

phone

+44 (0)1865 288331

Office address

Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB

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I joined Oxford in September 2012 from Warwick where I was Associate Professor of Political Theory. Before that I was Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Reading and at Manchester and a Barbara McCoy Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. I studied PPE at New College and completed my MPhil and DPhil at Nuffield College. I grew up in Warsaw.

Professional Activities

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Subject co-Editor (Social and Political Philosophy)

Philosophy and Public Affairs Associate Editor

Research

I am mostly interested in the problem of what people owe to each other as a matter of domestic, global and historical (post war) justice including commemoration and remembrance. I am also interested in the debate about ideal and nonideal theory: the problem of how to make theories of justice relevant to urgent, real world problems while avoiding ad hoc theorising and defeatism.

Research keywords: contemporary political philosophy, global justice, distributive justice, historical injustice, egalitarianism, responsibility and luck, collective responsibility, feasibility, migration, rights, jus post bellum, commemoration and remembrance.

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Teaching

Undergraduate: tutorials in Political Theory (Prelims and the core Honours paper) and Advanced Paper in Theories of Justice.

Graduate: optional MPhil Mitigating Historical Injustice class; core MPhil/MSc Reasoning in Political Philosophy class; core MPhil/MSc Political Theory class.

Publications

Journal Articles

2022

Stemplowska, Z. (2022) “Citizens with benefits”, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 96(1), pp. 41–58.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/arisup/akac008

2021

JACKSON, B. and STEMPLOWSKA, Z. (2021) “‘A Quite Similar Enterprise … Interpreted Quite Differently’? James Buchanan, John Rawls and the Politics of the Social Contract”, Modern Intellectual History, 18(4), pp. 1010–1033.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244320000487

2019

STEMPLOWSKA, Z. (2019) “What is wrong with Divinitia?”, Secular Studies [Preprint].

2018

Stemplowska, Z. (2018) “Remembering War: Fabre on Remembrance”, Journal of Applied Philosophy [Preprint].

Stemplowska, Z. (2018) “Should I Be Proud of Liberalism with Excellence? On the Collective Grounds of Self-Respect”, The American journal of jurisprudence [Preprint].

Stemplowska, Z. (2018) “How generous should egalitarians be?”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy [Preprint].

2016

Stemplowska, Z. (2016) “Feasibility: Individual and Collective”, Social Philosophy and Policy [Preprint].

2015

Jackson, B. and Stemplowska, Z. (2015) “On Frank Knight’s ‘Freedom as Fact and Criterion’”, Ethics, 125(2), pp. 552–554.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1086/678375

STEMPLOWSKA, Z. (no date) “The Rhodes Statue: honour, shame and responsibility”, Political Quarterly [Preprint].

STEMPLOWSKA, Z. (no date) “The Incentives Account of Feasibility”, Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition [Preprint].

STEMPLOWSKA, Z. (no date) “Is humanity under a duty to deliver socioeconomic human rights?”, Journal of Applied Philosophy [Preprint].

STEMPLOWSKA, Z. (no date) “‘Go Tell the Spartans, Passerby’: Whom to Remember Ahead of Whom?”, Journal of Applied Philosophy [Preprint].

Chapters

2020

STEMPLOWSKA, Z. (2020) “Duties to the Dead: Is Posthumous Mitigation of Injustice Possible?”, in.

2018

Stemplowska, Z. and Swift, A. (2018) “Dethroning Democratic Legitimacy”, in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 4.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813972.001.0001

STEMPLOWSKA, Z. (no date) “Substantive Responsibility and the Causal Thesis”, in The Lauener Library of Analytical Philosophy: Themes from Thomas M. Scanlon. The Lauener Foundation for Analytic Philosophy.