Mathew Humphrey
Reader in Political Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Biography
Reader in Political Philosophy and Director of External Relations. My main areas of interest with regard to teaching and research involve environmental political theory and theories of ideology. Recent work has centred upon the relationship between environmental policy outcomes and democratic processes.
Expertise Summary
I teach across three different areas of political theory. Firstly with regard to the theory of environmental politics, secondly on analytical political philosophy and theories of justice, and finally on theories of ideology.
Modules taught include:
M14125/M14225 Justice Beyond Borders
M13086 Global Justice
M13125 Nature, Ecology, and Political Thought
M13011 Theories of Ideology
M12013 Anglo-American Political Philosophy
M14108/M14109 The Politics of Climate Change
Research Summary
My main area of research is in political theory and the environment, with a subsidiary interest in theories of ideology. The most recent work in the former field is a book published in 2007 with… read more
Recent Publications
- HUMPHREY, M I, 2009. Mapping the Moral Future: Environmental Problems and What We Owe to Future Generations. Res Publica, 15(1), 85-95.
- HUMPHREY, M., 2009. Rational Irrationality and Simulation in Environmental Politics: The Example of Climate Change. Government and Opposition, 44(2), 146-166.
- HUMPHREY, M I, 2008. Seeing is Believing?: Aesthetics and the Politics of the Environment. Environmental Politics, 17(1), 138-146.
- HUMPHREY, M I, 2008. Environmentalism, Fairness, and Public Reasons. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 11(2), 177-192.
Current Research
My main area of research is in political theory and the environment, with a subsidiary interest in theories of ideology. The most recent work in the former field is a book published in 2007 with Routledge, Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory. My 2002 book with OUP, Preservation versus the People? argues for a transcendence of the ecocentric/anthropocentric split in environmental ethics. I have edited a special issue of 'Environmental Politics' on political theory and the environment, and more recently a special issue of 'Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy' with Michael Freeden and Gayil Talshir, entitled 'Taking Ideology Seriously: 21st Century Reconfigurations'
Current Research Projects
- Activism and Deliberative Democracy (with Marc Stears, University of Oxford)
- Simulation in Environmental Politics (with Ingolfur Bluhdorn, University of Bath)
Future Research
I am intending to develop a project with Michael Freeden (University of Oxford) on the relationship between interpetative and normative political theory.