Political Philosophy, Here and Now Essays in Honour of David Miller

Political Philosophy, Here and Now honours David Miller's remarkable contribution to political philosophy. Over the last fifty years, Miller has published an extraordinary range of work that has shaped the discipline in many different areas, including social justice, democracy, citizenship, nationality, global justice, and the history of political thought. His work is characterised by its commitment to a kind of theorising that makes sense to the people who have to put its principles into practice. This entails paying close attention to empirical evidence from the social sciences, but also results in a willingness to take the everyday beliefs of lay people seriously in its theorising. The aim is the construction of a political philosophy that can be radically reformative, but that nonetheless is justifiable and realisable here and now. This book brings together a range of papers from leading political theorists concerning many different aspects of Miller's work, on topics including national responsibility and global justice, self-determination, collective responsibility, human rights, immigration, market socialism, national identity, citizenship, multiculturalism, public goods, the political thought of David Hume, and the methodology of political philosophy. It includes a chapter by Miller himself, which develops his own distinctive approach to political theorising. The volume concludes with a complete bibliography of David Miller's published work.

Daniel Butt, Associate Professor in Political Theory, University of Oxford,Sarah Fine, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, King's College London,Zofia Stemplowska, Professor of Political Theory, University of Oxford

Daniel Butt is Associate Professor in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Political Theory at Balliol College, Oxford. He has written on topics related to historic injustice, global justice, environmental ethics, equality, and legal theory, and is the author of
Rectifying International Injustice: Principles of Compensation and Restitution Between Nations (OUP, 2009).


Sarah Fine is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London. She is also a Fellow at the Forum for Philosophy, LSE. She co-edited (with Lea Ypi) Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership (OUP, 2016). Her research to date has focused on the ethics of migration.
She is also interested in work at the intersection of philosophy and the arts.

Zofia Stemplowska is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford and Asa Briggs Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Her research interests include domestic, global, and historical justice. She is the co-editor (with Carl Knight) of Responsibility and Distributive Justice (OUP, 2011).

1. Introduction, Daniel Butt, Sarah Fine, and Zofia Stemplowska
2. On Self-Determination, Anna Stilz
3. Mobs, Firms and Nations - A Critique of David Miller's Account of Collective Responsibility, Avia Pasternak
4. Fertility and Collective Responsibility, Andrew Williams
5. Miller's Crossing, Jonathan Quong
6. Community, Democracy and Immigration, Christopher Heath Wellman
7. Immigration: A Lockean Perspective, Jeremy Waldron
8. No Country for Strangers?, Daniel Butt and Zofia Stemplowska
9. Miller's Minarets: Religion, Culture, Domination, Cécile Laborde
10. Republican Citizenship, National Identity and Trust in Diverse States, Patti Tamara Lenard
11. Public Good Fairness, Alan Patten
12. Hume on Authority and Opinion, Leslie Green
13. Political Philosophy and Autobiography, Sarah Fine
14. An Interview with David Miller, Sarah Fine
15. Doing Political Philosophy, David Miller
Appendix - David Miller: Bibliography of Published Work