Jon Mandle

Jonathan Mandle is a Professor of Philosophy and former Philosophy Department Chair at the University at Albany, The State University of New York. He is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog. He is the brother of NBA player Adonal Foyle.

He served as University at Albany Philosophy department chair from 2004-2013.

Education

• B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy
• Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy, under the direction of Kurt Baier

Interests

• Ethics and political theory and their history
• John Rawls' theory of social justice

Publications

• What's Left of Liberalism? An Interpretation and Defense of Justice as Fairness. Lexington Books, 2000. ( ISBN   0-7391-0104-8)
• Global Justice: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishers, 2006. ( ISBN   0-7456-3065-0)

Notable blog posts

• Lifeboat Ethics (critique of Garrett Hardin)
• All posts (Crooked Timber post list for Jon Mandle)

External links

• Faculty page
• Photograph Archived 2005-09-19 at the Wayback Machine