果冻影院

Lecturer (Teaching) in Political Philosophy
Room: 3.11, 36-38 Gordon Street
Email: john.filling@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at 果冻影院. I am also Deputy Director of Education for the Department, responsible for Widening Participation.

I went to a state school in Glasgow then spent all my student life at Oxford (BA in PPE, M.Phil., D.Phil.). My M.Phil. and D.Phil. theses were both supervised by G. A. Cohen. I was the Andrew Fraser Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford (2008-12). Then I had my first stint at 果冻影院, where I was a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science (2012-2015) and Programme Director of the MA in Legal and Political Theory (2012-13, 2015). Before returning to 果冻影院, I was Lecturer then Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (2015-2021), and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, where I remain a Bye-Fellow.

Research

My research focuses on political philosophy and post-Kantian philosophy.聽

My analytic work focuses on questions of structural injustice and domination. What does it mean to say that injustice is 鈥渟tructural鈥�? Which harms, if any, are truly 鈥渟tructural鈥�, and which are purely personal? Can domination be 鈥渟tructural鈥�? My work engages with the leading contemporary theory of domination offered by republicanism, and seeks to develop an alternative account drawn from various radical traditions of political thought (including Marxism, feminism, and critical race theory).聽

My historical work focuses on German Idealism and post-Kantian philosophy, especially the work of G. W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx. In addition, I have a long-standing interest in the study of important but neglected voices in the history of philosophy, especially those of women and philosophers of colour. I am currently working on Ottobah Cugoano, Bettina von Arnim, George Eliot, and Anna Julia Cooper.聽

Publications

John Filling, 鈥楲iberty鈥�, in Michael T. Gibbons et al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). Available at:

Teaching

In recent years, I have taught the following modules:
- POLS0061: Foundations of Political Thought
- POLS0090: Theories of Justice and Injustice
- POLS0097: History of Political Thought
- PUBL0094: The Ethics of Social Media聽

I would welcome applications from prospective PhD students interested in working on analytical political philosophy (particularly projects on freedom, domination, structural injustice, and on socialism, feminism, republicanism), history political thought (particularly post-1700), and post-Kantian philosophy (particularly Hegel and Marx).聽