Fabienne Peter

Research interests

I specialize in political philosophy and in issues at the intersection of economics and philosophy. My primary research interest at the moment is political legitimacy. Other main research interests are democracy, justice, and practical reason. I have also written on public health ethics, focusing on the relationship between social justice and health inequalities.

Current teaching

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Philosophy of Social Science

Selected publications

Books

Democratic Legitimacy. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Rationality and Commitment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (co-editor; with Hans Bernhard Schmid).
Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 (co-editor; with Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen).

Papers

"Rules, Norms, Commitments". In: Ian Jarvie and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (eds.) Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science. London: Sage, forthcoming 2009 (with Kai Spiekermann).
'Rawlsian Justice.' In Paul Anand et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
"Democratic Legitimacy without Collective Rationality." In B. de Bruin and C. F. Zurn (eds) New Waves in Political Philosophy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
"Pure Epistemic Proceduralism." Episteme 5(1): 33 - 55, 2008 (special issue on epistemic democracy, guest-edited by David Estlund).
'Democratic Legitimacy and Proceduralist Social Epistemology.' Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 6(3), 2007: 329 - 353.
'The Political Egalitarian's Dilemma.' Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10(4), 2007: 373 - 387.
'Rawls' Idea of Public Reason and Democratic Legitimacy.' Politics and Ethics Review 3(1), 2007: 129 - 143.
'Justice: Political, not Natural.' Analyse und Kritik 28(1), 2006: 382 – 397.
'Choice, Consent, and the Legitimacy of Market Transactions.' Economics and Philosophy 20(1), 2004: 1-18.
'Gender and the Foundations of Social Choice: The Role of Situated Agency.' Feminist Economics 9(2), 2003: 13-32.
'Rawlsian Justice, Legitimacy, and Deliberative Social Evaluation.' Revue de Philosophie Economique 4 2001: 23-50.
'Health Equity and Social Justice.' Journal of Applied Philosophy 18(2), 2001: 159-170. Reprinted in Anand, Peter, and Sen (eds.) Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 93-106.
'Ethical Dimensions of Health Equity.' In Timothy Evans, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya and Meg Wirth (eds.) Challenging Inequities in Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: pp. 25-33 (with Timothy Evans). Spanish translation: "Dimensiones Eticas de la Equidad en Salud." In Evans et. al (eds.) Desafío a la Falta de Equidad en Salud. PAHO, 2002: 27 - 35.