Mathias Thaler is Chancellor’s Fellow in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interest is in contemporary political theory. He is currently working on a judgment-based approach to understanding, critiquing and reforming notions of political violence. This project has been supported by a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2013-2017). Thaler’s recent publications have appeared in Analyse & Kritik, Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, European Journal of Political Theory,  Philosophy & Social Criticism and Political Studies. He is the author of Moralische Politik oder politische Moral? Eine Analyse aktueller Debatten zur internationalen Gerechtigkeit (Campus, 2008), and co-editor (with Mihaela Mihai) of On The Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (Palgrave 2014).

 

Location

Edinburgh, UK

Disciplines

• Philosophy
• Political Science

Affiliation

Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh

Website

https://mthaler.wordpress.com/