James Tully (philosopher)

James Hamilton Tully (* April 17, 1946 ) is a Canadian political scientist. His main topics are political philosophy, history of ideas, philosophy of law and the tension between liberal democracy and multiculturalism, where he dealt particularly with First Nations.

Life

James Tully earned his B. A. 1974 in History at the University of British Columbia and received his PhD in 1977 in political philosophy at the University of Cambridge. From 1977 to 1996 he taught Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University on the topic John Locke's theory of property in its intellectual context. At this time he was also consultant to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. From 1996 to 2001 he was a professor at the University of Victoria political science, law, philosophy and Indigenous Politics, 2001-2003 at the University of Toronto and since 2003 at the University of Victoria.

Tully publishes the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke, and is also editor of the book series Ideas in Context ( Cambridge University Press ) and the journal Political Theory. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Trudeau Foundation.

In 2010 he was awarded the Killam Prize.

Writings

  • The Unfreedom of the Moderns in relation to constitutional democracy, Modern Law Review (March 2002),
  • Political Philosophy as a Critical Activity ', Political Theory ( August 2002),
  • Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in at age of diversity Cambridge:. . Cambridge University Press, September 1995 Reprinted 1997, 1999, 2001 ( French edition 1999)
  • An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in contexts. (1993).
  • A Discourse on Property: John Locke and his Adversaries, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1980, second edition, 1982 ( French edition: John Locke Droit naturel et liberte, PUF, Paris 1991. )

As editor

  • John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, reprint 1985, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001.
  • Quentin Skinner and his critics, Cambridge: Polity Press and Princeton University Press, 1988 and 1989, Japanese edition 1990 Korean 1996 edition, Chinese edition 2005..
  • Samuel Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen accor ding to Natural Law, tr Michael Silverthorne, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge:. Cambridge University Press, 1991, Japanese edition 2003.
  • Philosophy in at age of pluralism: the philosophy of Charles Taylor in question, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • With Alain -G. Gagnon: Multinational Democracies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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