Ian Carter

Biographical - Research - Publications Postal address: Department of Political and Social Studies, University of Pavia, Corso Strada Nuova 65, 27100 Pavia, Italy

Biographical

Ian Carter studied philosophy and politics in England at the Universities of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (B.A.) and Manchester (M.A.), and in Italy at the European University Institute in Florence (PhD.). During 1992-3 he was Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester. Since 1993, he has been a member of the Department of Political and Social Studies at the University of Pavia, where he is currently Associate Professor in Political Philosophy. In 2003, he was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

He is a member of the editorial boards of Economics and Philosophy, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, Notizie di Politeia, Il Politico and Quaderni di Scienza Politica.

Research

Carter's research has concentrated on fundamental normative concepts in contemporary political philosophy, in particular freedom, rights and equality. In 1999 he published A Measure of Freedom (Oxford University Press), which investigated the problems involved in evaluating and measuring social freedom. His work on rights has concentrated on controversies regarding the choice theory and the interest theory of rights, on the logical structure of rights and on the relation between freedom and private property, while his work on equality has included critiques of freedom-based answers to the question "equality of what?", including that of the so-called "capability approach", and the defence of an alternative freedom-based approach that builds on the theses defended in A Measure of Freedom. These last lines of research are presented in the Italian monograph La libertà eguale (Feltrinelli, 2005) and in some of his more recent articles.

His current research concerns the idea of equal respect. In particular, it examines the relation between respect and the basis of equality, the implications of equal respect for distributive justice, and the role of respect in interpreting the principles of equal opportunity and equal freedom.

Publications

Books:

A Measure of Freedom
(OUP 1999)
La libertà eguale
(Feltrinelli 2005)

Edited books:

Hillel Steiner and the
Anatomy of Justice
(Routledge 2009) with S.
de Wijze and M.H. Kramer

Eguale rispetto
(B. Mondadori 2008) with
A.E. Galeotti and V. Ottonelli

Freedom: a Philosophical Anthology
(Blackwell 2007) with
M.H. Kramer and H. Steiner

Freedom, Power and
Political Morality
(Palgrave 2001)
with M. Ricciardi
L'idea di eguaglianza
(Feltrinelli 2001)
L'idea di libertà
(Feltrinelli 1996)
with M. Ricciardi

Edited Journal Symposia:

Libertà e scelta
(Filosofia e questioni pubbli-
che 2003) with C. Del Bò
Functionings and Capabilities
(Notizie di Politeia 1996) with A. Balestrino

Articles:

"Respect for Persons and the Interest in Freedom", in I. Carter, S. A. de Wijze and M. H. Kramer (eds), Hillel Steiner and The Anatomy of Justice (Routledge, New York, 2009).

"Introduction", in I. Carter, S. A. de Wijze and M. H. Kramer (eds), Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice (Routledge, New York, 2009).

"Liberalism and Positive Freedom" (in Chinese). Preface to Li Shi, Paradoxes of Positive Freedom (in Chinese), Commercial Press of China, 2009.

"The Development of Capability Indicators", Journal of Human Development, 10 (2009), pp. 125-52. Authored with Paul Anand, Graham Hunter, Keith Dowding, Francesco Guala e Martin van Hees.

"How Changes in One’s Preferences can Affect One’s Freedom (and How They Cannot). A Reply to Dowding and van Hees", Economics and Philosophy, 24 (2008), pp. 81-96. Authored with Matthew H. Kramer.

"How Are Power and Unfreedom Related?", in C. Laborde and J. Maynor (eds), Republicanism and Political Theory (Blackwell, Oxford 2008), pp. 58-82.

"Il rispetto e le basi dell’eguaglianza", in I. Carter, A. E. Galeotti and V. Ottonelli (eds), Eguale rispetto (Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2008), pp. 54-77.

"Introduzione", in I. Carter, A. E. Galeotti and V. Ottonelli (eds), Eguale rispetto (Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2008), pp. 13-27. Authored with A. E. Galeotti and V. Ottonelli.

"I diritti umani e la superiorità morale del liberalismo", in F. Sciacca (ed), Struttura e senso dei diritti. L'Europa tra identità e giustizia politica (Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2008), pp. 40-52.

"Social Power and Negative Freedom", Homo Oeconomicus, 24 (2) (2007), pp. 187-229.

"Due concetti di garanzia", Diritti umani e diritto internazionale, 1 (2) (2007), pp. 449-65.

"Eguale libertà come principio storico e come principio a stato finale", in G. Pellegrino e I. Salvatore (a cura di), Identità personale, libertà e realismo morale. Studi in onore di Robert Nozick (Luiss University Press, Roma 2007).

"Gli scopi dell'esistenza e il Mill di Isaiah Berlin", Rivista elettronica della Società Italiana di Filosofia Politica (www.sifp.it).

"Replica a Besussi, Salvati e Somaini", Notizie di Politeia, vol. 79 (2005), pp. 65-78.

"Verità e potere in Williams e Lukes", in S. Borutti and L. Fonnesu (eds), La verità (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005), pp. 177-92.

"Il rapporto tra potere e libertà: un’analisi", in G. Fedel (ed.), Studi in onore di Mario Stoppino (1935-2001) (Milan: Giuffré, 2005), pp. 267-305.

"Choice, Freedom and Freedom of Choice", Social Choice and Welfare, 22 (2004), pp. 61-81. Italian version: "Scelta, libertà e libertà di scelta", in Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, 8 (2003), pp. 27-49.

"L’incommensurabilità dei valori e il diritto alla libertà", in E. Bardone and E. Rossi (eds), Oltre le culture. Valori e contesti nella comunicazione interculturale (Como: Ibis, 2004), pp. 83-102.

"Politica estera, necessità pratica e necessità strumentale", Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 10 (1) (2003), pp. 59-73.

"Freedom", in R. Bellamy e A. Mason (eds), Political Theory and the Concept of Politics (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 4-15.

"Sul problema dell’egualitario ricco", Iride, 14 (34) (2001), pp. 609-16.

"‘Ought’ implies ‘Practical Possibility’", in I. Carter e M. Ricciardi (eds), Freedom, Power and Political Morality. Essays For Felix Oppenheim (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), pp. 79-95.

"Funzionamenti e capacità: una critica liberale a Sen e Nussbaum", Rivista di Filosofia, 92 (1) (2001), pp. 49-70.

"Il diritto alla libertà", in L. Lippolis (ed.), La dichiarazione universale dei diritti dell’uomo verso il duemila (Naples: ESI, 2001), pp. 93-106.

"È possibile rendere una società più libera?", in S. Borutti (ed.), Le parole dell'etica. Ricognizione su comunità, democrazia, giustizia, libertà, responsabilità, umanità (Milan: Mimesis, 2000).

"A Critique of Freedom as Non-Domination", The Good Society, 9 (3) (2000), pp. 43-46. Tans. Ital., "Una critica della libertà come non-dominio", Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, 6 (2) (2001), pp. 203-10.

"Freedom and its Specificity. A Reply", Notizie di Politeia, 57 (2000), pp. 35-44.

"Can Enlightenment Morality be Justified Teleologically?", in N. Geras and R. Wokler (eds), Enlightenment and Modernity (Macmillan, London, 1999), pp. 80-99.

"Commentary on Wolff and Petersmann", in A. Qureshi, G. Parry and H. Steiner (eds), Legal and Moral Aspects of International Trade (London: Routledge, 1998).

"The Concept of Freedom in the Work of Amartya Sen: an Alternative Analysis Consistent with Freedom's Independent Value", Notizie di Politeia, nn. 43/44 (1996), pp. 7-22.

"Una replica", Quaderni di Scienza Politica, II, 3 (1995), pp. 462-67.

"Come aggregare i diversi parametri della libertà: una critica a Oppenheim", Quaderni di Scienza Politica, II, 3 (1995), pp. 437-54.

"La giustificazione liberale dei diritti delle minoranze", Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, I, 1 (1995), pp. 130-38.

"The Independent Value of Freedom", Ethics, CV, 4 (1995), pp. 819 - 45. Chinese translation in Liu Xun Lian (ed), Post-Berlinian Conceptions of Liberty (Nanjing: JiangSu People's Press, 2006).

"Interpersonal Comparisons of Freedom", Economics and Philosophy, XI, 1 (1995), pp. 1 - 23.

"La misurazione della libertà: una prospettiva normativa", Quaderni di Scienza Politica, I, 3 (1994), pp. 489 - 511.

"The Measurement of Pure Negative Freedom", Political Studies, XL, 1 (1992), pp. 38 - 50.

"Is Analytical Action Theory Reductionist?" Analyse & Kritik, XIII, 1 (1991), pp. 61 - 66.

Survey articles and introductory works:

"Eguaglianza e libertà", in A. Coliva (ed), Filosofia analitica. Temi e problemi (Carocci, Rome, 2006).

"Filosofia politica", in L. Floridi (ed), Linea di Ricerca, 2006, ebook in Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia (SWIF).

"Postive and Negative Liberty", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2003.

"The Concept of Freedom. Part I: Background, Methodology, and the 'Positive-Negative' Debate", Humane Studies Review, autumn 1996. Chinese translation of updated version in Liu Xun Lian (ed), Post-Berlinian Conceptions of Liberty (Nanjing: JiangSu People's Press, 2006).

"The Concept of Freedom. Part II: Classical Liberalism and Contemporary Debates", Humane Studies Review, winter 1996. Chinese translation of updated version in Liu Xun Lian (ed), Post-Berlinian Conceptions of Liberty (Nanjing: JiangSu People's Press, 2006).

Reviews:

Matthew H. Kramer, The Quality of Freedom, in “Philosophical Review”, 114 (4), 2005, pp. 551-53.

Michael Otsuka, Libertarianism without Inequality, in "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews", September 2004.

Colin Bird, The Myth of Liberal Individualism, and David Weissman, A Social Ontology, in The Times Literary Supplement, 3 August 2001.

Randy E. Barnett, The Structure of Liberty, in European Journal of Philosophy, 9 (1) (2001), pp. 105-8.

Antonella Besussi, Giustizia e comunità. Saggio sulla filosofia politica contemporanea, in Dialectica, 52 (2) (1998), pp. 161-64.

Christine Swanton, Freedom. A Coherence Theory, in Sociologia del Diritto, 22 (1995), pp. 193-95.

Interviews:

"Reddito di base e giustizia libertaria. Conversazione con Philippe Van Parijs", Notizie di Politeia, nn. 39/40 (1995), pp. 24-29.


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