David Enoch is Professor of Philosophy and of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Oxford. He works in moral, political, and legal philosophy.
Daniel Attas is Ahad Ha’am Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophy Department and PPE Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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He works in Moral and Political Philosophy and in Normative Political Economy. He is currently working on the notions of wellbeing and of respect for persons and how these might inform justifications of political and economic institutions.
Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis studies the normative political theory of liberal democratic insitutions. His current book project examines the domestic role of the military in democratic life especially at periods of assault on liberal democracy.
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Avishay also works on empirical questions surrounding the coercive and security insitutions of liberal democratic states and serves as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
I work on a number of topics in moral and political philosophy, including rights, blame, respect, dignity, normative powers, and relational normativity.
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A leading idea in my work is that we have reasons of respect to treat people in ways that recognize the existence and importance of their genuine obligations, as these obligations reflect the importance of those who possess them. My work with Liberalism Rekindled will focus on developing a conception of dignity that makes sense of these claims, and exploring how liberalism can accommodate the idea that respect for someone’s dignity involves taking their obligations seriously. Since many of our obligations arise in the context of special relationships and communal ties, this work aligns with the project’s Liberalism and Identity track.
I mainly work on political philosophy at the intersections of epistemology, religion, and feminist philosophy.
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I wrote my dissertation on the role of religious reasoning in liberal democracies, and argued in favour of the inclusion of such reasoning in ways that are compatible with a Rawlsian approach to political liberalism. More recently, I've been interested in how citizens can better know and understand one another. I thus aim to 'rekindle liberalism' by focusing on how liberal democracies in particular can preserve a kind of relational knowledge of persons, from the second-person perspective, and better than alternative forms of government. This challenges assumptions about the supposedly important role of propositional knowledge in democracies, and more generally calls into question what it means for citizens to be 'informed'. Instead of focusing on propositional knowledge, I ask what kinds of distinctly relational knowledge citizens might need of one another to be capable of relating to one another as equals. I also ask how citizens can have more of this knowledge-- namely, how citizens can know more citizens and know them as persons-- in a way that is compatible with their individual autonomy, and in a way that encourages civic friendship
I'ma philosopher working mainly in philosophy of action and ethics, especially in business ethics and AI ethics. I have further interests inpolitical philosophy, early modern philosophy, and the philosophy ofmind.
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During my time with the Liberalism Rekindled project, I will be workingonthe nature of consent in non-ideal settings, and how imperfect consentmay still be valid. In particular, I am interested in how background, institutional, autonomy-protecting norms can render imperfectly informed consent valid in different contexts.
Jake joined the Liberalism Rekindled Project in the summer of 2024, after completing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at New York University, and long after completing a Ph.D. in Politics (Political Theory) at Princeton University.
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His dissertation at NYU examined the nature and moral significance of social status and social hierarchy, while his dissertation at Princeton argued that democratic participation can constitute a genuine form of autonomy; the core ideas from the latter were subsequently published as “The Possibility of Democratic Autonomy” (Philosophy and Public Affairs, 2022; co-authored with Adam Lovett). He has also published (with Jake Nebel and Cian Dorr) on comparability and incomparability in ethics, epistemology, and elsewhere. While with the Liberalism Rekindled project, he plans to work on the relation between liberal principles and democratic institutions under realistic conditions, and on the moral significance of power relations.
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