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.
Marius joined the project in fall 2025, after having been the academic director of the Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice at LMU Munich since 2021.
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In his dissertation and a number of subsequent articles, he has developed and defended the idea of moral underdetermination. HIs work at that time was mainly at the intersection of normative ethics, metaethics, and the philosophy of science. During his time with the liberalism rekindled project, he will be working on a new project that focuses on the role of merit and desert in the liberal democratic framework. Pace the majority view in contemporary (liberal) philosophy, he argues that the notions of merit and desert provide distinct normative resources in support of the justification of liberal democracies.
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 various topics in political philosophy, including territorial authority, state and citizen obligations, and political legitimacy.
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My dissertation focused on the relationship between territorial authority and political legitimacy. In continuing my work on territory, I am interested in how disaggregating state power may be a more legitimate method of dealing with global issues such as climate change and migration. My work with Liberalism Rekindled will take up two different threads. First, I’m interested in exploring the role of children in a liberal democracy. When ought children be included in democratic deliberation? How ought we teach liberalism to future citizens while not undermining it? Who should represent the interests of children to the state prior to the age of maturity? Second, following my interests in political legitimacy, I'm interested in exploring various aspects of non-state political arrangements that may in fact preserve political legitimacy better than the state while maintaining liberal values.
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 do political philosophy. I also do a bit of ethics.
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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 broadly 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 make use of and give expression to our second-personal knowledge and understanding of other persons. I'm also developing two other projects. The first concerns the ethics of proselytizing, and asks whether proselytizing is always bad, and if not, what makes it permissible. The second concerns sentimentalizing other people, and similarly asks whether anything good can be said of it.
I am a philosopher working on issues in social and political philosophy.
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I recently completed my Ph.D. in philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Karl Schafer. My dissertation developed a picture of fragmented agency through careful attention to oppression, ideology, and psychologies of oppression. Specifically, I defend novel accounts of group agency, ideology, false consciousness and DuBois’s double consciousness. While with the Liberalism Rekindled project, I plan to work on the relationship between engineered consent and autonomy, as well as on how non-ideal social conditions relate to our theories of individual agency and autonomy.
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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