CELPA Mentoring Scheme
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The goal of the CELPA mentoring scheme is to support early career researchers (ECRs) in developing their research in order to help improve their career development and prospects. Established academics in moral, legal, and political philosophy will provide guidance to ECRs about how to improve a submitted essay to make it more likely to be accepted for publication.
We are primarily focused on academics from groups who are underrepresented in moral, legal, and political philosophy, those without connections to elite institutions, and especially those from the global south. The first round of the scheme will be focused on ECRs in India.
The scheme is not meant to replace or supplant the more comprehensive mentorship that ECRs are already receiving from thesis advisors and other mentors at their home institutions, but to provide discrete but meaningful guidance on a single piece of work. At present, one of the strongest drivers of inequalities in the profession is inequality in access to support and advice about publishing in journals and academic presses. The guidance that ECRs receive in the scheme will benefit them personally and the disciplines of moral, legal, and political philosophy more broadly by encouraging contributions from a diverse group of promising scholars.
Those eligible for the scheme will have completed a PhD or be very close to completion. We normally consider people who are within 5 years of completion of the PhD, but will take into consideration career breaks, for example in the case of people with caring responsibilities. They may, for example, be currently looking for work, on a short term contract, on a teaching-focused contract, on a post-doc, or in the early years of a tenure-track position.
We aim to create a mentoring scheme in moral, legal, and political philosophy.
The scheme aims to support early career researchers (ECRs) in developing their research—particularly toward publication—with the goal of strengthening their career prospects.
In doing so, it seeks not only to benefit individual researchers, but also to enrich the fields of moral, legal, and political philosophy by fostering contributions from a more diverse range of voices.
We recognise that one of the key drivers of inequality in the profession is unequal access to mentorship, support, and guidance. This scheme is designed to help address that gap.
At its core, the scheme is about offering meaningful support to researchers at the early stages of their academic journey.
Use of the scheme by eligible ECRs is completely free. Those who are accepted onto the scheme will be paired with a senior academic from our team. The team will be drawn from senior academics across the globe who are willing to participate.
The ECR will prepare some work for the academic to read, as well as a CV. The work will often be a draft paper, but it might also be a book proposal, or an ECR may just pitch an idea for an essay.
The academic and the ECR will meet online to discuss how to improve the work and its prospects for publication, as well as other opportunities to present the work to help improve it. Each mentor will normally be paired with one ECR per year and will be expected to read and offer feedback on one piece of work of up to 12.000 words. Normally the feedback will be given through an online meeting. Mentors may also provide written comments, career advice, and other support at their discretion.
However, mentees should have no expectation of an ongoing mentoring relationship with their mentor. The scheme aims at offering feedback only on a single piece of work.
Mentors are experienced academics with a publication record in moral, legal, and political philosophy.
Our Mentors
Please find below details or our mentors.
Lucy Allais
Miller Professor of Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Kant, forgiveness, punishment, moral psychology
Paula Casal
Research Professor ICREA
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Research Interests: Distributive Justice, Global Justice, Climate Change, Gender, Animal Ethics, Bioethics.
Garrett Cullity
Professor, Director of Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory
Australian National University
Research Interests: Aesthetics, Climate Change, Cooperation and Public Goods, Moral Epistemology, Moral Psychology, Practical Reasons and Rationality, Virtue Ethics.
Stephen Darwall
Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy
Yale University
Research Interests: Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Contractualism, History of Ethics.
Tom Dougherty
Professor Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Ethics, Consent, Temporal Agency, Consequentialism, Ethical Vagueness, Moral Epistemology.
David Enoch
Professor of Philosophy of Law
University of Oxford.
Research Interests: Metaethics, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Luck, Epistemic Evidence.
Christian Barry
Director, Research School of Social Sciences and Professor of Philosophy
Australian National University
Research Interests: Ethical theory, philosophy of action, and international justice
David Estlund
Lombardo Family Professor of Philosophy
Brown University
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, democratic theory, epistemic democracy, liberalism, structural injustice.
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
Herbert F. Goodrich Professor of Criminal Law and Professor of Philosophy.
University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal Theory, Ethics, Political Philosophy.
Marc Fleurbaey
Robert E. Kuenne Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, and Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values.
Princeton University
Research Interests: Welfare economics, social choice theory, well-being, public economics, climate policy, agroecological transition.
Helen Frowe
Professor of Practical Philosophy, Director, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace.
University of Stockholm
Research Interests: Normative ethics, applied ethics, responsibility, causation, consent, authority.
Sean Ingham
Associate Professor of Political Science.
University of California San Diego
Research Insterests: Political philosophy, democratic theory, political theory.
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Professor, Department of Political Science.
Aarhus University
Research Interests: Political philosophy, discrimination, democracy, ethics.
Erin Kelly
Fletcher Professor of Philosophy.
Tufts University
Research Interests: Moral Philosophy, political philosophy, criminal law, moral responsibility, desert.
Michael McKenna
Professor
The University of Arizona.
Research Interests: Metaphysics, ethics, action theory, philosophical psychology,
free will, moral responsibility.
Japa Pallikkathayil
Associate professor, Philosophy Department.
University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, political philosophy, consent, coercion, deception, exploitation.
Dana Nelkin
Professor of Philosophy
University of California San Diego
Research Interests: Ethics, moral responsibility, omissions, forgiveness, dessert, blame.
Serena Olsaretti
ICREA Research Professor
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Research Interests: Theories of justice, ethics of markets, well-being, libertarianism, desert, egalitarianism
Douglas W. Portmore
Professor of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
Research Interests: Morality, rationality, well-being, moral worth, posthumous harm, moral responsibility.
Jonathan Quong
Professor of Philosophy and Law
The University of Southern California Gould
Research Interests: Political liberalism, public reason, democracy, distributive justice, defensive ethics.
Massimo Renzo
Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy & Law
King’s College London
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, legal philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, international justice, philosophy of criminal law.
Gina Schouten
Professor of Philosophy
Harvard University
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Education.
Mark Schroeder
Professor of Philosophy
University of Southern California
Research Interests: Metaethics, normative ethics, practical reason, epistemology, metaphysics.
Annie Stilz
Kernan Robson Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: History of political thought, nationalism, political obligation, authority, state legitimacy, sovereignty.
Amia Srinivasan
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory
All Souls College, Oxford
Research Interests: Political philosophy, epistemology, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy.
Adam Swift
Professor of Political Philosophy
University College London
Research Interests: Political philosophy, social mobility, social justice, public opinion, educational justice.
Pekka Väyrynen
Professor of Moral Philosophy and Deputy Head of School
University of Leeds
Research Interests: Metaethics; value theory; practical reason; normative ethics.
Daniel Viehoff
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Political philosophy, legal philosophy, political authority, democracy, equality, private law theory.
Andrew Williams
Research Professor ICREA
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, distributive justice, international ethics, intergenerational ethics, climate change, liberalism, political authority.
Fiona Woollard
Professor of philosophy
University of Southampton
Research Interests: Normative ethics, applied ethics, philosophy of pregnancy and motherhood, ethics of autonomous systems, philosophy of sex.
Karam Chadha
Assistant Professor in Legal Theory
Durham University.
Research Interests: Legal theory, ethics, political philosophy, oppression, consent..
R. Jay Wallace
William and Trudy Ausfahl Chair in Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley.
Research Interests: Normative ethics, moral responsibility, moral psychology, ethics, reactive attitudes, moral responsibility, metaethics.
Shiv Swaminathan
Professor and Dean
Shiv Nadar University
Research Interests: Legal philosophy, jurisprudence, contract law, metaethics, moral philosophy.
Sameer Bajaj
Associate Professor
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, applied ethics, epistemology, moral psychology.
Simon Caney
Professor of Political Theory
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Contemporary political philosophy, global poverty, global distributive justice, human rights, democratic theory and climate change.
Matthew Clayton
Professor of Political Theory
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Distributive justice, the foundations of liberalism, philosophy of upbringing, philosophy of education.
Benjamin Ferguson
Professor of philosophy
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, political philosophy, ethics of market-based interactions.
Henrik Kugelberg
Assistant professor
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, political philosophy, artificial intelligence and the digital public sphere.
Andrew Mason
Professor
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Political theory, citizenship, equality of opportunity, theory of justice, appearance, discrimination, multiculturalism.
Christopher Mills
Associate Professor
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, political philosophy, legal philosophy, personal autonomy, choice, consent, promises, coercion.
Fabienne Peter
Professor of philosophy
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Political legitimacy, democracy, theories of justice, political deliberation, experts in politics, political deference, political and moral disagreements.
Adam Slavny
Reader
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Legal theory, political philosophy, moral philosophy, tort Law, normative ethics..
Areti Theofilopoulou
Assistant Professor
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, political philosophy, personal relationships, childrearing, family, public justification, punishment.
Patrick Tomlin
Professor of philosophy
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Ethics, Political Philosophy, distributive ethics, equality, criminal law, punishment, children and the family, the ethics of war and self-defence.
Victor Tadros
Professor
University of Warwick
Research Interests: Criminal law, terrorism law, philosophy of criminal law, ethics, just war theory.
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For questions or further information, please contact mentoring_scheme@warwick.ac.uk