Dr. Mark Evans
MA D.Phil (Oxon.)
Senior Lecturer in Politics

Office: 014
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Phone: 5782

Career Biography
Mark joined the Department in 1996. He specialises in contemporary moral and political phi-losophy, with particular reference to liberalism in domestic and international contexts.

Research
Mark is the editor of the Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism (2001), Ethical Theory in The Study of International Politics (2004) and Just War Theory: A Reappraisal (2005), and numerous articles and chapters in scholarly journals and volumes. He is currently completing a monograph on an analytic-philosophical articulation and critical defence of just war theory. In developing this particular research interest he is also working on the pragmat-ics of moral and political criticism in discourse; the concept of a thin-universalist morality; ‘world citizenship’, imperfect obligations and the ethics of individual responsibility; and the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory. He has also worked on the ethics of personal virtue and flourishing in liberal political theory and practice. He is Associate Editor of the new Politics and Ethics Review, whose inaugural conference he helped to organise at the University of Southern Mississippi (Gulf Park) in March 2005.

Teaching
Mark teaches courses in modern political theory and the history of political ideas. These in-clude the Level 1 module How Should We Be Governed? and the Level 2 module Democ-racy and Citizenship. He also teaches Political Philosophy modules at the MA level.