English philosopher (1936–2009)
Brian Barry , FBA (7 August 1936 – 10 March 2009) was a moral and political philosopher . He was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford , obtaining the degrees of B.A. and D.Phil. under the direction of H. L. A. Hart .
Along with David Braybrooke , Richard E. Flathman , Felix Oppenheim, and Abraham Kaplan , he is widely credited with having fused analytic philosophy and political science .[citation needed ] Barry also fused political theory and social choice theory and was a persistent critic of public choice theory .
Life
During his early career, Barry held teaching posts at the University of Birmingham , Keele University and the University of Southampton . In 1965 he was appointed a teaching fellow at University College, Oxford and then Nuffield College . In 1969 he became a professor at Essex University .[1]
Barry was Lieber Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at Columbia University and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the London School of Economics . He was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2001. Barry also taught at the University of Chicago , in the departments of philosophy and political science. During this time he edited the journal Ethics , helping raise its publication standards.[2] Under his editorship, it became perhaps the leading journal for moral and political philosophy.[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.[4] Barry was a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association , and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of York in 2006.[5]
In 2014, the British Academy, in partnership with Cambridge University Press and the British Journal of Political Science , founded an annual prize in political science in his honour: the Brian Barry Prize in Political Science .[6]
Selected publications
Why Social Justice Matters (Polity 2005)
Culture & Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism (2001)
Justice as Impartiality (1995)
Liberty and Justice: Essays in Political Theory (1991)
Theories of Justice (Berkeley, 1989)
Democracy, Power, and Justice: Essays in Political Theory (Oxford, 1989)
The Liberal Theory of Justice (1973)
Sociologists, Economists and Democracy (1970)
Political Argument (1965, Reissue 1990)
Further reading
Justice & Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry , edited by Keith Dowding, Robert E. Goodin, and Carole Pateman (2004)
Multiculturalism Reconsidered: 'Culture and Equality' and Its Critics , edited by Paul Kelly (2002)
Impartiality, Neutrality and Justice: Re-Reading Brian Barry's 'Justice as Impartiality', edited by Paul Kelly (2001)
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