Jeffrey Flynn

Department of Philosophy
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 817-3319
jeflynn@fordham.edu

Education

• Northwestern University, Ph.D., Philosophy, 2006
• Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, DAAD Fellowship, 2002-2003
• Syracuse University, Graduate Studies in Philosophy, 1997-1998
• University of Notre Dame, B.A., Philosophy and Anthropology, 1995

Dissertation

Human Rights and Cultural Diversity: Rawls, Taylor, Habermas
Committee: Thomas McCarthy (Chair), Robert Gooding-Williams, Derrick Darby

Academic Positions

2007 – present, Assistant Professor, Fordham University
2006 – 2007, Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
2005 – 2006, Instructor, Middlebury College
2004 – 2005, Visiting Instructor, Middlebury College

Articles

1. “Communicative Power in Habermas’s Theory of Democracy,” European Journal of Political Theory 3:4 (2004).
2. “Habermas on Human Rights: Law, Morality, & Intercultural Dialogue,” Social Theory & Practice: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Philosophy 29:3 (2003).

Other Publications

1. “Introduction: The Globalization of Democratic Solidarity,” and guest editor, “Special Section: Hauke Brunkhorst’s Solidarity,” Philosophy & Social Criticism 32:7 (2006).
2. “Introduction,” Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community by Hauke Brunkhorst (MIT Press, 2005), vii-xxi.
3. Book note, Toleration, Diversity, and Global Justice, Kok-Chor Tan, Ethics 13:1 (2002).

Translations from German

1. Hauke Brunkhorst, Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community (MIT Press, 2005).
2. Jürgen Habermas, “Equal Treatment of Cultures and the Limits of Postmodern Liberalism,” The Journal of Political Philosophy 13: 1 (March 2005).

Fellowships

1. Salzburg Seminar Presidential Fellow, “An International Rule of Law: Balancing Security, Democracy, & Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism,” Salzburg, Austria, Sept. 1-6, 2007.
2. NEH Summer Institute Grant, “Human Rights in Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” CUNY Graduate Center, June 24-July 28, 2006.
3. Blaine J. Yarrington Fellow, The Graduate School, Northwestern University, 2003-2004.
4. DAAD Fellow, German Academic Exchange Service, 2002-2003.

Presentations and Panels

1. Commentary on Charles Kelbley’s “Public Reason, Socratic Conversion, and Religion,” Inaugural Lecture, Fordham University, September 25, 2007.
2. “Engaging Non-Western Perspectives on Human Rights: The Rawls-Habermas Debate Continued,” Philosophy and Social Sciences Conference, Prague, May 10-14, 2007.
3. 15th Annual Critical Theory Roundtable, St. Louis, October 20-21, 2007.
4. “Allocating Duties and Creating Solidarity: Beyond Cross-cultural Dialogue on Human Rights,” NEH Summer Institute, “Human Rights in Conflict,” New York, July 27, 2006.
5. “Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Solidarity,” Philosophy and Social Sciences Conference, Prague, May 18-21, 2006.
6. Invited Participant, “Rethinking Human Rights: Multiple Foundations and Intercultural Dialogue,” 3rd Berlin Roundtable on Transnationality: Reframing Human Rights, Berlin, October 4-6, 2005.
7. Organized and Chaired “Author Meets Critics” Panel: Hauke Brunkhorst’s Solidarity, 12th Annual Critical Theory Roundtable, Concordia University, Montreal, October 16, 2004.
8. “Toward Human Rights as a Basis for Transnational Solidarity,” American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 4, 2004.
9. “Human Rights in Conflict: Dialogue and Consensus in a Multicultural Context,” Middlebury College, April 6, 2004.
10. “Human Rights and Philosophy: Should Philosophers Provide Foundations for Human Rights?,” Student Session, XXIst World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy Facing World Problems, Istanbul, Turkey, August 12, 2003.
11. “Universal Norms, Multiple Foundations, and Alternative Legal Forms: Charles Taylor’s Proposal for a Global Consensus on Human Rights,” Research Colloquium in Social Philosophy, Goethe Universität-Frankfurt, Germany, June 12, 2003.
12. “Toward New Foundations for Human Rights: Political, Pluralist, or Post-Metaphysical?,” 2nd International Conference on Human Rights: Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights, Mofid University - Qom, Iran, May 17, 2003.
13. “Habermas on Human Rights: Law, Morality, and Cross-cultural Dialogue,” 9th Annual Critical Theory Roundtable, California State University, Hayward, October 27, 2001.