Dr. Andrew Lister

Biography

Andrew Lister is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. He holds a PhD from UCLA, and both an MA and BA from McGill University. Lister specializes in contemporary normative political theory, especially concerning democracy and distributive justice. His research explores key themes such as public reason, political neutrality, and egalitarianism, while examining the works of philosophers like John Rawls, David Hume, and Friedrich Hayek. He has previously taught at Concordia University and has held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Montreal's Centre de recherche en éthique. Lister has been a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of Social Justice and at UCLouvain's Chaire Hoover in economic and social ethics. His recent publications include works on distributive justice and political theory, focusing on the insights of reciprocity and the critiques of classical liberalism.

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