Todd Hedrick is a professor and social/political philosopher. He earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

 in 2006 and currently teaches courses on philosophy of law, critical social theory, political philosophy, and 19th and 20th century European philosophy at Michigan State University.

Contributions to Philosophy

Hedrick's work focuses on contemporary social/political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and critical social theory.

Professional Publications

He is the author of several peer-reviewed publications including "Constitutionalization and Democratization: Habermas on Postnational Governance," "Race, Difference, and Anthropology in Kant's Cosmopolitanism," and the book Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy.

Awards and Distinctions

Hedrick was awarded several grants and fellowships including a Graduate Research Grant from the Mellon Foundation and a DAAD Summer Fellowship from the Kaplan Center for the Humanities.

Selected Works

Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy. Stanford University Press (2010).

"Democratic Constitutionalism as Mediation: The Decline and Recovery of an Idea in Critical Social Theory," Constellations, forthcoming.

"Coping with Constitutional Indeterminacy: Rawls and Habermas," Philosophy and Social Criticism 36, no. 2 (2010): 183-208.

"Race, Difference, and Anthropology in Kant's Cosmopolitanism," Journal of the History of Philosophy 46, no. 2 (2008): 245-68.

"Constitutionalization and Democratization: Habermas on Postnational Governance," Social Theory and Practice 33, no. 3 (2007): 387-410.

See also

American Philosophy

American Philosophers