Senior Research Fellow

Contact: a.haworth(at)global-policy.com

Expertise: Alan Haworth is a political philosopher. He was educated at the University of Keele and, as a postgraduate, at London University (Birkbeck and University College). Throughout his lecturing career he was  based mainly at London Metropolitan University (including it's predecessors), first in the philosophy section of the Faculty of Humanities and subsequently in the Department of Law, Governance, and International Relations. As a teacher, he developed and taught courses in Ethics, Contemporary Political Philosophy, and the History of Political Philosophy. He is now a Senior Fellow of the Global Policy Institute.

Publications:

Alan Haworth is the author of Anti-Libertarianism: Markets Philosophy and Myth (Routledge 1994), Free Speech (Routledge 1998), and Understanding the Political Philosophers: from Ancient to Modern Times (Routledge 2004). He regularly contributes scholarly articles to a number of academic journals. He has also contributed, quite frequently, to The Philosophers' Magazine and made the occasional foray into journalism, most recently in The Independent. He is an editorial advisor to the journal, Res Publica.

His current project is a study of the philosophical foundations of political liberalism, with particular reference to liberalism's place within a globalised world. It's provisional title is, The Public Sphere and the Global Order.

Dr Haworth welcomes enquiries from prospective Ph.D. students.