Robert E. "Bob" Goodin (born 30 November 1950)
was Professor of Government at the
University of Essex
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and is now Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political Theory at the
Australian National University
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Biography
Goodin attended
Oxford University
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, where he earned a DPhil in politics in 1975.
He is a Fellow of the
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Corresponding Fellow of the
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...
. In 2009 he won the
Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, awarded by the
International Social Science Council.
He is the founding editor of ''
The Journal of Political Philosophy''
and a co-editor of the ''
British Journal of Political Science''.
In 2022, Goodin was awarded the prestigious
Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for his "acuity and success endeavored to blend political philosophy with empirical political science to increase the understanding of how decent and dignified societies can be shaped.”
Selected bibliography
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External links
Profile page: Bob Goodin School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
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1950 births
Academics of the University of Essex
Alumni of the University of Oxford
21st-century American philosophers
20th-century American philosophers
Academic staff of the Australian National University
Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
Winners of the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research
Living people
American philosophy academics