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dr. J.C.A. (Johan) Olsthoorn

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Challenges to Democratic Representation
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  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
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  • About

    I'm an assistant professor in political theory (UD1) at the University of Amsterdam, Dept. of Political Science, and a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation (FWO)-Flanders at KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy (2015-2021). Prior to this, I was a fellow in political theory at LSE, Department of Government (2014-15). My PhD is in philosophy, from the KU Leuven (2014). My research specialisms are early modern moral and political philosophy, contemporary theories of rights and property, and international political theory (the ethics of war, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of migration).

  • Publications

    2020

    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (2020). Francisco Suárez and Hugo Grotius on distributive justice and imperfect rights. History of Political Thought, 41(1), 96-119.
    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (2020). On the absence of moral goodness in Hobbes’s ethics. The Journal of Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-020-09324-4
    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A., & van Apeldoorn, L. (Accepted/In press). This Man is my Property’: Slavery and Political Absolutism in Locke and the Classical Social Contract Tradition. European Journal of Political Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885120911309

    2019

    • Olsthoorn, J. (2019). Grotius on natural law and supererogation. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 57(3), 443-469. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2019.0054 [details]
    • Olsthoorn, J. (2019). Mondiale rechtvaardigheid afdwingen: Oorlog, noodzaak, en verzetsrechten van ’s werelds misdeelden. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 111(1), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2019.1.004.OLST [details]
    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (2019). Grotius and Pufendorf. In T. Angier (Ed.), Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics (pp. 51-70). (Cambridge Companions). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525077.004
    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (2019). Self-ownership and Despotism: Locke on property in the person, divine dominium of human life, and rights-forfeiture. Social Philosophy and Policy, 36(2), 242-263. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052519000438
    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A., & Douglass, R. (Eds.) (2019). Hobbes’s On the Citizen: A Critical Guide. (Cambridge Critical Guides). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    2018

    • Olsthoorn, J. (2018). Grotius and the Early Modern Tradition. In L. May (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Just War (pp. 33-56). (Cambridge Handbooks in Philosophy). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316591307.004 [details]
    • Olsthoorn, J. (2018). The Theocratic Leviathan: Hobbes’s Arguments for the Identity of Church and State. In L. van Apeldoorn, & R. Douglass (Eds.), Hobbes on Politics and Religion (pp. 10-28). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803409.003.0002 [details]
    • Olsthoorn, J. (2018). Two Ways of Theorizing ‘Collective Ownership of the Earth’. In J. Penner, & M. Otsuka (Eds.), Property Theory: Legal and Political Perspectives (pp. 187-214). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108500043.010 [details]

    2017

    2016

    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (2016). Spinoza on human and divine justice. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 33(1), 21.

    2015

    • Olsthoorn, J. (2015). Hobbes on Justice, Property Rights and Self-Ownership. History of Political Thought, 36(3), 471-498.
    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (2015). Why justice and injustice have no place outside the Hobbesian state. European Journal of Political Theory, 14(1), 19-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885113514709

    2014

    2013

    2016

    • van Apeldoorn, L., Maas, H., & Olsthoorn, J. (2016). Science, politics, and the economy: The unintended consequences of a diabolic paradox (editorial). Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 9(1), iii-viii. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v9i1.208

    2014

    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (2014). Forfeiting citizenship: Hobbes on traitors, rebels, and enemies. In P. M. Kitromilides (Ed.), Athenian Legacies: European Debates on Citizenship (pp. 237-252). Firenze: Leo S. Olschki.
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