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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 in early modern moral and political philosophy, contemporary theories of rights and property, and international legal and political philosophy (the ethics of war, human rights, global justice, and the ethics of migration).

  • Publications

    2021

    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (Accepted/In press). Hobbes on international ethics. In M. Adams (Ed.), A Companion to Hobbes (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy). Wiley-Blackwell.
    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (Accepted/In press). The right to wage private wars of subsistence: its nature, grounds, and place in revisionist just war theories. In E. Herlin-Karnell , & E. Rossi (Eds.), The Public Uses of Coercion and Force: From Constitutionalism to War Oxford University Press.

    2020

    • Douglass, R., & Olsthoorn, J. (Eds.) (2020). Hobbes’s On the Citizen: A Critical Guide. (Cambridge Critical Guides). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [details]
    • 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). Leviathan Inc.: Hobbes on the nature and person of the state. History of European Ideas. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2020.1779466
    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A. (2020). On the absence of moral goodness in Hobbes’s ethics. The Journal of Ethics, 24(2), 241-266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-020-09324-4
    • Olsthoorn, J. C. A., & van Apeldoorn, L. (2020). '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

    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), 21-41.

    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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