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Edmund Tweedy Flanigan

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, LMU Munich

e.flanigan@lmu.de
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About Me

I am an assistant professor (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) at the Chair for Philosophy and Political Theory, in the Faculty of Philosophy, at LMU Munich.

My research focuses on the political ethics of the oppressed and on the morality of violent and non-violent resistance.

I hold a Ph.D. in political theory from Harvard University, where I was a graduate fellow of the Center for Ethics and an inaugural awardee of the Government Department's Sidney Verba Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. I also hold an M.Phil. in political theory from the University of Oxford and an A.B. in philosophy from Georgetown University.

I go by my middle name, Tweedy.

Curriculum Vitae [txt]
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Published Papers

Why Riot? An Expressive Theory of the Justification of Rioting (2023)
From self-defense to political violence (2023)
Futile resistance as protest (2023)
Do we have reasons to obey the law? (2020)
The small improvement argument, epistemicism, and incomparability (2018)

Other Writing

Case study: disobedient protest and the global climate movement (2025)
On discount rates in the cost-benefit analysis of climate change (2011)

Elsewhere

Google Scholar Profile [www]
PhilPeople Profile [www]
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This site on the world wide web