Eric MacGilvray

• Political Theory

Professor MacGilvray has research and teaching interests which center in modern and contemporary political thought, with an emphasis on liberal, republican and democratic theory and the pragmatic philosophical tradition.  He is the author of The Invention of Market Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Reconstructing Public Reason (Harvard University Press, 2004).  His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, The Good Society and a number of other journals.  He is currently working on a study of the influence of British empiricism in political thought.

Professor MacGilvray is co-leader of the Democratic Governance Focus Group in the OSU Center for Ethics and Human Values.

Selected Publications:

2011. The Invention of Market Freedom.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

2010. “Reply to Festenstein.” Contemporary Political Theory 9 (1).

2007. “Pluralism in the Thought of William James.” The Good Society 15 (3).

2007. “Pragmatism and the Epistemic Defense of Democracy.” Contemporary Pragmatism 4 (2).

2004. Reconstructing Public Reason. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

2000. “Five Myths About Pragmatism, or, Against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence.” Political Theory 28 (4).

1999. “Experience as Experiment: Some Consequences of Pragmatism for Democratic Theory.” American Journal of Political Science 43 (2).