FACULTY

Frederick G. Whelan, PhD Harvard University, 1976 Professor of Political Science E-mail: fwhelan+@pitt.edu Curriculum Vitae

COURSES/SYLLABI

PS 0650 Politics and Liberal Democracy
PS 1601 Political Theory: Plato to Machiavelli
PS 1602 Political Theory: Machiavelli to Rousseau
PS 1610 American Political Theory (the Founding period)
PS 2040 Core Political Theory

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Political thought and philosophy, historical political theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hume and Machiavelli: Political Realism and Liberal Thought. Lexington Books, 2004.

"Burke, India, and Orientalism," in Ian Crowe, ed., Edmund Burke: Fresh Perspectives (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004) (Originally presented at the Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland, 1999).

"Political Theory of the Renaissance and Enlightenment," in Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas, eds., Handbook of Political Theory. (Sage: forthcoming, 2004).

"Clark's Reflections and the Place of Contract in Burke's Political Theory," Studies in Burke and His Time (2004).

"Taking Burke Seriously," in Aleksandar Jokic, ed., Essays in Honor of Burleigh Wilkins: From History to Justice. (New York: Peter Lang, 2001).

"Legal Positivism and International Society," in Terry Nardin and David Mapel, eds., The Constitution of International Society. Princeton University Press, 1998.

"Greek Freedom and Collective Action in Herodotus" Rationality and Society (1997) 9,2:215-44.

Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

"Robertson, Hume, and the Balance of Power," Hume Studies (1995) 21,2:315-32.

"Time, Revolution, and Prescriptive Right in Hume’s Theory of Government," Utilitas (1995) 7,1:97-119.

"Hume and Contractarianism," Polity (1994) 27,2:201-224.

"Population and Ideology in the Enlightenment," History of Political Thought (1991) 12:35-72.

Order and Artifice in Hume’s Political Philosophy. Princeton University Press, 1985.