Jonathan Mandle is a Professor of Philosophy and former Philosophy Department Chair at the University at Albany, The State University of New York. He is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog. He is the brother of NBA player Adonal Foyle.

He served as University at Albany Philosophy department chair from 2004-2013.

Education

• B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy

• Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy, under the direction of Kurt Baier

Interests

• Ethics and political theory and their history

• John Rawls' theory of social justice

Publications

• What's Left of Liberalism? An Interpretation and Defense of Justice as Fairness. Lexington Books, 2000. ()

• Global Justice: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishers, 2006. ()

Notable blog posts

• Lifeboat Ethics (critique of Garrett Hardin)

• All posts (Crooked Timber post list for Jon Mandle)

External links

• Faculty page

• Photograph