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Dr. Peter Stone

Dr. Peter Stone

Associate Professor, Political Science

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Biography

Peter Stone received his B.A. in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University in 1993. While at Penn State, he completed a Senior Honors Thesis entitled "Towards the Empowerment of Labor: The Allende Experience." He then entered postgraduate study in Political Science at the University of Rochester, receiving an M.A. in 1996 and a Ph.D. in 2000. His Dissertation was entitled "The Luck of the Draw: Revisiting the Lot as a Democratic Institution." From 2003 to 2010 he was Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He then spent a year as Faculty Fellow at Tulane University's Center for Ethics and Public Affairs before becoming Ussher Assistant Professor of Political Science (Political Theory) at Trinity College Dublin in fall 2011. Stone specializes in political theory, especially such areas as democratic theory, theories of justice, rational choice theory, and the philosophy of social science. He is particularly concerned with questions involving the scope and limits of human reason. He is the author of The Luck of the Draw: The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making (Oxford University Press, 2011) and the editor of Lotteries in Public Life: A Reader (Imprint Academic, 2011). He has published articles in such peer-reviewed journals as the Journal of Political Philosophy, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Rationality and Society, Social Science Information, Social Theory and Practice, and Theory and Research in Education. He belongs to many professional societies including the American Political Science Association, the Association for Political Theory, the Bertrand Russell Society, the Political Studies Association, and the Political Studies Association of Ireland. When not working on political science, he enjoys swing dancing, the music of Leonard Cohen, and the occasional game of poker.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Peter Stone, Hobbes' Problem, The Good Society, 24, (1), 2015, p1 - 14Journal Article, 2015, URL
  • Peter Stone, Sortition, Voting, and Democratic Equality, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP), 19, (3), 2016, p339 - 356Journal Article, 2016
  • Tim Madigan and Peter Stone, eds., Bertrand Russell, Public Intellectual, Rochester, Tiger Bark Press, 2016, 1 - 241ppBook, 2016, URL
  • Introduction: Who Was Bertrand Russell? in, editor(s)Tim Madigan and Peter Stone , Bertrand Russell, Public Intellectual, Rochester, Tiger Bark Press, 2016, pp13 - 23, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2016, URL
  • Russell the Political Activist in, editor(s)Tim Madigan and Peter Stone , Bertrand Russell, Public Intellectual, Rochester, Tiger Bark Press, 2016, pp99 - 132, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2016, URL
  • Peter Stone, Bertrand Russell's Life and Legacy, Wilmington, DE, Vernon Press, 2017Book, 2017, URL
  • Editor's Introduction in, editor(s)Peter Stone , Bertrand Russell's Life and Legacy, Wilmington, DE, Vernon Press, 2017, ppxi - xvii, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2017, URL
  • Philosophical Biography Reconsidered in, editor(s)Peter Stone , Bertrand Russell's Life and Legacy, Wilmington, DE, Vernon Press, 2017, pp21 - 41, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2017, URL
  • The Wisdom of the Multitude: Diversity versus Size in, editor(s)Rafal Urbaniak and Gillman Payette , Applications of Formal Philosophy: The Road Less Travelled, Cham, Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp55 - 71, [Peter Stone and Koji Kagotani]Book Chapter, 2017, URL
  • Russell's Literary Approach to History in, editor(s)Russell Wahl , Bloomsbury Companion to Russell, London, Bloomsbury, 2018, pp361-386 , [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2018
  • Consent, Contract, and Autonomy in, Edwin Etieyibo , Social Contract Theory, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington, DC, 2018, pp29 - 59, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2018
  • Democratic Equality and Militant Democracy in, editor(s)Anthoula Malkopoulou and Alexander S. Kirshner , Militant Democracy and Its Critics: Populism, Parties, Extremism, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp38 - 55, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2019
  • Theorizing Presidential Rotation in, editor(s)Alexander Baturo and Robert Elgie , The Politics of Presidential Term Limits, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp19 - 36, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2019
  • Democracy in Ireland: Theory and Practice in, editor(s)David M. Farrell and Niamh Hardiman , The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Sortition and Mini-Publics: A Different Kind of Representation in, editor(s)Robert Rohrschneider and Jacques Thomassen , Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, [David M. Farrell and Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2020, DOI
  • Democracy and Equality of Opportunity in, editor(s)Mitja Sardoč, Michael A. Peters, and Les Jacobs , Handbook of Equality of Opportunity, Heidelberg, Springer, 2022, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2022, DOI
  • Sortition, Voting, and Democratic Equality in, editor(s)Anthoula Malkopoulou and Lisa Hill , Equality and Representation: New Perspectives in Democratic Theory, London, Routledge, 2018, pp47 - 64, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2018, DOI , URL
  • Access to Higher Education by the Luck of the Draw in, editor(s)Anna Mountford-Zimdars, Daniel Sabbagh, and David Post , Fair Access to Higher Education: Global Perspectives, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2014, pp248 - 270, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2014, URL
  • Peter Stone, The Logic of Storytelling and the Storytelling of Logic, Islamic Perspective, 5, 2011, p279 - 307Journal Article, 2011, URL
  • The Logic of Storytelling and the Storytelling of Logic in, editor(s)Tim Madigan and Peter Stone , Bertrand Russell, Public Intellectual, Rochester, NY, Tiger Bark Press, 2016, pp211 - 237, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2016, URL
  • Peter Stone, The Elephant in the Room, International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs, 9, 2019, p85 - 97Review Article, 2019, DOI , URL
  • Clodagh Harris, Laura Cahillane, David M. Farrell, Peter Stone, and Jane Suiter, Country Report: Ireland, COST Action CA17135: Constitution-Making & Deliberative Democracy, August, 2020, 1-11Report, 2020, URL
  • Stone, Peter and Malkopoulou, Anthoula, Allotted Chambers as Defenders of Democracy, Constellations, 29, (3), 2022, p296 - 309Journal Article, 2022, DOI
  • Peter StoneTim Madigan, Bertrand Russell, Public Intellectual, 2, Rochester, NY, Tiger Bark Press, 2021, 1 - 337ppBook, 2021
  • Chomsky and Russell Revisited in, editor(s)Tim Madigan and Peter Stone , Bertrand Russell, Public Intellectual, Rochester, NY, Tiger Bark Press, 2021, pp299 - 320, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2021, URL
  • "But There Are Always Exceptions:" An Interview with Noam Chomsky in, editor(s)Tim Madigan and Peter Stone , Bertrand Russell, Public Intellectual, Rochester, NY, Tiger Bark Press, 2021, pp321 - 333, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2021, URL
  • Peter Stone, Ideal Theory: True and False, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 24, (1), 2021, p375 - 380Review Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • John Garry, James Pow, Clifford Stevenson, and Peter Stone, Imaginative Policy Surveys in Divided Societies: Feasibility, Effect and Perceived Legitimacy, International Political Science Review, 45, (2), 2024, p243 - 260Journal Article, 2024, DOI
  • Peter Stone, Open Democracy versus Popular Rule, Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 18, (1), 2022, p5 - 5Journal Article, 2022, DOI
  • Peter Stone, In the Shadow of Rawls: Egalitarianism Today, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 25, (1), 2022, p157 - 168Review Article, 2022, DOI
  • From Deliberative Systems to Democracy in, editor(s)Min Reuchamps and Yanina Welp , Deliberative Constitution-Making: Opportunities and Challenges, Oxon, Routledge, 2024, pp47 - 59, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2024, DOI , URL
  • Peter Stone, Popular Rule without Popular Sovereigny, Democratic Theory, 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
  • Peter Stone and Audrey M. Plan, Trends in Theorizing Sortition, International Political Science Abstracts, 74, (2), 2024, p205 - 216Journal Article, 2024, DOI
  • Peter Stone, Review of Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States, by Christopher F. Zurn , Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2024Review, 2024, TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Sortition as Democratic Utopia, Journal of Sortition, 1, (2), 2025, p387-402Journal Article, 2025, DOI
  • Peter Stone, The Luck of the Draw: The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making, Oxford University Press, 2011Book, 2011, DOI , URL
  • Peter Stone, Varieties of Indeterminacy, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 6, (7), 2012, p107 - 116Journal Article, 2012, URL
  • Peter Stone, Three Arguments for Lotteries, Social Science Information, 49, (2), 2010, p147 - 163Journal Article, 2010, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Lotteries, Justice, and Probability, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 21, (3), 2009, p395 - 409Journal Article, 2009, URL
  • Peter Stone, The Logic of Random Selection, Political Theory, 37, (3), 2009, p375 - 397Journal Article, 2009
  • Peter Stone, Rationality, Intelligibility, and Interpretation, Rationality and Society, 21, (1), 2009, p35 - 58Journal Article, 2009, URL
  • Peter Stone, What Can Lotteries Do for Education?, Theory and Research in Education, 6, (3), 2008, p267 - 282Journal Article, 2008
  • Peter Stone, On Fair Lotteries, Social Theory and Practice, 34, (4), 2008, p573 - 590Journal Article, 2008, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Why Lotteries Are Just, Journal of Political Philosophy, 15, (3), 2007, p276 - 295Journal Article, 2007, DOI
  • Peter Stone, The Impossibility of Rational Politics?, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2, (2), 2003, p239 - 263Journal Article, 2003, URL
  • Peter Stone, A Renaissance for Random Selection?, Redescriptions, 16, 2012, p125 - 136Review Article, 2012
  • Peter Stone, Access to Higher Education by the Luck of the Draw, Comparative Education Review, 57, (3), 2013, p577 - 599Journal Article, 2013
  • Michele Westhead and Peter Stone, Is Browne the Colour of Mud?, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Educational Studies, 7, (3), 2012, p53 - 62Journal Article, 2012
  • The Straw Theist? in, editor(s)Seyed Javad Miri , The Global Future of Religion, IPSC Press, 2013, pp153 - 171, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2013
  • The Logic of Storytelling and the Storytelling of Logic in, editor(s)Seyed Javad Miri , Social Theory, Religion and Critical Discourses: Critical Theory in the Postmodern Globe, Saarbrücken, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011, pp389 - 416, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2011, URL
  • Peter Stone, The Concept of Picking, 2011Working Paper, 2011, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Conceptualizing Lotteries, 2007Working Paper, 2007, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Introduction: Reflections on Andrew Rehfeld's The Concept of Constituency.., Polity, 40, (2), 2008, p216 - 220Journal Article, 2008, URL
  • Peter Stone, Voting, Lotteries, and Justice, Polity, 40, (2), 2008, p246 - 253Journal Article, 2008, URL
  • Peter Stone, On Linking Cognitive Mechanisms to Game Play, Politics and the Life Sciences, 22, (2), 2003, p33 - 40Journal Article, 2003, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Many Voices, Different Voices, 2012Working Paper, 2012, URL
  • Russell, Mathematics, and the Popular Mind in, editor(s)Alan Schwerin , Russell Revisited: Critical Reflections on the Thought of Bertrand Russell, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp46 - 66, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, 2008
  • Gil Delannoi, Oliver Dowlen, and Peter Stone, The Lottery as a Democratic Institution, The Policy Institute, July, 2013Report, 2013, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Non-Reasoned Decision-Making, Economics and Philosophy, 30, (2), 2014, p195 - 214Journal Article, 2014, DOI , URL
  • Peter Stone, Introducing Difference into the Condorcet Jury Theorem, Theory and Decision, 78, (3), 2015, p399 - 409Journal Article, 2015
  • Anarchism, Michael T. Gibbons, Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp1-4 , [Peter Stone]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2014, DOI , URL
  • Collective Action, Michael T. Gibbons, Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp1-2 , [Peter Stone]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2014, DOI , URL
  • Russell, Bertrand, Michael T. Gibbons, Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp1-3 , [Peter Stone]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2014, DOI , URL
  • Voting, Michael T. Gibbons, Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp1-6 , [Peter Stone]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2014, DOI , URL
  • Peter Stone, The Pursuit of Consensus in Global Political Theory, Public Affairs Quarterly, 28, (3), 2014, p215 - 230Journal Article, 2014, URL
  • Peter Stone, Social Contract Theory in the Global Context, Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 2, 2014, p177-189Journal Article, 2014, TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Review of Rationality and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman, by Manuel Vargas and Gideon Yaffe, eds. , Metapsychology Online Reviews, 19, (15), 2015Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, 'Guaranteed Rotation in Office': A Comment, Political Quarterly, 86, (3), 2015, p380 - 384Journal Article, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Constitution of Risk, by Adrian Vermeule , Perspectives on Politics, 13, (3), 2015, p851-853Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice, by Cass R. Sunstein , Metapsychology Online Reviews, 19, (45), 2015Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Russell Needed to Write, Review of A Pacifist at War: Letters and Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1914-1918, by Nicholas Griffin (ed.) , Russell, 36, 2016, p92-94Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Zombie Movie Morals (I), Philosophy Now, 2013, p44 - 45Journal Article, URL
  • Peter Stone, The Passionate Bertrand Russell, Philosophy Now, (120), 2017, p6 - 8Journal Article, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Demarchy Manifesto: For Better Public Policy. How to Enlighten, Articulate, and Give Effect to Public Opinion , by John Burnheim , Contemporary Political Theory, 17, (1), 2018, p26-29Review
  • Julian Culp, Nicole Hassoun, and Peter Stone, Review of Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights, by Diana Tietjens Meyers, ed. , Ethics, 126, (1), 2015, p234-238Review
  • Peter Stone, Review of Freedom's Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life, by Axel Honneth , Philosophy Now, (121), 2017, p48-49Review, URL
  • Kevin Lacourse and Peter Stone, Review of Citizen Killings; Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk, by Dean-Peter Baker , Ethical Theory and Moral Practice , 21, (4), 2018, p1013-1014Review
  • Kevin Lacourse and Peter Stone, Review of More on War, by Martin van Creveld , Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 19, (1), 2018, p165-168Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Bertrand Russell, Truth Seeker, 2018, - 4-8Miscellaneous
  • Peter Stone, Review of Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics, by Chris Knight , Philosophy Now, (127), 2018, p44-45Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of From Bacteria to Bach and back: The Evolution of Minds, by Daniel C. Dennett , Philosophy Now, (129), 2018, p44-46Review, URL
  • Peter Stone on Randomness as a Political Tool in, Dispute Resolution: The Kleros Handbook of Centralized Justice, 2019, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Review of Planning, Time, and Self-Governance: Essays in Practical Rationality by Michael Bratman, Review of Planning, Time, and Self-Governance: Essays in Practical Rationality, by Michael Bratman , Metapsychology Online Reviews, 24, (1), 2019Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism, by Russell Blackford , Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 25, (2), 2022, p389-391Review, DOI
  • Peter Stone, Review of Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics, by John Gastil and Katherine R. Knobloch , Perspectives on Politics, 20, (3), 2022, p1090-1091Review, DOI
  • Peter Stone, A Humanist from the Humanities, Review of Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic, by Stanley Corngold , Free Inquiry, 42, (4), 2022, p62-63Review
  • Peter Stone, Review of Why Does Inequality Matter?, by T.M. Scanlon , Philosophy Now, (150), 2022, p49-50Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding, by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber , Philosophy Now, (152), 2022, p50-52Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics, Review of The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality, by Philip Pettit , Philosophy Now, (160), 2024, p18-19Review
  • Journal of Sortition Editorial Board, Sortition: Past and Present, Journal of Sortition, 1, (1), 2025, p8 - 23Journal Article, DOI
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Collaborative Constitution, by Aileen Kavanagh , Irish Political Studies, 40, (3), 2025, p440-442Review, DOI
  • Peter Stone, Lotteries in Public Life: A Reader, Imprint Academic, 2011Book
  • Lotteries and Probability Theory in, editor(s)Gil Delannoi and Oliver Dowlen , Sortition: Theory and Practice, Imprint Academic, 2010, pp157 - 171, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, TARA - Full Text
  • Introduction to A Citizen Legislature by Ernest Callenbach and Michael Philips in, editor(s)Ernest Callenbach, Michael Phillips, and Keith Sutherland , A Citizen Legislature/A People's Parliament, Imprint Academic, 2008, pp9 - 16, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Making the World Safe for Methods, The Political Methodologist, 10, (1), 2001, p9 - 10Journal Article, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Peter Stone, Pi and the Movie Mind, Philosophy Now, 2007, p44 - 46Journal Article, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Finding Oneself in the Other by G.A. Cohen., Review of Finding Oneself in the Other, by G.A Cohen , Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2013Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Virtues, Rules, and Justice: Kantian Aspirations by Thomas E. Hill, Jr. , Review of Virtues, Rules, and Justice: Kantian Aspirations, by Thomas E. Hill, Jr. , Metapsychology Online Reviews, 17, (8), 2013Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Nature and Use of Lotteries by Thomas Gataker., Review of The Nature and Use of Lotteries, by Thomas Gataker , History of Political Thought, 34, (1), 2013, p172-175Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray by Noam Chomsky., Review of The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray., by Noam Chomsky , Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2012Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould by Richard York and Brett Clark., Review of The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould, by Richard York and Brett Clark. , Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2012Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama., Review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, by Francis Fukuyama. , Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2012Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Politics of Genocide by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson., Review of The Politics of Genocide, by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson. , New Political Science, 34, (1), 2012, p93-96Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy by G.A. Cohen., Review of On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy, by G.A. Cohen , Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2011Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of The Political Potential of Sortition by Oliver Dowlen., Review of The Political Potential of Sortition, by Oliver Dowlen , Philosophical Quarterly, 60, (240), 2010, p664-666Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Sophomoric, Review of Bertrand Russell's Socio-Political Ideas., by Jyotish Ch. Basak , Russell, 30, (1), 2010, p90-93Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America by Anouar Majid., Review of A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America, by Anouar Majid , New Political Science, 32, (1), 2010, p154-156Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, An Aristotle's Eye View, Review of Experiments in Ethics, by Kwane Anthony Appiah , Radical Philosophy Review, 13, (2), 2010, p223-226Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Rescuing Justice and Equality by G.A. Cohen., Review of Rescuing Justice and Equality, by G.A. Cohen , Perspectives on Politics, 7, (3), 2009, p640-641Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Democracy Defended by Gerry Mackie., Review of Democracy Defended, by Gerry Mackie , Public Choice, 125, (3-4), 2005, p471-475Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Justice and Democracy edited by Keith Dowding, Robert E. Goodin, and Carole Pateman. , Review of Justice and Democracy , by Keith Dowding, Robert E. Goodin, and Carole Pateman, eds. , Perspectives on Politics, 3, (3), 2005, p614-615Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, "Hanging Out with Russell, Brando, and Lennon.", Review of Street Fighting Years: an Autobiography of the Sixties, by Tariq Ali , Russell, 25, (1), 2005, p91-93Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy by S.M. Amadae. , Review of Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy, by S.M. Amadae. , Perspectives on Politics, 2, (2), 2004, p347-348Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Russell in the Philippines, Review of Bertrand Russell to the Rescue: Can the Wit and Wisdom of Bertrand Russell Save the Philippines, by Ramon Suzara , Russell, 23, 2004, p183-185Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Ray Monk and the Politics of Bertrand Russell, Review of Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921-1970, by Ray Monk , Russell, 23, (1), 2003, p82-91Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Cosmopolitan Intervention by Darrel Moellendorf, Review of Cosmopolitan Intervention, by Darrel Moellendorf , New Political Science, 24, (4), 2002, p612-615Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Microfoundations, Method, and Causation: On the Philosophy of the Social Sciences by Daniel Little, Review of Microfoundations, Method, and Causation: On the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, by Daniel Little , Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 32, (1), 2002, p120-126Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Adrift at Armageddon, Review of The ABC of Armageddon: Bertrand Russell on Science, Religion and the Next War, 1919-1938, by Peter H. Denton , Russell, 21, (2), 2002, p181-185Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Russell the Political Theorist, by Bart Schultz, ed. , Russell, 20, (1), 2000, p85-92Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C. Scott, Review of Two Cheers for Anarchism, by James C. Scott , Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2013Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Meaning and Value in a Secular Age: Why Eupraxsophy Matters - The Writings of Paul Kurtz , by Nathan Bupp, ed. , Metapsychology Online Reviews, 17, (44), 2013Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil, by Ulrich Beck , Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2013Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy, by G.A. Cohen , Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2014Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Partiality, by Simon Keller , Metapsychology Online Reviews, 18, (25), 2014Review, URL
  • The Happy Memes of "Hallelujah" in, editor(s)Jason Holt , Leonard Cohen and Philosophy, Chicago, Open Court, 2014, pp241 - 252, [Peter Stone]Book Chapter, URL
  • Peter Stone, Why Not Try Leaving Things to Chance?, Policy Network, 2014Journal Article, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Death and the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler, Review of Death and the Afterlife, by Samuel Scheffler , Metapsychology Online Reviews, 18, (44), 2014Review, URL
  • Peter Stone, Review of Globalization and Global Justice, by Nicole Hassoun , Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 18, (2), 2015, p417-419Review, URL

Research Expertise

I am a political theorist, with a research focus on the politics of random selection (selection via lottery). Lotteries are used both to allocate social benefits and burdens (e.g., admission to oversubscribed courses in Irish universities) and to assign public responsibilities (e.g., service in Ireland's Convention on the Constitution and subsequent Citizens' Assemblies). I have developed a systematic theory of random selection focused upon the ability of lotteries to exclude undesirable reasons from decision making, which I call the sanitizing effect. I have articulated this theory--what I call the lottery principle--in a series of peer-reviewed publications in top political science journals, including the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics. I then presented the full theory in a single-authored peer-reviewed monograph published by Oxford University Press. Since then, I have focused my research on random selection and democracy, comparing randomly-selected citizens' assemblies with elections and referenda as democratic decision-making procedures. This work regularly generates invitations to contribute to peer-reviewed collections issued by leading publishers, including The Politics of Presidential Term Limits (Oxford University Press), Militant Democracy and Its Critics: Populism, Parties, Extremism (Edinburgh University Press), the Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies, the Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics, and the Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (Springer). I have also produced high-quality work in other areas, notably the philosophy of Bertrand Russell. In 2016, I co-edited the peer-reviewed anthology Bertrand Russell: Public Intellectual (Tiger Bark Press), which won the 2017 Bertrand Russell Society Book Award. Overall, I have developed a proven track record as an international researcher, with 67 peer-reviewed publications to date. This work has received sustained scholarly attention, with a citation count of 903 on Google Scholar (h-index 13), 304 on Scopus (h-index 8), and 511 on ResearchGate (h-index 10).

Politics, Social sciences,

Recognition

  • Outstanding Supervisor (Established Supervisor Award Category), School of Social Sciences & Philosophy 2024
  • Best C&M Working Paper Award, Committee on Concepts and Methods, International Political Science Association 2014
  • Lee Eisler Service Award, Bertrand Russell Society 2022
  • M.A. (jure officii), University of Dublin. 2015
  • Bertrand Russell Society Book Award 2017
  • Association for Political Theory
  • Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought
  • American Political Science Association
  • Conference for the Study of Political Thought
  • Political Studies Association of Ireland
  • ASAP (Academics Stand against Poverty) Ireland
  • Political Studies Association
  • Bertrand Russell Society
  • Midwest Political Science Association
  • American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
  • Review Editor, Foundations of Political Theory, Encyclopedia of Political Thought Project 2011-2013
  • Board Member, Bertrand Russell Society 1997-Present
  • Coordinator, Conference for the Study of Political Thought (Upstate New York Chapter) 2001-2003
  • President, Political Studies Association of Ireland 2019-2023
  • Vice President, Political Studies Association of Ireland 2023-Present
  • External Examiner, Ph.D. Viva Voce Examination. Department of Politics, University of Exeter 2017
  • Co-Convenor, Political Theory Specialist Group, Political Studies Association of Ireland 2015-Present
  • Extern, Political Theory Search, School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe), University College Dublin 2013
  • Member, Executive Committee, Political Studies Association of Ireland 2015-Present
  • Political Theory Category Chair, Annual Meeting--European Political Science Association 2014
  • Vice Chair, Bertrand Russell Society 2010-2015
  • Secretary, Political Studies Association of Ireland 2016-2019
  • Vice President, Bertrand Russell Society 2015-2017
  • Secretary of Society and Board, Bertrand Russell Society 1998-2001