Vinit Haksar (B.A. (Delhi), M.A. (Oxon.), D.Phil. (Oxon.), F.R.S.E.) is an Honorary Fellow and a former Reader in the Department of Philosophy. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 1994.

Teaching

Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Moral and Political Philosophy.

Publications

Books

• Rights, Communities and Disobedience (Oxford University Press, 2001, second enlarged edition, 2003).
• Indivisible Selves and Moral Practice (Edinburgh University Press, July 1991, Oxford University Press, South Asia,1991; Barnes and Noble, U.S.A. 1991).
• Civil Disobedience, Threats and Offers ( Oxford University Press, 1986).
• Equality, Liberty and Perfectionism (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1979).

Articles and contributions to anthologies:

• 'Violence in a spirit of love: Gandhi and the limits of non-violence' Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2012, vol. 15,pp. 303-324
• 'Necessary Evil: Justification, Excuse or Pardon?', Criminal Law and Philosophy 2011, vol.5, pp.333-347.
• 'Ideals of Perfection' in J. Skorupski (ed.) Routledge Companion to Ethics, 2010, chapter 55.
• 'Satyagraha and the Right to Civil Disobedience' in D. Allen (ed.) The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008 pp. 63-98. Postscript pp. 80-98 especially written for this volume.
• 'Toleration' in S. Wall and G. Klosko (eds.), Perfectionism and Neutrality, Rowman and Littlefield, London, 2003, pp. 91-102.
• 'Autonomy, Justice and Contractarianism' in C.Kukathas (ed.) John Rawls: Critical Assessment of Leading Political Philosophers, Routledge, London 2003, pp. 127-152.
• 'Rawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobdience' in C. Kukathas (ed.) John Rawls: Critical Assessment of Leading Political Philosophers, Routledge, London 2003, pp.371-406.
• 'The Right to Civil Disobedience' Osgoode Hall Law Journal, University of York, Toronto, 2003 pp. 407-426
• 'Perfectionism', B. Clarke (ed.) Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, Routledge, London 2002 pp. 510-513.
• 'Moral Agents', in E. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge, 1998 vol. 6 pp. 499-504.
• 'Collective Rights and the Value of Groups' Inquiry, 1998 pp. 21-44.
• 'Civil Disobedience and Non-Cooperation' in H. Bedau (ed.), Civil Disobedience in Focus (Routledge, 1991) pp. 144-158.
• 'Social Contract, Integrity and the Right to Equal Liberties' in Proceedings of the World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, ed, W. Maihofer and G. Sprenger, Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 1990, pp. 73-80.
• 'Choice and Values' in Moral Philosophy: Selected Readings, ed. G. Sher, (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987) pp. 545-559.
• 'Rights and Excuses: A Reply to Brady', Ethics, 1987, pp. 796-799.
• 'Excuses and Voluntary Conduct', Ethics, 1986, pp. 317-329.
• 'Nagel on Subjective and Objective', Inquiry, 1981, pp. 105-114.
• 'The Grounds for Equality', (translated into Polish) Etyka: The Polish Journal of Philosophy, October 1980.
• 'The Nature of Rights', Archiv Fur Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, 1978, pp. 183-204.
• 'The alleged paradox of democracy', Analysis, 1976, pp. 10-15.
• 'Rawls and Gandhi on Civil Disobedience', Inquiry, 1976, pp. 151-192.
• 'Coercive Proposals', Political Theory, 1976, pp. 65-79.
• 'Gandhi and the Public Ethic', Gandhi Marg. 1974, pp. 129-135.
• 'Autonomy, Justice and Contractarianism', British Journal of Political Science, 1973, pp. 487-509.
• 'Rawls' Theory of Justice' Analysis, 1972, pp. 149-153.
• 'Aristotle and the Punishment of Psychopaths', reprinted with a new appendix in Aristotle's Ethics edited by J Walsh and H Shapiro, (Wadsworth, 1967) pp. 80-101.
• 'A Scientific Morality?' Philosophy, 1967, pp. 245-264.
• 'Responsibility', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supp. Vol., 1966, XL pp. 186-222.
• 'The Responsibility of Psychopaths', Philosophical Quarterly, 1965, pp. 135-145.
• 'Aristotle and the Punishment of Psychopaths', Philosophy, 1964, pp. 323-30.
• 'The Responsibility of Mental Defectives', Philosophy, 1963, pp. 61-9.

Visiting Positions

• John Miller Scott Visiting Professor, Queen's University, Canada (1982)
• Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (1994)
• Jawaharlal Nehru University (2004-5)

Editorial Boards

• Member, Advisory Editorial Boards of Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, and of International Journal of Gandhi Studies, James Madison University, USA.
• Member, Editorial Board of Ethics, University of Chicago,1979-1985 and was their Guest Editor for the symposium on Excuses 1986.

Recreation

Won International Tennis Federation Over 65 Doubles Tennis Tournament, New Delhi, December 2007.