Susan Mendus

Biography

Susan Mendus is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of York, England. She joined the University in 1975 as Lecturer in Philosophy and transferred to the Politics Department in 1986, where she was Morrell Fellow in Toleration for 3 years. From 1990 to 1999 she was Director of the Morrell Studies Programme. She was awarded the title of Professor in 1995, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004.

Professor Mendus’ research interests lie mainly in the area of contemporary liberal political philosophy, and she has a special interest in toleration as a philosophical concept. Her publications on the topic of toleration include:

Aspects of Toleration (Methuen, 1985)

Justifying Toleration (Cambridge University Press, 1988)

Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism (Macmillan, 1989)

A collection of her articles on feminist philosophy was published by Routledge in 2000 under the title Feminism and Emotion, and her most recent book, Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002. She is currently working on a book entitled Political Integrity.

Professor Mendus has delivered a number of Keynote Addresses in Britain and abroad. These include: the Hannah Arendt Lecture at the University of Southampton; the Milne Lecture at the University of Durham; and a plenary lecture to the International Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society.

Susan Mendus 2005