Todd Hedrick

Todd Hedrick is an American social/political philosopher and university educator. He earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 2006 and currently teaches courses on philosophy of law, critical social theory, political philosophy, and 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy at Michigan State University.

Contributions to philosophy

Hedrick's work focuses on contemporary social/political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and critical social theory.

Professional publications

Hedrick has written several peer-reviewed publications including "Constitutionalization and Democratization: Habermas on Postnational Governance," "Race, Difference, and Anthropology in Kant's Cosmopolitanism," and the book Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy.

Awards and distinctions

Hedrick was awarded several grants and fellowships including a Graduate Research Grant from the Mellon Foundation and a DAAD Summer Fellowship from the Kaplan Center for the Humanities.

Selected works

• Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy. Stanford University Press (2010).
• "Democratic Constitutionalism as Mediation: The Decline and Recovery of an Idea in Critical Social Theory," Constellations, forthcoming.
• "Coping with Constitutional Indeterminacy: Rawls and Habermas," Philosophy and Social Criticism 36, no. 2 (2010): 183-208.
• "Race, Difference, and Anthropology in Kant's Cosmopolitanism," Journal of the History of Philosophy 46, no. 2 (2008): 245-68.
• "Constitutionalization and Democratization: Habermas on Postnational Governance," Social Theory and Practice 33, no. 3 (2007): 387-410.