Japa Pallikkathayil




About Me

My name is Japa Pallikkathayil (prounced like this: "JEH-pa PUH-lick-ah-THIGH-ill")

I am an associate professor in the philosophy department at the University of Pittsburgh. I work on issues at the intersection of moral and political philosophy. My recent work focuses on bodily rights.

Contact Publications CV

Articles and Chapters

"What is External Freedom?", forthcoming in Law and Morality in Kant, edited by Philipp-Alexander Hirsch and Martin Brecher, Cambridge University Press.

"Kant on the State", forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, Oxford University Press.

"The Stability or Fragility of Justice", Rawls's A Theory of Justice at 50, edited by Paul Weithman, Cambridge University Press, 2023.

"Shadows of the Self: Reflections on the Authority of Advance Directives", in Normativity and Agency: Themes from the Work of Christine Korsgaardedited by Tamar Schapiro, Kyla Ebels-Duggan and Sharon Street, Oxford University Press, 2022.

"Consent to Sexual Interactions", Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Vol. 19, Issue 20, (2020), pp. 107-127.

"Free Speech and the Embodied Self", Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, edited by David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne, and Steven Wall, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 61-83.

"The Truth About Deception", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 98, no. 1 (2019), pp. 147-166.

"Disagreement and the Duties of Citizenship", American Philosophical Quarterly, 56, no. 1 (2019), pp. 71-82.

"Resisting Rawlsian Political Liberalism", Philosophy & Public Affairs, 45, no. 4 (Fall 2017), pp. 413-426.

"Persons and Bodies", in Freedom and Force: Essays on Kant's Legal Philosophy, edited by Sari Kisilevsky and Martin Stone, Hart Publishing, 2017.

"Neither Perfectionism nor Political Liberalism", Philosophy & Public Affairs, 44, no. 3 (Summer 2016), pp. 171-196.

"Kant and the Limits of Global Governance", in Margit Ruffing, Claudio La Rocca, Alfredo Ferrarin & Stefano Bacin (eds.), Kant Und Die Philosophie in Weltbürgerlicher Absicht: Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010. De Gruyter (2013) pp. 885-892.

"The Possibility of Choice: Three Accounts of the Problem of Coercion", Philosophers' Imprint, Vol. 11, No. 16 (November 2011), pp. 1-20.

"Deriving Morality from Politics: Rethinking the Formula of Humanity", Ethics Vol. 121, No. 1 (October 2010), pp. 116-147.


Commentaries and Reviews

"The Formula of Humanity", Understanding Kant's Groundwork, edited by Steven Cahn, Hackett Publishing Company, 2023. pp. 743-748.

"Human Rights and The Right to be Loved", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. XCIV, No. 3 (May 2017), pp. 743-748.

"Revisiting the Interest Theory of Rights: Discussion of The Morality of Freedom", Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, (2016).

"Review of G.A. Cohen's Rescuing Justice and Equality", Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 108, Issue 10 (October 2011), pp. 583-588.