Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy.

EDUCATION：
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (DPHIL), Philosophy, University of Oxford (2005). MAGISTER (equivalent to MPhil), Philosophy, University of Hamburg (1996). ZWISCHENPRÜFUNG (equivalent to BA), Philosophy, University of Hamburg (1992).

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT：
LUOJIA PROFESSOR IN PHILOSOPHY, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University (Sep 2015– present).
Involves designing and teaching undergraduate, MA and PhD classes in Western Political Philosophy.
HONORARY RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney (Jan 2015–present).
RESEARCH FELLOW, Department of Philosophy, The University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic (Jan–Aug 2015).
LECTURER IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (equivalent to US Asst. Prof.), Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney (Jul 2007–Dec 2014).
Designed and taught undergraduate and graduate classes, provided administrative service, and engaged in undergraduate and graduate supervision. Various Hons, MA and MPhil completions; two PhD completions (Ben Cross, Stuart Wong).
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Balliol College, University of Oxford (Jun–Oct 2006).
INSTRUCTOR IN PHILOSOPHY, Department of Philosophy, Bilkent University, Turkey (Sep 2000– Jun 2007).
Designed and taught 2nd year Great Books courses in social and political philosophy (while completing my Oxford doctorate).
LECTURER IN LOGIC, Somerville College, University of Oxford (Jan–Jun 2000). Taught introductory logic to 2nd year students.
WARDEN OF JOWETT, Balliol College, University of Oxford (Sep 1999–Sep 2000).
Oversaw Balliol’s 3rd year students in a disciplinary and counselling function in concert with the Dean of College.

1、Besch, TM 2018, ‘On Discursive Respect’, under revision for Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (conditionally accepted April 2018).
2、Besch, TM & Lee, JS 2018, ‘On Critical Reflection on Toleration in Social Work’, forthcoming in European Journal of Social Work (accepted 10 May 2018).
3、Besch, TM 2017, ‘Public Justification, Inclusion, and Discursive Equality’, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review. Doi:10.1017/S0012217317000646
4、Besch, TM 2017, ‘Schmidtz on Moral Recognition Rules: a Critique’, Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy and Psychology, vol. 83, no. 2, pp. 138–153.
5、Besch, TM & Lee, JS 2017, ‘On Toleration in Social Work’, European Journal of Social Work. DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2017.1286460
6、Besch, TM 2015, ‘On the Right to Justification and Discursive Respect’, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 703-726.
7、Besch, TM 2014, ‘On Discursive Respect’, Social Theory and Practice, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 207-231.
8、Besch, TM 2013, ‘On a Reflexive Case for Human Rights’, Journal of East-West Thought, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 51-64.
8、Besch, TM 2013, ‘On Political Legitimacy, Reasonableness, and Perfectionism’, Public Reason, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 58-74.
9、Besch, TM 2012, ‘Political Liberalism, the Internal Conception, and the Problem of Public Dogma’, Philosophy and Public Issues, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 153-177.
10、Besch, TM 2011, ‘Factualism, Normativism, and the Bounds of Normativity’, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 347-365.

Besch, TM (under review), ‘A Note on Reciprocity of Reasons’.
(Available at https://whu-cn.academia.edu/ThomasBesch)
Besch, TM (under review), ‘Political Liberalism and Public Justification: The Deep View’. (Available at https://whu-cn.academia.edu/ThomasBesch)
Besch, TM (under review), ‘On Justification, Idealization, and Discursive Purchase’. (Available at https://whu-cn.academia.edu/ThomasBesch)
Cross, B and Besch, TM (under review), ‘The Inconclusiveness of Public Reason’.
Besch, TM and Lee, JS (in preparation), ‘Religion, Inclusion, and Public Reason’. Besch, TM (in preparation), ‘Political Liberalism and Contextualism’.

1.Besch, TM 1998, Über John Rawls’ politischen Liberalismus, Peter Lang, Frankfurt.
2.On Discursive Respect
3.On Critical Reflection on Toleration in Social Work
4.Public Justification, Inclusion, and Discursive Equality
5.On the Right to Justification and Discursive Respect

Conference Grant, The University of Sydney (2011).
Special Studies Project Support Grant, The University  of Sydney (2010).
Research Grant, Bilkent University (2006).