Office: Bear Hall 280
Phone: (910) 962-3836
Email: habibid@uncw.edu

Degrees

• Ph.D., Cornell University 
• M.A., Cornell University
• B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Areas of Expertise

• Social and Political Philosophy
• Ethics
• Legal Theory
• Nineteenth Century British Philosophy (Liberalism, Utilitarianism)
• Political Culture of the contemporary Middle East

Recent Publications

 

• “The Proportionality Problem in NGO Coverage of Human Rights Abuse,” in Thomas Cushman, ed., Routledge International Handbook on Human Rights, forthcoming, 2008.
• “The Politicization of the International Human Rights Movement: A Utilitarian Critique,” Journal of Human Rights, 6:1 (2007), pp. 3-35.
• “The Magic Moment: The Liminal, Distended Time Flashforward of Ambrose Bierce,” The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal, 1:1 (Fall 2005) http://www.ambrosebierce.org/journal1habibi.htm.
• “The Experience of a Lifetime:  Philosophical Reflections on a Narrative Device of Ambrose Bierce,” Studies in the Humanities, 29:2 (December 2002), pp. 83-108.
• "Moral Thought vs. Imperialist Reality:  J.S. Mill and India,” Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion, VII (October, 2002), pp. 1-43.
• John Stuart Mill and the Ethic of Human Growth (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001).
• “The Moral Dimensions of J.S. Mill's Colonialism," Journal of Social Philosophy, 30:1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 125-146.
• "Mill's Revisionist Utilitarianism," British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 6:1 (March, 1998), pp. 89-114.

Courses Taught

• PAR 101: Invitation to Philosophical Thinking
• PAR 211: Philosophy of Human Nature
• PAR 265: Philosophy and Film
• PAR 310: Legal Philosophy and Jurisprudence
• PAR 340: Philosophy and Religion
• PAR 365: Topics in Philosophy and Film

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