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Kinch Hoekstra
Title: Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science
Office: 594 Simon Hall
Tel: 510-642-0680
Email Address: khoekstra@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Jennifer Zahgkuni
Kinch Hoekstra specializes in the history of political, moral, and legal philosophy. He has written on ancient, renaissance, and early modern political thought. In particular, he has published a number of studies on aspects of the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, including legal obligation, democracy, tyranny, mixed government, natural law, and the rationality of justice. From 1996 to 2007, Hoekstra taught in the faculty of philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he was the Fellow in Ancient and Modern Philosophy at Balliol College. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2004-5) and an Ahmanson-Getty Fellow at UCLA (2001-2). Hoekstra holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science.
Education:
B.A., Brown University (1987)D.Phil., Oxford University (1998)
