Dr Matt Sleat

Books

• Sleat M (2015) Liberal realism. Manchester University Press.
• Sleat M (2013) Liberal Realism: A Realist Theory of Liberal Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Sleat M (2013) Liberal realism. Manchester University Press.

Edited books

• Sleat M (Ed.) (2018) Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory and Practice. Columbia: Columbia University Press.

Journal articles

• Shklar JN (2023) Rights in the Liberal Tradition. Political Studies, 71(2), 279-294.
• Sleat M (2021) Realism and political normativity. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
• Hall E & Sleat M (2019) Ethics, morality and the case for realist political theory (vol 20, pg 276, 2017). CRITICAL REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, 22(2), 235-235.
• Hall E & Sleat M (2018) Ethics, morality and the case for realist political theory. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 10-27.
• Sleat M (2018) Just cyber war?: Casus belli, information ethics, and the human perspective. Review of International Studies, 44(2), 324-342. View this article in WRRO
• Hall E & Sleat M (2017) Ethics, morality and the case for realist political theory. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 20(3), 276-290. View this article in WRRO
• Sleat M (2016) What is a Political Value?: Political Philosophy and Fidelity to Reality. Social Philosophy and Policy, 33(1-2), 252-272. View this article in WRRO
• Sleat M (2016) The value of global justice: Realism and moralism. Journal of International Political Theory, 12(2), 169-184. View this article in WRRO
• Sleat M (2016) Realism, Liberalism and Non-ideal Theory Or, Are there Two Ways to do Realistic Political Theory?. Political Studies, 64(1), 27-41. View this article in WRRO
• Sleat M (2016) The politics and morality of the responsibility to protect: Beyond the realist/liberal impasse. International Politics, 53(1), 67-82.
• Sleat M (2015) Justice and Legitimacy in Contemporary Liberal Thought: A Critique. Social Theory and Practice: an international and interdisciplinary journal of social philosophy, 41(2), 230-252. View this article in WRRO
• Sleat M (2015) The primacy of politics: Towards a more realistic liberalism. Juncture, 21(4), 305-310.
• Rossi E & Sleat M (2014) Realism in Normative Political Theory. Philosophy Compass, 9(10), 689-701.
• Sleat M (2014) Legitimacy in Realist Thought. Political Theory, 42(3), 314-337.
• Sleat M (2014) A Defence of the Radical Version of the Asymmetry Objection to Political Liberalism. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 14(1), 73-90.
• Sleat M (2013) ‘Responsible to Whom? Obligations to Participants and Society in Social Science Research’. Academy of Social Sciences' Professional Briefings, 3, 15-18. View this article in WRRO
• Sleat M (2013) Coercing non-liberal persons: Considerations on a more realistic liberalism. European Journal of Political Theory, 12(4), 347-367.
• Sleat M (2013) Hope and Disappointment in Politics. Contemporary Politics, 19(2), 131-145. View this article in WRRO
• Sleat M (2013) Justification, Pluralism and Pragmatism: The Problems and Possibilities of a Peircean Epistemic Justification of Liberalism. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 5(2), 38-58.
• Sleat M (2012) Legitimacy in a non-ideal key: A critical response to Andrew Mason. Political Theory, 40(5), 650-656.
• Sleat M (2011) Liberal realism: A liberal response to the realist critique. Review of Politics, 73(3), 469-496.
• Sleat M (2010) Bernard Williams and the possibility of a realist political theory. European Journal of Political Theory, 9(4), 485-503.
• Sleat M (2007) On the relationship between truth and liberal politics. INQUIRY, 50(3), 288-305.
• Sleat M (2007) Making Sense of our Political Lives - The Political Realism of Bernard Williams. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 3(10), 389-398.
• Sleat M (2006) Liberalism, Fundamentalism and Truth. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 4(23), 405-417.
• Sleat M () Truth and Loyalty. Political Theory.
• Sleat M () Against Realist Ideology Critique. Social Philosophy and Policy.
• Sleat M () Justification, Pluralism and Pragmatism. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, V(2).
• Sleat M () Self-deception about truthfulness. European Journal of Philosophy.

Chapters

• Sleat M (2019) Modus Vivendi and Legitimacy: Some Sceptical Thoughts, The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi (pp. 185-201). Springer International Publishing
• Sleat M (2018) Introduction: Politics Recovered-on the Revival of Realism in Contemporary Political Theory, Politics Recovered (pp. 1-26). Columbia University Press
• Sleat M (2018) 'What is Modus Vivendi?: Some Sceptical Thoughts' In Horton J (Ed.), The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi Springer
• Sleat M (2018) 'Politics Recovered: On the Revival of Realism in Contemporary Political Theory' In Sleat M (Ed.), Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory and Practice (pp. 1-26). Columbia: Columbia University Press.
• Sleat M (2017) Responsible to Whom? Obligations to Participants and Society in Social Science Research, Finding Common Ground: Consensus in Research Ethics Across the Social Sciences (pp. 37-46). Emerald Publishing Limited
• Sleat M (2013) The resurgence of realist political theory Introduction, LIBERAL REALISM: A REALIST THEORY OF LIBERAL POLITICS (pp. 1-+).
• Sleat M (2013) The realist vision of the political Conflict, coercion, and the circumstances of politics, LIBERAL REALISM: A REALIST THEORY OF LIBERAL POLITICS (pp. 45-70).
• Sleat M (2013) The realist challenge to liberal theory, LIBERAL REALISM: A REALIST THEORY OF LIBERAL POLITICS (pp. 71-88).
• Sleat M (2013) The partisan foundations of liberal realism, LIBERAL REALISM: A REALIST THEORY OF LIBERAL POLITICS (pp. 132-151).
• Sleat M (2013) The moderate hegemony of liberal realism, LIBERAL REALISM: A REALIST THEORY OF LIBERAL POLITICS (pp. 152-175).
• Sleat M (2013) The liberal vision of the political Consensus, freedom, and legitimacy, LIBERAL REALISM: A REALIST THEORY OF LIBERAL POLITICS (pp. 21-44).
• Sleat M (2013) Liberal alternatives The liberalism of fear and modus vivendi, LIBERAL REALISM: A REALIST THEORY OF LIBERAL POLITICS (pp. 89-111).
• Sleat M (2013) Bernard Williams and the structure of liberal realism, LIBERAL REALISM: A REALIST THEORY OF LIBERAL POLITICS (pp. 112-131).

Book reviews

• Sleat M (2022) Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century. By Joshua L. Cherniss. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 328p. $35.00 cloth.. Perspectives on Politics, 20(2), 707-708.
• Sleat M (2021) Hoping for an apocalypse? Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times by Alison McQueen. European Journal of Political Theory, 20(4), 804-811.
• Sleat M (2017) Book Review: Peter J Steinberger, The Politics of Objectivity: An Essay on the Foundations of Political Conflict. Political Studies Review, 15(1), 94-94.
• Sleat M (2009) The Legacy of John Rawls. POLIT STUD REV, 7(2), 243-243.
• Sleat M (2007) 'Value, reality, and desire'. Philosophical Investigations, 30(1), 97-100.

Other

• Stevenson H, Hindmoor A, Pattie C & Sleat M (2017) Editorial. Political Studies, 65(3), 533-534.
• Rossi E, Sleat M & Jubb R (2016) A year in the life of the European Journal of Political Theory. European Journal of Political Theory, 15(4), 375-376.
• Rossi E, Sleat M & Jubb R (2014) A message from the new editors. European Journal of Political Theory, 13(4), 385-387.

Preprints

• Rossi E & Sleat M () Realism in Normative Political Theory.