Maxime Lepoutre
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Lecturer
- Module convenor: Feminism and Political Theory (PO3FPT)
- Module convenor: War, Peace, and International Ethics (PO3WPE)
- Co-Convenor: Political Thinking (PO2TH)
Areas of interest
My research interests lie primarily at the intersection of political theory and social epistemology. Over the past few years, I've been especially interested in the norms that should govern political discourse in divided societies.
Here are some of the more specific questions I'm interested in:
- What is the role of negative emotions, such as anger, in democratic public discourse?
- How should we deal with hateful utterances or campaigns of misinformation? In particular, can we neutralise their harms through "more speech"?
- How much of an obstacle do partisan divisions pose for fruitful deliberation?
Postgraduate supervision
I am interested in supervising students working in contemporary political theory, particularly on the topics of democracy, free speech (including hate speech and misinformation), or political emotions (e.g. anger, hope).
Research centres and groups
Reading Ethics and Political Philosophy (REAPP)
Background
I joined the Department of Politics and International Relations in January 2021 as Lecturer in Political Theory. Before that, I worked as Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics and Nuffield College, Oxford (2018-2002), and as Residential Fellow at the University of Connecticut (2019).
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Philosophy, University of Cambridge
- BPhil in Philosophy, University of Oxford
- BSc in Politics and Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Awards and honours
Ernest Barker Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Theory (2019)
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Associate Member, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
- Executive Committee Member, Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought
Selected publications
- Lepoutre, Maxime. Democratic Speech in Divided Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Publications
- Lepoutre, M. (2023) Discursive optimism defended. Politics, Philosophy and Economics ISSN: 1741-3060
- Lepoutre, M. (2023) Democratic speech in divided times: an introduction. Politics, Philosophy and Economics ISSN: 1741-3060
- Cepollaro, B. , Lepoutre, M. , Simpson, R. (2023) Teaching and learning guide for: counterspeech. Philosophy Compass , 18 (2). ISSN: 1747-9991 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12904
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Lepoutre, M.
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Vilar-Lluch, S.
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Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568
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Hansen, N.
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What is hate speech? The case for a corpus approach.
Criminal Law and Philosophy
ISSN:
1871-9805
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11572-023-09675-7
- Cepollaro, B. , Lepoutre, M. , Simpson, R. (2023) Counterspeech. Philosophy Compass , 18 (1). ISSN: 1747-9991 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12890
- Lepoutre, M. (2022) Narrative counterspeech. Political Studies ISSN: 0032-3217 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00323217221129253
- Lepoutre, M. (2022) Hateful counterspeech. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice ISSN: 1572-8447 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-022-10323-7
- Lepoutre, M. (2022) The red mist. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy ISSN: 1559-3061
- Lepoutre, M. (2022) Political understanding. British Journal of Political Science ISSN: 1469-2112 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007123422000023
- Lepoutre, M. (2021) Democratic Speech in Divided Times. Oxford University Press pp 288. ISBN: 9780198869757
- Lepoutre, M. (2020) Hate speech laws: expressive power is not the answer. Legal Theory , 25 (4). pp. 272-296. ISSN: 1469-8048 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S135232522000004X
- Lepoutre, M. (2020) Democratic group cognition. Philosophy & Public Affairs , 48 (1). pp. 40-78. ISSN: 1088-4963 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/papa.12157
- Lepoutre, M. (2019) Can 'more speech' counter ignorant speech?. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy , 16 (3). ISSN: 1559-3061 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v16i3.682
- Lepoutre, M. (2018) Rage inside the machine: defending the place of anger in democratic speech. Politics, Philosophy and Economics , 17 (4). pp. 398-426. ISSN: 1741-3060 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470594X18764613
- Lepoutre, M. (2017) Hate speech in public discourse: a pessimistic defense of counterspeech. Social Theory and Practice , 43 (4). pp. 851-883. ISSN: 2154-123X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract201711125
- Lepoutre, M. (2016) Immigration controls: why the self-determination argument is self-defeating. Journal of Social Philosophy , 47 (3). pp. 309-331. ISSN: 1467-9833 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josp.12156