Introduction

Abstract

Abstract This chapter introduces the volume and provides a summary of each of the fourteen subsequent chapters, by Anna Stilz, Avia Pasternak, Andrew Williams, Jonathan Quong, Christopher Heath Wellman, Jeremy Waldron, Daniel Butt and Zofia Stemplowska, Cécile Laborde, Patti Tamara Lenard, Alan Patten, Leslie Green, Sarah Fine, and David Miller. The chapters address a range of themes arising from the work of David Miller. The first three contributions, by Stilz, Pasternak, and Williams, are concerned with Miller’s work on national responsibility and global justice. Quong’s chapter engages with Miller’s writing on the conditionality of human rights. The chapters by Wellman, Waldron, and Butt and Stemplowska address Miller’s recent work on immigration. The contributions by Laborde and Lenard discuss Miller’s influential writing on citizenship and multiculturalism. Patten’s chapter addresses Miller’s treatment of the provision of public goods, and Green his discussion of the political thought of David Hume. Sarah Fine’s chapter employs an interview conducted with Miller to reflect on the role of autobiographical writing in political philosophy. The interview itself appears as Chapter 14 in the volume. The final chapter, by David Miller himself, aims to provide a ‘synoptic view’ of political philosophy: what it is and how it should be done.