Howard Lloyd Williams

Howard Williams FLSW is a Welsh political philosopher and Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University. He is known for his works on German philosophy.

Howard Williams was appointed Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University in 2014. He is also Emeritus Professor in Political Theory at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and member of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (the Welsh-language national college).

He has been visiting professor, Department of Philosophy, Halle University, Germany, 1998–9; visiting scholar, Dept of Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 1998; Visiting DAAD Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2002; Visiting professor, Krakow University 2006. In 2004 and 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. In 2010 he gave the Paton lectures at the Department of Philosophy, St. Andrews University and was a principal guest speaker at the 30th Anniversary conference of the Danish Philosophical Forum. In June 2014 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Oslo contributing to a joint project of the Philosophy and Law Departments on International Courts and International Legal Theory.

He has been commissioned by Oxford University Press to write a book on the Kantian Legacy in Political Philosophy in a series edited by Paul Guyer at Brown University, Rhode Island.

Currently, Howard Williams is editing The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory.

His publications include:

'Kantian Underpinnings for a Theory of Multirights' Kantian Theory and Human Rights, edited by Andreas Follesdal and Reidar Maliks, Routledge, New York and London, 2014

'Kant and Libertarianism' in Mark Timmons and Sorin Baiasu Kant on Practical Justification, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, 269-283

'Natural Right in Hobbes and Kant' Hobbes Studies Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2012

'Kantian Perspectives on Intervention: Transcending rather than Rejecting Hobbes' International Political Theory after Hobbes (eds. Raia Prohokvik & Gabrielle Slomp) 2011

'The Torture Convention, Rendition and Kant's critique of pseudo-politics' Review of International Studies Vol 36, No. 1, January 2010

'Is Just War theory merely for sorry comforters?', Annual Review of Law and Ethics, Volume 17, 2009

‘Marcus Tullius Cicero: Y Prif Dda a’r Weriniaeth’, Efrydiau Athronyddol 65, 2002

'Immanuel Kant ac Amlieithrwydd’, Barn, Rhif 453, Hydref 2000

'Y Wladwriaeth a Rhyddid’, (‘Freedom and the State’), Efrydiau Athronyddol, LI, 1988

'Dehongli Marx’, (‘Interpreting Marx’), Elfrydiau Athronyddol, XLVII, 1984

‘Marx and Richard Price’, Enlightenment and Dissent, No. 3, 1984

'Pwysigrwydd yr ysgol fechan yn y wlad’, Lleufer, 4, 1977

AS JOURNAL EDITOR

• Kantian Review (with Richard Aquila) and the cooperation of the Kant Society of the United Kingdom and the North American Kant Society.
• Guest editor Filozofia 4, 49, 1994, Slovak Academy of Sciences devoted to British Political Philosophy

Howard Williams was interviewed by Richard Marshall regarding Kant in Syria.

He was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2017.

He is a member of Glamorgan County Cricket Club and is an avid attendee of Cymru's home football games at the Cardiff City Stadium.