Sleat, Matt, Dr

Dr Matt Sleat

Department of Politics and International Relations

Reader in Political Theory

m.sleat@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1692

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Dr Matt Sleat
Department of Politics and International Relations
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Profile

Dr. Matt Sleat joined the Department in 2007 and is currently a Reader in Political Theory.

He works on and has published widely across three main research areas: realist political thought, liberal philosophy, and international relations theory. He is author of Liberal Realism: A Realist Theory of Liberal Politics (MUP 2013; paperback 2017) and editor of Politics Recovered: Essays on Realist Political Thought (Columbia University Press 2018).

He has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Political Theory, Review of International Studies, Review of Politics, Political Studies, European Journal of Political Theory, European Journal of Philosophy, International Politics, Social Philosophy & Practice, International Political Theory and Social Theory & Practice.

He has held visiting fellowships at the Australia National University, Queen Mary University of London, Kings College London and the University of Oxford.

From 2014-17 he was editor of the European Journal of Political Theory, and since 2017 has been editor of Political Studies with Andrew Hindmoor, Hayley Stevenson and Charles Pattie.

He was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2022 for a project ‘Post-Liberalism: A Realist Theory of Moral Practice’, which will run February 2023 – September 2024.

Research interests

Realist Political Thought
Liberal thought and its Critics
Truth and Politics
Plato
Nietzsche

Publications

Books

Sleat M (2015) . Manchester University Press.
Sleat M (2013) Liberal Realism: A Realist Theory of Liberal Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Sleat M (2013) . 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) . Political Studies, 71(2), 279-294.
Sleat M (2021) . 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) . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 10-27.
Sleat M (2018) . Review of International Studies, 44(2), 324-342.
Hall E & Sleat M (2017) . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 20(3), 276-290.
Sleat M (2016) . Social Philosophy and Policy, 33(1-2), 252-272.
Sleat M (2016) . Journal of International Political Theory, 12(2), 169-184.
Sleat M (2016) . Political Studies, 64(1), 27-41.
Sleat M (2016) . International Politics, 53(1), 67-82.
Sleat M (2015) . Social Theory and Practice: an international and interdisciplinary journal of social philosophy, 41(2), 230-252.
Sleat M (2015) . Juncture, 21(4), 305-310.
Rossi E & Sleat M (2014) . Philosophy Compass, 9(10), 689-701.
Sleat M (2014) . 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.
Sleat M (2013) . European Journal of Political Theory, 12(4), 347-367.
Sleat M (2013) . Contemporary Politics, 19(2), 131-145.
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) . Political Theory, 40(5), 650-656.
Sleat M (2011) . Review of Politics, 73(3), 469-496.
Sleat M (2010) . European Journal of Political Theory, 9(4), 485-503.
Sleat M (2007) . INQUIRY, 50(3), 288-305.
Sleat M (2007) . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 3(10), 389-398.
Sleat M (2006) . 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 () . European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, V(2).
Sleat M () . European Journal of Philosophy.

Chapters

Sleat M (2019) , The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi (pp. 185-201). Springer International Publishing
Sleat M (2018) , 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) , 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) . Perspectives on Politics, 20(2), 707-708.
Sleat M (2021) . European Journal of Political Theory, 20(4), 804-811.
Sleat M (2017) . 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) . Philosophical Investigations, 30(1), 97-100.

Other

Stevenson H, Hindmoor A, Pattie C & Sleat M (2017) . Political Studies, 65(3), 533-534.
Rossi E, Sleat M & Jubb R (2016) . European Journal of Political Theory, 15(4), 375-376.
Rossi E, Sleat M & Jubb R (2014) . European Journal of Political Theory, 13(4), 385-387.

Preprints

Rossi E & Sleat M () .

Research group

Political Theory

Grants

Leverhulme Research Fellowship – ‘Post-Liberalism: A Critique’ (Feb. 2023 – Sept. 2024)
British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship - 'The Ethics of Cyberwar' (Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2015)

PhD Supervision

Recent supervision:

Andrew Leary - Realism and Egalitarianism
Carlo Cordasco - Rethinking Spontaneous Order: Norms, Institutions and Legitimacy (completed 2019)
Janosch Prinz – Political Realism and Critical Theory (completed 2015)

I would be happy to supervise research in the following broad areas:

Realist political thought
Contemporary liberal theory
Challenges to liberalism