Position Title
Research Associate
About
Paul Gomberg retired in 2014 as Professor of Philosophy from Chicago State University; in 2015 he came to Davis as Research Associate to write and to participate in Davis Group on Ethics and Related Subject (DaGERS) and in the philosophical community.
He has written How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice (Blackwell [now Wiley-Blackwell], 2007) and edited the anthology What Should I Believe? Philosophical Essays for Critical Thinking (Broadview, 2011).
Recent essays include “The Fallacy of Philanthropy” and “Dilemmas of Rawlsian Opportunity” both in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2002 and 2010 respectively), the chapter “Work” in The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice (2018), “Against Patriotism, For Internationalism: A Marxist Critique of Patriotism” in the Springer Handbook of Patriotism (2018), and “Proletarian Democracy: What Can We Learn from the Soviet Experience?” in The Politics and Ethics of Contemporary Work: Whither Work? Routledge 2022.
His book Anti-Racism as Communism was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2024.