Stephen Turner

Stephen Turner teaches philosophy at the University of South Florida, and is Director of the Center for Social and Political Thought. He has written extensively about Weber’s political thought, as well as about issues relating to democracy and science. His Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts takes up Schmittian themes about the applicability of the liberal model of political discussion in the face of the extensive role of expert knowledge in contemporary political decision-making. He has also written extensively about Hans J. Morgenthau.