Professor James Flynn
Emeritus Professor, Joint Department of Politics
Email jim.flynn@otago.ac.nz
Phone 64 3 479 9015
Prof Flynn has combined political and moral philosophy with psychology to clarify problems such as justifying humane ideals and whether it makes sense to rank races and classes by merit. Professor Flynn has been profiled in Scientific American and ran for the New Zealand Parliament in 1993 and 1996 as Alliance candidate for Dunedin North. Research Interests include Humane ideals and ideological debate; classics of political philosophy; race, class and IQ. He was Head of Department from 1967 to 1996.
Teaching
• PSYC 204 Justice, Race and Class
Publications
