Dr. Daniel Sharp

Daniel Sharp is an assistant professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Chair for Philosophy and Political Theory at LMU Munich. He completed his PhD in philosophy at New York University. His work focuses on moral and political questions about migration, citizenship, equality, and democracy.

Project at CAS

While at CAS, Daniel is working on a book project. The book, tentatively entitled the Moral Foundations of Citizenship, aims to develop a systematic theory of citizenship. Philosophers have neglected the distinctiveness of citizenship, a legal status that bundles together a variable range of important rights; as such, they have been unable to adequately explain the moral point of having such a status. This leaves citizenship on shaky foundations. The book defends a novel, pluralist account of the varied normative functions that citizenship serves, which can help provide a clear answer to the question, what citizenship is for? This account can help to diagnose citizenship’s pathologies, and to address questions about citizenship policy, such as who is entitled to citizenship, whether citizenship tests are permissible, and what is problematic about citizenship revocation. It may also help to critically answer recent critiques of citizenship, which direct attention to inegalitarian role citizenship plays at the global level, and can shed new light on the desirability of global citizenship.