Mark Tunick 
Professor of Political Science
Honors College, FAU
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter, FL 33458
HC 104 (office) | (561) 799-8670 (ph) | (561) 799-8602 (fax) | tunick@fau.edu

Recent publications (click titles for link to full text)

• Robbie, Klara, and Ethan: Replicability and the Moral Status of AI, Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy vol. 8 (2025) (online open access)
• Hegel's criticism of revenge: a defence, The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 8(2):15-35 (2024): online open access (published June, 2025).
• State authority, Parental authority, and the Rights of Mature Minors, Journal of Ethics 27:7-29 (2023), online open access via National Library of Medicine
• J.S. Mill's Puzzling Position on Prostitution and his Harm Principle, Philosophy 99(1):1-25 (January 2024) (online open access)
• Privacy at Great Cost: An Argument against Collecting and Storing DNA and Location Data and Other Mass Surveillance, Washington University Review of Philosophy 3:124-46 (2023) (online open access)
• J.S. Mill's Passage on Pimps and the Limits on Free Speech," Utilitas 34(4):392-408 (Dec. 2022) (online open access)
• Balancing Privacy and Free Speech: Unwanted Attention in the Age of Social Media (Routledge, 2015: re issued as online open-access in 2022)
• Religious Freedom and Toleration: A Liberal Pluralist Approach to Conflicts over Religious Displays, Journal of Church and State 64(2):280-300 (Spring 2022)(online open access)

I am a political theorist and teach courses on the history of political thought, law, government, and ethics, including courses on Constitutional law, Punishment, Privacy, the Ethics of Social Diversity, Government of the U.S., and A.I. Ethics. Students at the Honors College take three interdisciplinary team-taught critical inquiry seminars and I have taught several of these as well, with professors in chemistry, mathematics, literature, philosophy, psychology, history, and anthropology.
My research and publications focus on some key figures in the history of political philosophy--Hegel, Kant, Locke, and Mill. I apply their theories to topics of current importance, such as privacy, punishment, property rights, and the right to bear arms. I am currently working on AI ethics, parental vs state authority, parental responsibility for crimes of their children, and academic freedom.
At the Wilkes Honors College I have served both as Chair of Social Sciences and Associate Dean. Before joining the Honors College as one of its five founding faculty members I taught political theory and constitutional law at Stanford University.