David Schmidtz
Philosophy
University of Arizona
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2016Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic
2016-20
Visiting Scholar
2016-21
Distinguished Fellow
2012Editor in Chief
2008Director
2007Kendrick Professor of Philosophy
College of Management, Arizona
Political Economy, Kings’ College London
Political Economy, George Mason University
Social Philosophy & Policy
Arizona Center for Philosophy of Freedom
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Arizona
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2016
Visiting Scholar
2015
National Scholar
2014
John Stuart Mill Professor
2012-13
Julian Simon Fellow
2007
Visiting Professor
2000
Visiting Scholar
1999
Visiting Scholar
1998-2007
Professor (joint in Economics)
1995-98
Assoc. Prof. (joint in Economics)
1994-95
Assoc. Prof.
1992-93
Yale sabbatical & Visiting Scholar
1991-94
Assoc. Prof.
1990-91
Yale Morse Fellow & Visiting Scholar
1988-91
Assistant Prof.
1985-87
Research Assistant
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Philosophy and Economics, Hamburg U
Property & Environment Research Center
Florida State College of Law
UBC (Centre for Applied Ethics)
Social Philosophy & Policy Center
Arizona
Arizona
Bowling Green
Kansas State
Yale
UNC-Chapel Hill
Yale
Arizona (Economic Science Laboratory)
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
1988
M.A.
1987
M.A.
1985
B.A.
1983
B.Sc.
1982
Philosophy
Economics
Philosophy
Philosophy
General Studies
U of Arizona
U of Arizona
U of Arizona
U of Saskatchewan
U of Calgary
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Ph.D. TOPIC
Walter Glannon 1995 free will
Lainie Ross
1996 justice for children
Linda Radzik
1997 normativity
Steve Scalet
1999 liberal justice
Rhonda Smith 2000 self-respect
Matt Zwolinski 2003 separateness of persons
Cara Nine
2005 morality of borders
Jason Brennan 2006 moral theorizing
Matt Bedke
2007 normativity
Chris Brown
2008 Kantian virtue
Chris Freiman 2010 moral theory & psychology
Dan Silvermint 2012 oppression
John Thrasher
2014 social contract (co-chair Gaus)
Keith Hankins 2015 moral luck
Dan Shahar
2016 environmentalism
Sameer Bajaj
2017 liberalism (co-chair Christiano)
Greg Robson
2018 political realism
SERVICE
Intern’l Advisory Board (2016-22)
Senior Fellow (2008- )
Grand Jury (March-June 2011)
School Board (2008-14)
Program Committee (2008-11)
President (2008)
EMPLOYMENT
Canada Research Chair, Calgary
Bucksbaum Prof, Chicago (Clinical Ethics)
Assoc Prof, Texas A&M
Professor, U Maryland-Baltimore
Asst Prof, Air Force Academy
Professor, U of San Diego
Senior Lecturer, University College, Cork
Flanagan Chair, Georgetown
Assoc Prof, U of British Columbia
Asst Prof, National U of Singapore
Asst Prof, William & Mary
Asst Prof, UConn
Lecturer, Monash University
Asst Prof, Chapman U
Doctoral candidate
Doctoral candidate
Doctoral candidate
European Research Council on Corruption
Fraser Institute (repository.upenn.edu/think_tanks/)
Pima County Superior Court
BASIS High Schools
APA, Pacific Division
American Society for Value Inquiry
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BOOKS*
Schmidtz, & D. Shahar, editors, Environmental Ethics, 3rd ed. Oxford (2017) under contract.
Schmidtz & H. Brighouse, Markets in Education, Oxford (2017) under contract.
J. Brennan, B. Van der Vossen, & Schmidtz, eds, Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, Routledge (2017) in press.
Schmidtz & C. Pavel, editors, Oxford Handbook of Freedom, Oxford (2017) in press.
MacMillan Handbook of Environmental Ethics, editor. Cengage (2016).
C. Johnson, R. Lusch, & Schmidtz, Ethics, Economy, and Entrepreneurship, Sagent Learning Systems (2016).
Schmidtz & J. Thrasher, eds. Creating Wealth: Ethical & Economic Perspectives, 2nd ed. Cognella (2012).
Schmidtz & E. Willott, eds, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works, 2nd ed. Oxford (2011).
Creating Wealth: Ethical & Economic Perspectives, editor. Cognella (2011).
Schmidtz & J. Brennan. A Brief History of Liberty, Blackwell (2010).
Person, Polis, Planet, Oxford (2008).
Elements of Justice, Cambridge (2006).
Schmidtz & E. Willott, editors, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works, Oxford (2002).
Robert Nozick, editor. Cambridge (2002).
Schmidtz & R. Goodin, Social Welfare & Individual Responsibility, Cambridge (1998).
Rational Choice & Moral Agency. Princeton (1995).
The Limits of Government: An Essay on the Public Goods Argument. Westview (1991).
PEER REVIEWED
“Are Price Controls Fair?” Supreme Court Economic Review 23 (2016) 221-33.
“Nonideal Theory: What It Is and What It Needs To Be,” Ethics 121 (2011) 772-96.
“When Justice Matters,” Ethics 117 (2007) 433-59.
“How To Deserve,” Political Theory 30 (2002) 774-99.
“A Place For Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Philosophical Issues (Noûs annual supplement) 11 (2001) 148-71.
“Natural Enemies,” Environmental Ethics 22 (2000) 397-408.
“Diminishing Marginal Utility,” Journal of Value Inquiry 34 (2000) 263-72.
“Islands In a Sea of Obligation: An Essay on the Duty to Rescue,” Law & Philosophy 19 (2000) 683-705.
“Are All Species Equal?” Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (1998) 57-67.
“When Preservationism Doesn’t Preserve,” Environmental Values 7 (1997) 327-39.
“Choosing Ends,” Ethics 104 (1994) 226-51.
“Rationality Within Reason,” Journal of Philosophy 89 (1992) 445-66.
“Justifying the State,” Ethics 101 (1990) 89-102.
“When is Original Appropriation Required?” Monist 73 (1990) 504-18.
“Charles Parsons on the Liar Paradox,” Erkenntnis 32 (1990) 419-22.
Critical Notice: “Scheffler’s Hybrid Theory of the Right,” Noûs 24 (1990) 622-27.
R. Isaac, Schmidtz, J. Walker, “Assurance Problems in a Laboratory Market,” Public Choice 62 (1989) 217-36.
“Contractarianism Without Foundations,” Philosophia 19 (1989) 461-70.
“Public Goods & Political Authority,” Philosophical Papers (1988) 185-91.
“Pettit’s 'Free Riding & Foul Dealing',” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66 (1988) 230-33.
Tom Dufner & Schmidtz, “The Tickle Defense Defense,” Philosophical Studies 54 (1988) 383-86.
“Freedom in the Best of all Worlds: 3 Replies to Leibniz,” American Journal of Theology & Phil 9 (1988) 187-93.
“Deterrence & Criminal Attempts,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (1987) 615-24.
“Contracts & Public Goods,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 10 (1987) 475-503.
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Not included: Schmidtz-edited issues of Social Philosophy & Policy published by Cambridge as stand-alone collections.
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NOT REFEREED
J. Barney & Schmidtz, “Behind Every Great Fortune Is a Great Crime?” Performance & Progress Two, ed. S. Ragnan.
Oxford (2017) essay written and volume in progress.
“Theory and Practice,” Research Methods in Analytical Political Theory, ed. A. Blau. Cambridge (2017) in press.
“Ideal Theory,” Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice, ed. S. Olsaretti. Oxford (2017) in press.
“Public Choice As Political Philosophy,” Review of Austrian Economics 30 (2017) in press
“After Solipsism,” Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics 6 (2016) 145-65.
“Ecological Justice,” MacMillan Handbook of Environmental Ethics, ed. D. Schmidtz. Cengage (2016) 221-42.
“A Realistic Political Ideal,” Social Philosophy & Policy 33 (2016) 1-10.
“Environmental Ethics,” Sources and Methodologies, ed. Don Borchert. MacMillan Cengage (2016) 259-72.
“Adam Smith on Freedom,” Princeton Guide To Adam Smith, ed. R. Hanley. Princeton (2016) 208-27.
“Corruption,” Performance & Progress: Essays on Capitalism, Business, & Society, ed. S. Ragnan. Oxford (2015) 49-64.
Holt, Johnson, Schmidtz, “Prisoner’s Dilemma Experiments,” Prisoner’s Dilemma, ed. M. Pederson. CUP (2015) 243-64.
w/ J. Thrasher, “The Virtues of Justice,” Virtue and Vice, ed. K. Timpe. Oxford (2015) 59-74.
Thrasher & Schmidtz, “Bankers, Vampires, Organ Sellers: Whom Can You Trust?” Commerce & Community,
ed. R. Garnett. Routledge (2014) 336-41.
“Hayek,” Stanford On-Line Encyclopedia (2012) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/friedrich-hayek/
w/ C. Freiman, “Nozick,” Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, ed. Estlund. Oxford (2012) 411-28.
“Property,” Oxford Handbook: History of Political Theory, ed. G. Klosko. Oxford (2011) 599-610.
“Property and Justice,” Social Philosophy & Policy 27 (2010) 79-100.
S. Scalet & Schmidtz, “Inequality, Poverty, & Social Capital,” Amartya Sen, ed. C. Morris. CUP (2009) 170-90.
“Property,” Encyclopedia of Environmental Philosophy, ed. Callicott. Macmillan (2008).
“Virtues, Complexity, & the Limits of Markets,” Research in the History of Economic
Thought, 25 (2007) 25-32.
w/ E. Willott, “Varieties of Overconsumption,” Ethics, Place, & Environment, issue honoring M. Sagoff, 9 (2006) 351-65.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. D. Borchert. Macmillan (2nd ed: 2006).
3 Entries: Philosophy of Economics; Nozick; Egoism (bibliography only; text by J. Narveson)
“What We Deserve, How We Reciprocate,” Journal of Ethics, issue honoring James Rachels, 9 (2005) 435-64.
M. Zwolinski & Schmidtz, “Virtue Ethics & Repugnant Conclusions,” Environmental Virtue Ethics, ed. P. Cafaro &
R. Sandler. Rowman & Littlefield (2005) 107-17.
“History & Pattern,” Social Philosophy & Policy, 22 (2005) 148-77.
Schmidtz “Postscript On Life & Death,” Life, Death, & Meaning, ed. D. Benatar. Rowman & Littlefield (2004) 106-08.
w/ S. Wright, “What Nozick Did For Decision Theory,” The American Philosophers, ed. French & Wettstein, Midwest
Studies in Philosophy 28 (2004) 282-94.
w/ E. Willott, “Reinventing the Commons: An African Case Study,” University of Cal Davis Law Review 36 (2003) 203-32.
w/ E. Willott, “Tragedy of the Commons,” Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics, ed. R. Frey & C. Wellman.
Blackwell (2003) 662-73.
“Equal Respect & Equal Shares,” Social Philosophy & Policy 19 (2002) 244-74.
“The Language of Ethics,” Ethical Dilemmas in the Water Industry, ed. Cheryl Davis, Washington, DC: American
Water Works Association (2001) 3-16.
S. Scalet & Schmidtz, “State, Civil Society, & Classical Liberalism,” Civil Society & Government, ed. N. Rosenblum.
Princeton (2001) 26-47.
“A Survey of Ecological Economics,” Economics & Philosophy 15 (1999) 152-59.
w/ T. Palmer, & S. Scalet, “The Resources of Civil Society,” Revista Argentina de Teoria Juridica 1 (2006) 1-25.
“Finders, Keepers?” Advances in Austrian Economics 5 (1998) 277-89.
“Guarantees,” Social Philosophy & Policy 14 (1997) 1-19.
Linda Radzik & Schmidtz, “Contested Commodities,” Law & Philosophy 16 (1997) 603-16.
“Self-Interest: What’s In It For Me?” Social Philosophy & Policy 14, #1 (1997) 107-21.
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Critical Notice: “Steiner’s Essay on Rights,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 26 (1996) 283-302.
Lainie Ross & Schmidtz, “Spheres of Political Order,” Nomos 38 (1996) 438-53.
“The Institution of Property,” Social Philosophy & Policy 11 (1994) 42-62.
“The Institution of Morality,” Nomos 36 (1994) 228-43.
“Reasons for Altruism,” Social Philosophy & Policy 10 (1993) 52-68.
KNOWN REPRINTS AND TRANSLATIONS*
“Public Choice As Political Philosophy,” revised and reprinted as “Bastiat and the Origins of Political Economy,” in
Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (2017) in press.
“A Realistic Political Ideal,” in Mandarin, Ideal Theory, ed. Yong Li, China Social Sciences Research Press (2017).
“How Many Principles?” (from Elements of Justice) in Russian, Philosophical Descriptions, Altai State Press (2016).
Rational Choice and Moral Agency: 2015, revised and published in print & Kindle formats by Sagent Labs.
“What Teachers Owe Students” (from Markets In Education) reprinted in Italian translation, Il Mulino (2015) 403-16.
“Hayek,” reprinted in:
• Polish translation, Logos i Ethos (2016) status unknown.
• Friedrich Hayek & Cold War Liberalism, ed. J. Shearmur. Seoul: Asan Institute (2017).
• 2000 word excerpt, Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts, ed. S. Cahn, 3rd ed. Oxford (2015) 857-60.
“The Language of Ethics,” Oxford Handbook of Value Theory, ed. Hirose & Olson. Oxford (2015) 381-98.
Person, Polis, Planet
• Mandarin translation by Yong Li for Shangai People’s Publishing House (2016).
“Virtue Ethics & Repugnant Conclusions,” by M. Zwolinski & Schmidtz, reprinted in
• Reason, Value, and Respect, ed. M. Timmons & R. Johnson. Oxford (2015) 178-93.
• Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics, ed. Dan Russell. Cambridge (2013) 221-39.
“Smith on Freedom,” Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (2013) 371-90.
Brief History of Liberty, by Schmidtz & J. Brennan
• Italian translation, Torino: IBL Libri (2013).
• Turkish translation by Bican Sahin, Ankara: Liberte Publications (2012).
“History & Pattern,” reprinted in:
• 6000-word excerpt, Oxford Classics of Political Theory, ed. J. Levy, New York: OUP (2017).
• 1000-word excerpt, Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. M. Gibbons, West Sussex: Wiley (2014).
“Taking Responsibility,” (from Social Welfare & Individual Responsibility) reprinted in Distributive Justice, ed. Julian
Lamont. Ashgate (2012) 111-32.
“Reinventing the Commons,” by Schmidtz & Willott, in Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 24 (2012) 78-85.
“Islands In a Sea of Obligation,” in Questions of Life & Death, ed. C. Morris. Oxford (2011): 84-96.
“The Right to Distribute” (from Elements of Justice) reprinted in Anarchy, State, & Utopia Reappraised, ed. J.
Meadowcroft & R. Bader. Cambridge (2011): 197-229.
“Conceptions of Freedom,” (from Brief History of Liberty) reprinted in:
• Consider, with reply by Elizabeth Anderson. University of Michigan 24 (2010): p. 1.
• Cato Unbound, on-line journal, lead article (March, 2010). With reply by Philip Pettit.
“Property and Justice,” reprinted as “Functional Property and Real Justice” in:
• Liberal Düsünce, Turkish translation, 67 (2012): 169-84.
• European Liberal Forum, German translation. Academia Verlag (2010). 1-17.
• Revista Argentina de Teoria Juridica, 11 (2010) English and Spanish. On line journal.
• Property Rights in Central Europe. Naumann Foundation (2009) 5-21.
“Equal Respect & Equal Shares,” reprinted in
• Arguing About Political Philosophy, 2nd ed. M. Zwolinski. Routledge (2014) 528-52.
• Arguing About Political Philosophy, ed. M. Zwolinski. Routledge (2009) 495-514.
“Property,” 2000 words, Encyclopedia of Environmental Philosophy, ed. Callicott & Frodeman. Macmillan (2009) 184-87.
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Not included:
(1) essays reprinted in Schmidtz-edited collections;
(2) articles in Social Philosophy & Policy that Cambridge reprinted as stand-alone anthologies.
Note: to minimize redundancy, multiple reprintings are gathered together and listed chronologically from 1 st reprinting.
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“Tragedy of the Commons,” by Schmidtz & Willott, reprinted in:
• International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. H. Lafollette. Blackwell (2013) 198-205.
• Slovakian translation. 1100 word excerpt, Conservative Letters, Konzervativny Institut (2012).
• 2200 excerpt, Encyclopedia of Environmental Philosophy, ed. Callicott & Frodeman. Macmillan (2009) 322-25.
Elements of Justice
• Russian translation by Leonid Nikonov for Nestor Publishing (2017).
• Chinese translation by Li Junpeng for China Social Sciences Press (2017).
• Czech translation (Prvky Spravedlnosti) by Josef Sima for Dokoran Publishing (2016).
• Romanian translation by T. Glodeanu & I Sterpan for Edituras Humanitas Publishing House (2012).
• Turkish translation by Hayrettin Ösler for Liberte Publications (2010).
• Portuguese translation by William Lakes for Martins-Fontes Press (2009).
“Separateness, Suffering, & Moral Theory,” (from Person, Polis, Planet), reprinted in Singer Under Fire, ed. J.
Schaler. Open Court (2009) 429-54.
“Are All Species Equal?” reprinted in
• Doing Ethics, ed. L. Vaughn. 4th ed. Norton (2016) 480-87.
• Introducing Ethics, ed. McBrayer & Markie. Oxford (2013) 389-97.
• Doing Ethics, ed. L. Vaughn. 3th ed. Norton (2013) 516-523.
• Contemporary Moral Arguments, ed. L. Vaughn. 2nd ed. Oxford (2012) 641-48.
• Ethics, Policy, and Environment, retrospective issue on this article, with 9 commentaries, 14 (2011) 127-38.
• Oxford Handbook on Ethics & Animals, ed. Beauchamp & Frey. Oxford (2010) 628-40.
• Doing Ethics, ed. L. Vaughn. 2nd ed. Norton (2010) 527-34.
• Contemporary Moral Arguments, ed. L. Vaughn. Oxford (2009) 659-67.
• Doing Ethics, ed. L. Vaughn. Norton (2008) 389-96.
“How To Deserve,” reprinted in:
• Routledge Companion to Political Philosophy, ed. D’Agostino & Gaus (2012) 433-43.
• The Online Political Science Journal 1 (2008) 1-13.
“Guarantees,” reprinted in:
• The Emergence of Norms, ed. I. Sterpan. U of Bucharest Press (2016).
• Liberal Düsünce, 45 (2007) 145-64.
“When Inequality Matters,” (from Elements of Justice) reprinted as lead article in Cato Unbound, on-line journal
(March 2006). With reply by Peter Singer.
“A Place For Cost-Benefit Analysis,” reprinted in:
• Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics, ed. B. Hale & A. Light (2017) in press.
• Philosophy, Politics, & Economics, ed. Anomaly, Sayre-McCord, Munger. Oxford (2015) 412-26.
• Ethics in Practice, 4th edition, ed. H. Lafollette. Blackwell (2014) 602-10.
• Public Ethics ed. R. Bellamy & A. Palumbo. Ashgate (2010) 341-64.
• Environmental Ethics, 5th edition, ed. L. & P. Pojman. Wadsworth (2008) 628-42.
• Ethics in Practice, 3rd edition, ed. H. Lafollette. Blackwell (2006) 669-79.
• Environmental Ethics, 4th edition, ed. L. Pojman. Wadsworth (2005) 568-79.
“Rationality Within Reason,” Satisficing & Maximizing, ed. M. Byron. Cambridge (2004) 30-58.
“Because It’s Right,” (from Rational Choice & Moral Agency) reprinted in:
• Reasons To Be Moral Revisited,” special issue of Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2010) 63-95.
• Morality & Self-Interest, ed. P. Bloomfield. Oxford (2008) 79-101.
• Spanish translation, Revista Argentina de Teoria Juridica (2002) electronic journal.
“Natural Enemies,” reprinted:
• Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, ed. A. Thompson & S. Gardiner, NY: Oxford (2016) 517-27.
• Humane Studies Review 13, #2 (2001) electronic journal.
“The Meanings of Life,” reprinted in:
• Life, Death, & Meaning, 3rd ed. D. Benatar. Rowman & Littlefield (2016).
• Hebrew translation, 500 word excerpt, incorporated in lead article on meaning in life ‫( גלובס‬August 2015) 22-28.
• Life, Death, & Meaning, 2nd ed. D. Benatar. Rowman & Littlefield (2010) 93-113.
• Life, Death, & Meaning, ed. D. Benatar. Rowman & Littlefield (2004) 91-111.
• If I Should Die, ed. L. Rouner. Notre Dame (2001) 170-88.
“Choosing Ends,” Varieties of Practical Reasoning, ed. E. Millgram. MIT Press (2001) 237-57.
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Social Welfare & Individual Responsibility
• Korean translation, Thinkville: Seoul (2017) in press.
• Spanish translation, Madrid: Ediciones AKAL (2004).
• Spanish translation, Madrid: Cambridge University Press (2000).
“Moral Dualism,” (from Rational Choice & Moral Agency), Modeling Rationality, Morality, & Evolution, ed. P.
Danielson. Oxford (1998) 255-79.
“The Institution of Property,” reprinted in:
• Philosophy, Politics, & Economics, ed. Anomaly, Sayre-McCord, & Munger. Oxford (2015) 147-59.
• Arguing About Political Philosophy, 2nd edition. Ed. M. Zwolinski. Routledge (2014) 374-87.
• Liberal Düsünce, lead article in a double issue on Property 53-54 (2009) 5-23.
• Arguing About Political Philosophy, ed. M. Zwolinski. Routledge (2009) 308-19.
• Spanish translation, Elementos De Análysis Económico Del Derecho, ed. H Spector. Lead article in a textbook
on economic analysis of law. Buenos Aires: Rubinzal-Culzoni (2004) 27-56.
• The Economics of Property Rights, ed. S. Pejovich. Edward Elgar (2001) 456-76.
• Common Law & the Environment, ed. R. Meiners & A. Morriss. Rowman & Littlefield (2000) 109-29.
• Liberal Institutions, Economic Constitutional Rights, & the Role of Organizations, ed. K. Ladeur, BadenBaden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (1997) 31-51.
“Justifying the State,” reprinted in:
• Mandarin translation, Political Authority, ed. Shinggui Mao, Zhejiang University Press (2016) status unknown.
• For & Against the State, ed. Sanders & Narveson. Rowman & Littlefield (1996) 81-97.
“Reasons for Altruism,” reprinted in:
• Philosophy, Politics, & Economics, ed. J. Anomaly, G. Sayre-McCord, M. Munger. Oxford (2015) 44-55.
• The Gift: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ed. A. Komter. Amsterdam University Press (1996) 164-75.
“Observing the Unobservable,” (from Limits of Government) On the Reliability of Economic Models: Essays in the
Epistemology of Economics, ed. D. Little. Kluwer (1995) 147-72.
SAMPLE REVIEWS
Debra Satz, Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale. Journal of Philosophy 108 (2011) 219-23.
Serena Olsaretti, Liberty, Desert, and the Market. Philosophical Review 116 (2007) 128-31.
Mark Sagoff, Price, Principle, and the Environment. Conservation Biology 19 (2005) 1673-74.
Margaret Gilbert, Sociality & Responsibility. Mind (2001) 756-59.
Charles Taylor, Philosophical Arguments. Ethics 109 (1999) 461-464.
SAMPLE TALKS
Conference on Person, Polis, Planet (with me as commentator for 4 sessions) Wuhan University, 2016.
“Ideal Theory for a Political World,” lead lecture in a documentary series on The Return of Ethics, Moscow 2016
Phi Beta Kappa Lectures, nine campuses in spring 2015
“After Solipsism”
• Keynote speaker, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics workshop, Tucson 2015
• Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon 2014
Lectures on Markets in Education
• Hamburg University, 2014
• Pavia University, 2014
• Center for Ethics, Law, & Public Affairs, Warwick University, 2014
• Conference on Social Responsibility and the Division of Labor, Louvain, Belgium, 2013
• Presidential Address, American Society for Value Inquiry, APA, Philadelphia, 2008
• Stanford, 2008
“Corruption,” Society for Progress, Royal Society of London 2014
“Ideal Theory,” U of Michigan 2012
“Comment on Anderson,” Lindner Lecture, Oberlin College 2012
Team-Taught a short course on justice w/ Sam Freeman & Erin Kelly, Bogazici U, Istanbul 2012
“Hayek Against Justice”
• Asan Institute, Seoul 2013
• CEVRO Institute, Prague 2012
• CEQLS Institute in Bratislava and Zilina University, Slovak Republic, March 2012
• Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington November 2011
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• Center for Institutional Analysis & Development, Bucharest, September 2011
“Respect for Everything”
• Confronting Environmental Values, Oslo, June 2010
“Functional Property, Real Justice”
• Keynote address, 60th Anniversary of Turkish Democracy, Ankara, May 2010
• Keynote address, 20th Anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall, Berlin, November 2009
“The Right to Distribute,” King’s College London, January 2010.
Lectures on A Brief History of Liberty
• Australian National University, August 2009
• Galilee Colloquium, Israel, June 2008
• UCLA, March 2008
• Oxford University (Wolfson College), April 2007
Lectures on Elements of Justice
• National University of Singapore August 2009 (5 sessions, with discussions led by 5 commentators)
• Franciso Marroquin U, Guatemala City, October 2004 (6 sessions)
• Central Asian Resource Center, Almaty, Kazakhstan, July 2004 (6 sessions)
• Brown U, May 2004 (6 sessions)
• Georgia State U, March 2004 (6 sessions)
• U.S. Congressional Staffers Workshop, Washington, D.C., December 2002
• Australian National University, Canberra, July/August, 2002
• U of Michigan, March 2002.
• Panel on Ethics & Markets (w/Amitai Etzioni, Amy Gutmann, Frances. Fox Piven) Yale U, Dec. 1999
• U of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, July/August 1999
• U of Auckland, New Zealand, March 1998
“Reinventing the Commons: The Sabi Sand Game Preserve”
• Symposium on Environmental Law, U. Cal. Davis School of Law, April 2003
“The Institution of Property”
• Instituto Liberdade, Santiago, Chile, August 2005
• Symposium on Liberal Institutions, European U. School of Law, Florence, Italy, 1995
“The Meanings of Life”
• Keynote Speaker, Conference on Analytic Existentialism, U of Cape Town, August 2001
• Boston University Institute for Philosophy & Religion, December 1999
“Poverty, Foreign Aid, and Wildlife Preservation”
• Joint U.S. Congress/Senate Legislative Staff Breakfast, Washington, D.C. March 2001
“Environmental Conflict Resolution”
• United Nations Convocation, New York, January 2001
• Institute for Economic Affairs, London, June 1998
“Moral Theory and Everyday Life”
• Conference on Ethics In Everyday Life, U of Cape Town, South Africa, August 1999
“Reasons for Reasons”
• 3 universities: Chung Cheng U., Chen Chi U., U. of Taiwan, May 2000
4 Lectures on Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility
• Universidad Torcuato Di Tella School of Law, Buenos Aires, Sept. 1998
“The Authority of Instrumental Reason”
• Symposium on Language, Reasoning, and Cognition, CREA, Paris, June 1998
Invited Speaker, Symposium on Practical Reason
• American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, May 1998
“Beyond Economics: Questions of Fairness”
• Joint U.S. Congress/Senate Legislative Staff Workshop on Tax Reform, Baltimore, January 1998
“Environmental Justice”
• Conference on Justice & the Environment, U. of Melbourne, Australia, 1997
“Why Be Rational?”
• International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, Donastia, Spain, 1997
“Guarantees”
• 19th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, 1996
“When Preservationism Doesn’t Preserve”
• Conference on Environmental Ethics, Cortona, Italy, 1995
“Diminishing Marginal Utility”
• School of Business, UBC, Vancouver, 1995
• Hosted by Econ Dep’t/Econ Club/School of Business/MBA Assoc., Loyola U., New Orleans, 1995
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“Environmental Ethics and Property Law”
• Case Western Law School, 1994
Five lectures on Rational Choice and Moral Agency
• Hosted by Philosophy/Psychology/Accounting/Engineering/Management, U of Waterloo, 1993
“The Moral Evaluation of Institutions”
• Conference on Institutional Reform in Eastern Europe, Inter-University Center of Postgraduate Studies,
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 1990
“Experimental Philosophy”
• Conference on Le Liberalisme a L’Europenne, Universite D’Aix-Marseille, France, 1989
• Economic History Association, Harvard, 1988
COURSES TAUGHT
Introductory:
Upper Level:
Seminars:
Law School:
PHIL/ECON 205 (Ethics & Economic of Wealth Creation), PHIL 101 (Ethics, Economy, &
Entrepreneurship), Environmental Ethics, Ancient & Medieval Phil, Modern Phil,
Philosophy of Law, Metaethics, Decision Theory, Philosophy of Freedom, Ethical Entrepreneurship,
PPEL Capstone seminar
Nonideal Theory, Justice & Education (Hamburg), Feasibility (Hamburg Economics), Purpose of Moral
Theory, Welfare, Justice, Value in Nature, Why Be Moral? Equality, Hobbes, History of Liberty (George
Mason), Philosophy of Economics, Practical Reason, Social Norms, Diversity, Moral Theory & Practice
First year: Property (Florida State)
Upper year: Environmental Philosophy & Policy
KNOWN EDITORIAL BOARD ASSIGNMENTS
On Ethics & Economics monograph series (Rowman & Littlefield)
Economics and Philosophy 2003-2013
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