Academic Appointments
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Purdue University. 
    • Beginning August 2024. 
  • Assistant Professor of General Business, West Virginia University.
    • August 2022 to May 2024.
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park.
    • August 2017 to June 2022.
 
Other Roles
  • Affiliated Fellow, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
    • August 2017 to present.
  • Faculty Affiliate, Program on American Institutional Renewal (PAIR) at Purdue University.
    • August 2025 to present. 
  • Faculty Affiliate, Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought at Purdue University.
    • November 2025 to present.
  • Academic Director, Kendrick Center for an Ethical Economy at West Virginia University. 
    • August 2022 to May 2024. 
  • Director, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics major at the University of Maryland, College Park.
    • August 2019 to June 2022.
  • Faculty Affiliate, Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland, College Park.
    • August 2017 to June 2022.
 
Education     
  • Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Arizona, June 2017.
  • B.A., Philosophy and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, December 2012.
 
Publications
 
Books
  1. Political Meritocracy in the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press, 2025. 
  2. Secret Government: The Pathologies of Publicity. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
 
Journal Articles
  1. "Sortition and Cognitive Ability." Forthcoming in Politics, Philosophy & Economics. 
  2. "Legitimate Expectations in the Age of Innovation." Forthcoming in AI and Ethics. (with Jeffrey Carroll).
  3. "The Rationality of Affective Polarization." Forthcoming in Philosophy. (with Paul Wheatley).
  4. "Prosecuting Politicians." Forthcoming in Res Publica​. 
  5. ​​“Autonomy, Zoning, and Gentrification.” Forthcoming in Politics, Philosophy & Economics. 
  6. "Planning, Market Dynamism, and the Rule of Law." Forthcoming in Cosmos + Taxis​. 
  7. “Ideology vs. Collective Action.” Forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
  8. “There Is No Right to a Competent Electorate.” Forthcoming in Inquiry. (with Jeffrey Carroll). 
  9. “The Ethics of AI Automation: The Importance of Treating Like Cases Alike.” AI and Ethics 5: 3103-3113. (with Jeffrey Carroll).
  10. “Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life.” Journal of Business Ethics 197 (2025): 659-671. 
  11. "In Defense of Filibustering." Social Theory and Practice​ 51 (2025): 53-76.
  12. “Formal Models in Normative Political Theory.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 36 (2024): 256-274. (with Hun Chung). 
  13. “The Moral Status of Pecuniary Externalities.” Journal of Business Ethics 195 (2024): 121-132. (with Jeffrey Carroll).
  14. “The Demand and Supply of False Consciousness.” Social Philosophy & Policy 41 (2024): 203-222. 
  15. “In Defense of (Limited) Oligarchy.” Public Affairs Quarterly 37 (2023): 352-370. 
  16. “In Defense of Knavish Constitutions.” Public Choice 196 (2023): 141-156. 
  17. "Finding the Epistocrats." Episteme​ 20 (2023): 497-512.
  18. "We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth." Utilitas 34 (2022): 478-492.  
  19. "Reparations to the Privileged?" Journal of Applied Philosophy 39 (2022): 441-455. 
  20. "Does Equality Persist? Evidence from the Homestead Act." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 3 (2022): 215-241. (with Bryan Leonard). 
  21. “Lockeans against Labor Mixing.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 20 (2021): 251-272.  
  22. “When Public Reason Falls Silent: Liberal Democratic Justification versus the Administrative State.” Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 7 (2021): 161-193. (with Stephen G.W. Stich).
  23. “Secrecy and Transparency in Political Philosophy.” Philosophy Compass 16 (2021): e12733.
  24. “Diversity and Rights: a Social Choice-Theoretic Analysis of the Possibility of Public Reason.” Synthese 197 (2020): 839-865. (with Hun Chung).
  25. “Asymmetric Idealization and the Market Process.” Advances in Austrian Economics 25 (2020): 85-110.
  26. “The Future of Political Philosophy: Non-Ideal and West of Babel.” Review of Austrian Economics 33 (2020): 237-252.
  27. “Kant, Rawls, and the Possibility of Autonomy.” Social Theory and Practice 45 (2019): 613-635. 
  28. “Rawlsian Originalism.” Jurisprudence 10 (2019): 334-353. (with Alexander William Salter).
  29. “Public Reason’s Chaos Theorem.” Episteme 16 (2019): 200-219.  
  30. “The Supreme Court as the Fountain of Public Reason.” Legal Theory 24 (2018): 345-369.
  31. “Moral Diversity and Moral Responsibility.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4 (2018): 371-389. (with Robert H. Wallace).
  32. “Enough and as Good: a Formal Model of Lockean First Appropriation.” American Journal of Political Science 62 (2018): 682-694. (with Benjamin Ogden).
  33. “What We Choose, What We Prefer.” Synthese 195 (2018): 3321-3340.
  34. “Justice, Diversity, and the Well-Ordered Society.” The Philosophical Quarterly 67 (2017): 663-684.
  35. “Aggregating Out of Indeterminacy: Social Choice Theory to the Rescue.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 16 (2017): 210-232.
  36. “When Public Reason Fails Us: Convergence Discourse as Blood Oath.” American Political Science Review 110 (2016): 717-730. (with Stephen G.W. Stich).
  37. “The Irrelevance of the Impossibility of Pure Libertarianism.” Journal of Philosophy 112 (2015): 211-222. (with Stephen G.W. Stich).
  38. “Modeling the Individual for Constitutional Choice.” Constitutional Political Economy 26 (2015): 455-474. 
 
Book Chapters
  1. “Political Epistemology.” The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, edited by Ryan Muldoon and Fred D’Agostino: 726-736. Routledge, 2025. (with Aylon Manor). 
  2. “Public Choice and Political Equality.” Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Michael Bennett, Huub Brouwer, and Rutger Claassen: 67-84. Routledge, 2022. 
  3. “Justificatory Failures and Moral Entrepreneurs: a Hayekian Theory of Public Reason.” Exploring the Political Economy & Social Philosophy of F.A. Hayek, edited by Peter J. Boettke, Jayme S. Lemke, and Virgil Henry Storr: 79-99. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
  4. “Buchanan and Arrow on Impossibility, Democracy, and Market.” Exploring the Political Economy & Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan, edited by Paul Aligica, Christopher J. Coyne, and Stefanie Haeffele: 123-141. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
  5. “Rawls, Buchanan, and the Search for a Better Social Contract.” Exploring the Political Economy & Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan, edited by Paul Aligica, Christopher J. Coyne, and Stefanie Haeffele: 17-38. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
  6. “Rational Choice Theory.” Research Methods in Analytic Political Theory, edited by Adrian Blau: 217-242. Cambridge University Press, 2017. (with Gerald Gaus).
                      
Edited Volumes
  1. Political Process: New Perspectives on the Virginia and Bloomington Schools. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025. (co-edited with Donald J. Boudreaux and Christopher J. Coyne). 
  2. Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. (co-edited with Peter Boettke and Bobbi Herzberg).
 
Book Reviews
  1. Natasha Piano, Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science. Forthcoming in Philosophy & Public Affairs. 
  2. Adam Lovett, Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy. Forthcoming in Public Choice. 
  3. Stuart Vyse, The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to be Rational. In The Independent Review 29 (Summer 2024). 
  4. Nick Cowen, Neoliberal Social Justice: Rawls Unveiled. In Review of Austrian Economics 36 (2023): 493-496. 
  5. Eric Mack, Libertarianism (Key Concepts in Political Theory). In The Independent Review 26 (Winter 2021/2022). 
  6. Katrina Forrester, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy. In The New Rambler Reviewer: https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/philosophy/political-philosophy-and-the-search-for-the-possible.
  7. Michael Moehler, Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory. In Economics & Philosophy 35 (2019): 173-179.
  8. Cristina Bicchieri, Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms. In Review of Austrian Economics 31 (2018): 387-390.
  9. Christopher Freiman, Unequivocal Justice. In Public Choice 173 (2017): 373-376.               

​Popular Writings
  1. “John Locke on Commercial Society.” In Liberty Matters. Link: https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/liberty-matters-john-locke-on-commercial-society-september-2021. 
  2. “Excluding the Antidemocratic is Antidemocratic.” In Cato Unbound: A Journal of Debate. Link: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2020/12/16/brian-kogelmann/excluding-antidemocratic-antidemocratic.
  3. “Thinking Small about the Ideal Society.” In the London School of Economics’ theForum. Link: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/thinking-small-ideal-society/.
  4. “Frank Underwood Gives the Ideal Society a Reality Check.” House of Cards and Philosophy, edited by James Edward Hackett: 31-41. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
 
Selected Awards
  • Bradley Foundation Fellowship (2022-2023)
  • Institute for Humane Studies Summer Research Fellowship (2017)
  • William McMeekin Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies (2015-2016, 2016-2017)
  • Adam Smith Fellow at the Mercatus Center (2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017)  
  • Bernard Marcus Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies (2013-2014, 2014-2015)
  • CGK Fellow at the Arizona Freedom Center (2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017)
  • Dorothy Grover Award for best undergraduate philosophy major (2012)
 
Academic Talks
  • Author meets critics session on Amit Ron’s and Abraham Singer’s book, Everyone’s Business: What Companies Owe Society.
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, November 13-15, 2025.
  • “Paying Off Populists.”
    • PPEL in the Global South Conference at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India, December 11-14, 2025. 
    • Workshop in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, October 30, 2025.
    • Research Workshop at the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, October 3, 2025.
  • Roundtable discussion on the ethics of pecuniary externalities with Richard Endörfer and Philip Trammell.
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in London, UK, July 16-18, 2025.
  • “Leave the Left Behind Places Behind.”
    • Philosophy, Politics & Economics at the Frontier: Institutional Diversity & Social Dynamism at SUNY Buffalo in Buffalo, NY, June 17-18, 2025. 
  • Author meets critics session on Alexander Guerrero’s book, Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections.
    • American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 16-19, 2025.
  • Author meets critics session on my book, Secret Government: The Pathologies of Publicity.
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, November 14-16, 2024.
  • “Against the New Industrial Policy.”
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, November 14-16, 2024. 
  • "Creative Destruction and Community.”
    • Markets & Society Conference in Falls Church, VA, October 11-14, 2024. 
  • “The Ethics of Zoning.”
    • Purdue Philosophy Department Colloquium in West Lafayette, Indiana, March 6, 2024. 
  • “Political Selection.”
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, November 1-3, 2023.
  • “What (if Anything) Can Justify Zoning?”
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, November 1-3, 2023. 
  • “The Demand for Ideology.”
    • Social Philosophy & Policy Conference on Ideology in Tucson, AZ, December 1-4, 2022. 
  • “Formal Models in Normative Political Theory.”
    • Uses of Formal Theory Workshop at the Pearson Institute at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, October 27-28, 2022. 
  • “In Defense of Filibustering.”
    • Workshop in Heterodox Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, April 9, 2022.
    • University of Virginia Philosophy Department Colloquium in Charlottesville, VA, January 28, 2022.
  • “Public Choice and Political Equality.”
    • Wealth and Power Workshop at Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands, June 10-12, 2021.
  • “Asymmetric Idealization and the Market Process.”
    • Philosophy, Politics, and Austrian Economics Workshop at Brown University in Providence, RI, June 27-29, 2019.
  • “On Seeing Justice.”
    • The Future of Public Reason Workshop at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, May 23-24, 2019.
    • University of North Carolina Philosophy Department Colloquium in Chapel Hill, NC, February 11, 2019.
  • “Polycentric Public Reason.”
    • PPE Research Seminar at Brown University in Providence, RI, March 7, 2019.
    • Centre for the Study of Governance & Society at the King’s College in London, UK, December 4, 2018.
  • “Non-Ideal Political Philosophy and the Future of PPE.”
    • The Austrian School of Economics Workshop at the Wirth Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, October 11-13, 2018.
  • “Polarization and Deliberation with Probabilistic Preferences.”
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, March 15-17, 2018.
  • “The Calculus of the Moral Community.”
    • Freedom Center Colloquium at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, April 26, 2018.
    • Workshop in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, April 19, 2018.
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, March 15-17, 2018.
  • “Formal Models in Political Philosophy.”
    • Political Institutions and Political Behavior Workshop at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, December 11, 2017.
  • “The Backwards Social Contract.”
    • Institute for Humane Studies Summer Research Fellowship Conference in Arlington, VA, August 18-20, 2017.
  • “Enough and as Good: a Formal Model of Lockean First Appropriation.”
    • Institute for Humane Studies Summer Research Fellowship Conference in Arlington, VA, May 19-21, 2017.
  • “Democracy in Search of Truth: a Formal Model of Strategic Communication and Public Reasoning.”
    • Midwestern Political Science Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, April 6-9, 2017.
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, March 16-19, 2017.
  • “What We Choose, What We Prefer.”
    • University of Maryland Philosophy Department Colloquium in College Park, MD, February 10, 2017.
  • “Impossibility and Market.”
    • Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., November 19-21, 2016.
  • “The Priority of the Market.”
    • Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting in Columbus, OH, October 20-22, 2016.
    • Institute for Human Studies Summer Graduate Research Colloquium at Towson University in Towson, MD, July 7-10, 2016.
  • “The Possibility of the Reason of a Democratic People: Towards an Epistemic Political Liberalism.”
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Liberty Workshop hosted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, June 5-10, 2016.
  • “Public Reason’s Chaos Theorem.”
    • Publishing Workshop for Young Scholars at Public Choice Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 10-12, 2016.
  • “Diversity and Rights: The Possibility of Public Reason.”
    • Public Choice Society Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 10-12, 2016.
  • “When Public Reason Fails Us: Convergence Discourse as Blood Oath.”
    • MANCEPT Theories of Public Reason Workshop at the University of Manchester in Manchester, UK, September 1-3, 2015.
  • “Aggregating Out of Indeterminacy: Social Choice Theory to the Rescue.”
    • Freedom and Wellbeing Workshop hosted by the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, June 19-21, 2015.
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Liberty Workshop hosted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, June 7-12, 2015.
  • “Modeling the Individual for Constitutional Choice.”
    • Public Choice Society Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, March 12-15, 2015.
  • “Modus Vivendi Liberalism, Courts, and Bargaining.”
    • Yale Law School Doctoral Scholarship Conference at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT, November 14-15, 2014.
  • “Justice and Action-Guidance.”
    • Harvard Graduate Political Theory Conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, October 31 to November 1, 2014.
  • “Risk Aversion in the Constitutional Convention.”
    • Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership at McMaster University in Burlington, Canada, May 28-29, 2014.
 
Popular Talks
  • “The Ethics of Creative Destruction.”
    • Lecture at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN, November 11, 2025.
  • “How Should Classical Liberals Think About Zoning?”
    • Freedom Week hosted by the Institute for Liberal Studies in Montreal, Canada, August 10-16, 2025.
  • “Creative Destruction”
    • Freedom Week hosted by the Institute for Liberal Studies in Montreal, Canada, August 10-16, 2025.
  • “Mill and the Harm Principle.”
    • Freedom Week hosted by the Institute for Liberal Studies in Montreal, Canada, August 10-16, 2025. 

Teaching
  • POL352: Modern Political Ideologies, Spring 2026
  • PHIL240/POL229: Social and Political Philosophy, Spring 2025, Spring 2026
  • PHIL540: Political Epistemology: Partisanship, Polarization, and Beyond, Spring 2025
  • SCLA101B: Transformative Texts for Business, Fall 2024. 
  • BETH289: Foundations of Economic Growth, Spring 2024. 
  • ORGL310: Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making Skills, Fall 2023.
  • MIST357: Information Ethics, Spring 2023.
  • ECON521: History of Political Economy, Spring 2023, Spring 2024. 
  • DBA793: Diversity, Ethics, and Inclusion for Business, Winter 2022/2023.
  • PHPE408/PHIL408: Theories of Democracy, Fall 2021. 
  • PHIL808: Democratic Theory, Spring 2021. 
  • PHIL808: Democracy and Expertise, Fall 2019.
  • PHPE401/GVPT449: Social Philosophy and Political Economy, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022. 
  • HONR298: Hate Speech and Religious Toleration, Fall 2019.
  • PHIL445: Contemporary Political Philosophy, Spring 2019, Fall 2020.
  • PHIL808: Contractarianism, Spring 2018.
  • PHIL261: Philosophy of the Environment, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
  • PHIL245: Political and Social Philosophy I, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020.
 
Professional Service
Editorial Board: Public Affairs Quarterly; Social Theory and Practice​; Markets & Society.