Academic Appointments
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track), University of Maryland.
    • August 2017 to present.
 
Affiliations
  • Faculty Affiliate, Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland.
    • August 2017 to present.
  • 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.
 
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. Secret Government: The Pathologies of Publicity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
 
Journal Articles
  1. "Finding the Epistocrats." Forthcoming in Episteme​. 
  2. "Reparations to the Privileged?" Forthcoming in Journal of Applied Philosophy. 
  3. "Does Equality Persist? Evidence from the Homestead Act." Forthcoming in Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy. (with Bryan Leonard). 
  4. “Lockeans against Labor Mixing.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 20 (2021): 251-272.  
  5. “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).
  6. “Secrecy and Transparency in Political Philosophy.” Philosophy Compass 16 (2021): e12733.
  7. “Diversity and Rights: a Social Choice-Theoretic Analysis of the Possibility of Public Reason.” Synthese 197 (2020): 839-865. (with Hun Chung).
  8. “Asymmetric Idealization and the Market Process.” Advances in Austrian Economics 25 (2020): 85-110.
  9. “The Future of Political Philosophy: Non-Ideal and West of Babel.” Review of Austrian Economics 33 (2020): 237-252.
  10. “Kant, Rawls, and the Possibility of Autonomy.” Social Theory and Practice 45 (2019): 613-635. 
  11. “Rawlsian Originalism.” Jurisprudence 10 (2019): 334-353. (with Alexander William Salter).
  12. “Public Reason’s Chaos Theorem.” Episteme 16 (2019): 200-219.  
  13. “The Supreme Court as the Fountain of Public Reason.” Legal Theory 24 (2018): 345-369.
  14. “Moral Diversity and Moral Responsibility.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4 (2018): 371-389. (with Robert H. Wallace).
  15. “Enough and as Good: a Formal Model of Lockean First Appropriation.” American Journal of Political Science 62 (2018): 682-694. (with Benjamin Ogden).
  16. “What We Choose, What We Prefer.” Synthese 195 (2018): 3321-3340.
  17. “Justice, Diversity, and the Well-Ordered Society.” The Philosophical Quarterly 67 (2017): 663-684.
  18. “Aggregating Out of Indeterminacy: Social Choice Theory to the Rescue.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 16 (2017): 210-232.
  19. “When Public Reason Fails Us: Convergence Discourse as Blood Oath.” American Political Science Review 110 (2016): 717-730. (with Stephen G.W. Stich).
  20. “The Irrelevance of the Impossibility of Pure Libertarianism.” Journal of Philosophy 112 (2015): 211-222. (with Stephen G.W. Stich).
  21. “Modeling the Individual for Constitutional Choice.” Constitutional Political Economy 26 (2015): 455-474. 
 
Book Chapters
  1. “Public Choice and Political Equality.” Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Michael Bennett, Huub Brouwer, and Rutger Claassen. London: Routledge, forthcoming. 
  2. “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. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
  3. “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. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
  4. “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. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
  5. “Rational Choice Theory.” Research Methods in Analytic Political Theory, edited by Adrian Blau: 217-242. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. (with Gerald Gaus).
                      
Edited Volumes
  1. Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. (co-edited with Peter Boettke and Bobbi Herzberg).
 
Book Reviews
  1. Eric Mack, Libertarianism (Key Concepts in Political Theory). In The Independent Review (forthcoming).
  2. Nick Cowen, Neoliberal Social Justice: Rawls Unveiled. In Review of Austrian Economics (forthcoming). 
  3. 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.
  4. Michael Moehler, Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory. In Economics & Philosophy 35 (2019): 173-179.
  5. Cristina Bicchieri, Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms. In Review of Austrian Economics 31 (2018): 387-390.
  6. 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
  • 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 (April 2012)
 
Selected Presentations
  • “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.
      • Held online due to COVID-19.  
  • “Public Choice and Political Equality.”
    • Wealth and Power Workshop at Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands, June 10-12, 2021.
      • Held online due to COVID-19.
  • “Locke and the Homestead Act: Neither Enough nor as Good.”
    • Workshop in Heterodox Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, April 18, 2020.
      • Cancelled due to COVID-19.
    • The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, March 12-14, 2020.
      • Cancelled due to COVID-19.
  • “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.
 
Teaching
  • PHPE408/PHIL408: Theories of Democracy, Fall 2021, Fall 2022. 
  • PHIL808: Graduate Seminar on Democratic Theory, Spring 2021. 
  • PHIL808: Graduate Seminar on Democracy and Expertise, Fall 2019.
  • PHPE401/GVPT449: Social Philosophy and Political Economy, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022. 
  • HONR298: Honors Seminar on Hate Speech and Religious Toleration, Fall 2019.
  • PHIL445: Contemporary Political Philosophy, Spring 2019, Fall 2020.
  • PHIL808: Graduate Seminar on 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
Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science (x7); American Political Science Review (x2); Australasian Journal of Philosophy (x4); Bioethics​; Cambridge Elements; Cosmos + Taxis (x2); Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; Diametros; Economics & Philosophy; Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (x2); Ethical Theory and Moral Practice ​(x2); European Journal of Political Theory (x3); Inquiry; Journal of Applied Philosophy; Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy​; Journal of Institutional Economics; Journal of Moral Philosophy; Journal of Politics (x2); Journal of Social Philosophy; Journal of the American Philosophical Association; Journal of Value Inquiry; Law and Philosophy; Oxford University Press (x2); Philosophy Compass; Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophical Studies (x2); Political Research Exchange​; Political Studies; Politics, Philosophy & Economics (x5); Public Affairs Quarterly (x3); Res Publica (x2); Routledge; Rowman & Littlefield; Social Epistemology ​(x2); Social Philosophy & Policy (x4); Social Theory and Practice (x10); Synthese ​(x2); Theoria (x2); Thought.  
 
Editorial Board: Public Affairs Quarterly; Social Theory and Practice​.