Education:
  • Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Arizona, 2017. 
  • B.A., Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012.
  • B.A., Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012.

Books:
  • Secret Government: The Pathologies of Publicity, under contract with Cambridge University Press. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles: 
  • "When Public Reason Falls Silent: Liberal Democratic Justification versus the Administrative State." Forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. (with Stephen G.W. Stich).
  • "Diversity and Rights: a Social Choice-Theoretic Analysis of the Possibility of Public Reason." Synthese 197 (2020): 839-865. (with Hun Chung).
  • "Kant, Rawls, and the Possibility of Autonomy." Social Theory and Practice 45 (2019): 613-635. 
  • "Rawlsian Originalism." Jurisprudence 10 (2019): 334-353. (with Alexander Williams Salter). 
  • "Public Reason's Chaos Theorem." Episteme 16 (2019): 200-219. 
  • “The Supreme Court as the Fountain of Public Reason.” Legal Theory 24 (2018): 345-369. 
  • "Moral Diversity and Moral Responsibility." Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4 (2018): 371-389 (with Robert H. Wallace).
  • "Enough and as Good: a Formal Model of Lockean First Appropriation." American Journal of Political Science 62 (2018): 682-694. (with Benjamin Ogden).
  • "What We Choose, What We Prefer." Synthese 195 (2018): 3221-3240.
  • "Justice, Diversity, and the Well-Ordered Society." The Philosophical Quarterly 67 (2017): 663-684.
  • "Aggregating Out of Indeterminacy: Social Choice Theory to the Rescue." Politics, Philosophy, & Economics 16 (2017): 210-232.
  • "When Public Reason Fails Us: Convergence Discourse as Blood Oath." American Political Science Review 110 (2016): 717-730. (with Stephen G.W. Stich).
  • “The Irrelevance of the Impossibility of Pure Libertarianism.” Journal of Philosophy 112 (2015): 211-222. (with Stephen G.W. Stich). 
  • "Modeling the Individual for Constitutional Choice." Constitutional Political Economy 26 (2015): 455-474.

Invited Articles:
  • "The Future of Political Philosophy: Non-Ideal and West of Babel." Review of Austrian Economics​ 33 (2020): 237-252. 
  • “Justificatory Failures and Moral Entrepreneurs: a Hayekian Theory of Public Reason." In Exploring the Political Economy & Social Philosophy of F.A. Hayek, edited by Peter J. Boettke, Jayme S. Lemke, and Virgil Henry Storr. London: Rowman & Littlefield (2018): 79-99.
  • “Buchanan and Arrow on Democracy, Impossibility, and Market." In Exploring the Political Economy & Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan, edited by Paul Aligica, Christopher J. Coyne, and Stefanie Haeffele. London: Rowman & Littlefield (2018): 123-141. 
  • “Rawls, Buchanan, and the Search for a Better Social Contract." In Exploring the Political Economy & Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan, edited by Paul Aligica, Christopher J. Coyne, and Stefanie Haeffele. London: Rowman & Littlefield (2018): 17-38.
  • "Rational Choice Theory." In Research Methods in Analytic Political Theory, edited by Adrian Blau.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017): 217-242. (with Gerald Gaus).

Edited Volumes:
  • Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, under contract with Rowman and Littlefield. (co-edited with Peter Boettke and Bobbi Herzberg). 

Book Reviews:
  • 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.
  • Michael Moehler, Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory. In Economics and Philosophy 35 (2019): 173-179.
  • Cristina Bicchieri, Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms. In Review of Austrian Economics 31 (2018): 387-390.
  • Christopher Freiman, Unequivocal Justice. In Public Choice ​173 (2017): 173: 373-376. 

Popular Pieces:
  • "Thinking Small about the Ideal Society." In the London School of Economics’ theForum (online blog).
  • “Frank Underwood Gives the Ideal Society a Reality Check.” In House of Cards and Philosophy, edited by James Edward Hackett. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons (2015): 31-41.
    • Reprinted in The Philosopher's Magazine, Fall 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 Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017. 
  • Dorothy Grover Award for best undergraduate philosophy major, April 2012.

Selected Presentations:
  • “Asymmetric Idealization and the Market Process.”
    • “Philosophy, Politics, and Austrian Economics,” at Brown University in Providence, RI, June 27-29, 2019. 
  • “On Seeing Justice."
    • “The Future of Public Reason,” at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, May 23-24, 2019. 
    • University of North Carolina Philosophy Department 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 London 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.
  • “Deliberation 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 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,” 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 Society 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 in Manchester, UK, September 1-3, 2015.
  • “Aggregating Out of Indeterminacy: Social Choice Theory to the Rescue.”
    • “Freedom and Well-Being,” hosted by the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics in Washington, DC, June 19-21, 2015.
    • “The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Liberty,” 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 in New Haven, CT, November 14-15, 2014.
  • “Justice and Action-Guidance.”
    • Harvard Graduate Political Theory Conference 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:
  • PHIL 808: Graduate Seminar on Democracy and Expertise, Fall 2019 (Maryland).
  • HONR 298: Honors Seminar on Hate Speech and Religious Toleration, Fall 2019 (Maryland).
  • PHIL 498: Independent Study on Rawls and Political Liberalism, Spring 2019 (Maryland).
  • PHIL 445: Contemporary Political Philosophy, Spring 2019 (Maryland).
  • PHIL 808: Graduate Seminar on Contractarianism, Spring 2018 (Maryland).
  • PHIL 498: Independent Study on Hannah Arendt, Spring 2018 (Maryland).
  • PHIL 261: Philosophy of the Environment, Spring 2018, Spring 2019 (Maryland).
  • PHIL 245: Political and Social Philosophy I, Fall 2017, Fall 2018 (Maryland).


Service:
  • Reviewer for: American Journal of Political Science (x4); American Political Science Review; Australasian Journal of Philosophy (x2); Cosmos + Taxis (x2); Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; Diametros​; Economics and Philosophy; European Journal of Political Theory ​(x2); Inquiry; Journal of Moral Philosophy​; Journal of Politics; Journal of Social Philosophy; Journal of Value Inquiry; Law and Philosophy; Philosophy Compass​; Philosophical Quarterly​; Philosophical Studies ​(x2); Political Studies; Politics, Philosophy, & Economics (x3); Public Affairs Quarterly (x3); Res Publica​; Rowman & Littlefield; Social Philosophy & Policy (x4); Social Theory and Practice (x3); Theoria; Thought.  
  • Editorial Board: ​Public Affairs Quarterly.