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:

• “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,” 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 (x5); American Political Science Review; Australasian Journal of Philosophy (x2); Cosmos + Taxis (x2); Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; Diametros​; Economics and Philosophy; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice​; European Journal of Political Theory ​(x2); Inquiry; Journal of Institutional Economics; 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 (x4); Theoria; Thought.  
• Editorial Board: ​Public Affairs Quarterly.