Education:
Books:
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Invited Articles:
Edited Volumes:
Book Reviews:
Popular Pieces:
Selected Awards:
Selected Presentations:
Teaching:
Service:
- 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, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- "Secrecy and Transparency in Political Philosophy." Forthcoming in Philosophy Compass.
- "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:
- “Asymmetric Idealization and the Market Process.” Advances in Austrian Economics 25 (2020): 85-110.
- "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. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. (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:
- “Excluding the Antidemocratic is Antidemocratic.” In Cato Unbound: A Journal of Debate.
- "Thinking Small about the Ideal Society." In the London School of Economics’ theForum.
- “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.
- Workshop in Heterodox Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, April 18, 2020.
- “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 Democratic Theory, Spring 2021.
- PHIL 808: Graduate Seminar on Democracy and Expertise, Fall 2019.
- PHPE401/GVPT449: Social Philosophy and Political Economy, Spring 2021.
- HONR 298: Honors Seminar on Hate Speech and Religious Toleration, Fall 2019.
- PHIL 445: Contemporary Political Philosophy, Spring 2019, Fall 2020.
- PHIL 808: Graduate Seminar on Contractarianism, Spring 2018.
- PHIL 261: Philosophy of the Environment, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
- PHIL 245: Political and Social Philosophy I, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020.
Service:
- Reviewer for: American Journal of Political Science (x5); American Political Science Review (x2); Australasian Journal of Philosophy (x3); Cosmos + Taxis (x2); Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; Diametros; Economics and Philosophy; Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; European Journal of Political Theory (x3); Inquiry; Journal of Institutional Economics; Journal of Moral Philosophy; Journal of Politics; Journal of Social Philosophy; Journal of Value Inquiry; Law and Philosophy; Oxford University Press; Philosophy Compass; Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophical Studies (x2); Political Studies; Politics, Philosophy, & Economics (x3); Public Affairs Quarterly (x3); Res Publica; Routledge; Rowman & Littlefield; Social Epistemology; Social Philosophy & Policy (x4); Social Theory and Practice (x4); Theoria; Thought.
- Editorial Board: Public Affairs Quarterly.