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.
  • 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. “Autonomy, Zoning, and Gentrification.” Forthcoming in Politics, Philosophy & Economics. 
  2. "Planning, Market Dynamism, and the Rule of Law." Forthcoming in Cosmos + Taxis​. 
  3. “Ideology vs. Collective Action.” Forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
  4. “The Ethics of AI Automation: The Importance of Treating Like Cases Alike.” Forthcoming in AI and Ethics. (with Jeffrey Carroll).
  5. “There Is No Right to a Competent Electorate.” Forthcoming in Inquiry. (with Jeffrey Carroll). 
  6. “Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life.” Journal of Business Ethics 197 (2025): 659-671. 
  7. "In Defense of Filibustering." Social Theory and Practice​ 51 (2025): 53-76.
  8. “Formal Models in Normative Political Theory.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 36 (2024): 256-274. (with Hun Chung). 
  9. “The Moral Status of Pecuniary Externalities.” Journal of Business Ethics 195 (2024): 121-132. (with Jeffrey Carroll).
  10. “The Demand and Supply of False Consciousness.” Social Philosophy & Policy 41 (2024): 203-222. 
  11. “In Defense of (Limited) Oligarchy.” Public Affairs Quarterly 37 (2023): 352-370. 
  12. “In Defense of Knavish Constitutions.” Public Choice 196 (2023): 141-156. 
  13. "Finding the Epistocrats." Episteme​ 20 (2023): 497-512.
  14. "We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth." Utilitas 34 (2022): 478-492.  
  15. "Reparations to the Privileged?" Journal of Applied Philosophy 39 (2022): 441-455. 
  16. "Does Equality Persist? Evidence from the Homestead Act." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 3 (2022): 215-241. (with Bryan Leonard). 
  17. “Lockeans against Labor Mixing.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 20 (2021): 251-272.  
  18. “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).
  19. “Secrecy and Transparency in Political Philosophy.” Philosophy Compass 16 (2021): e12733.
  20. “Diversity and Rights: a Social Choice-Theoretic Analysis of the Possibility of Public Reason.” Synthese 197 (2020): 839-865. (with Hun Chung).
  21. “Asymmetric Idealization and the Market Process.” Advances in Austrian Economics 25 (2020): 85-110.
  22. “The Future of Political Philosophy: Non-Ideal and West of Babel.” Review of Austrian Economics 33 (2020): 237-252.
  23. “Kant, Rawls, and the Possibility of Autonomy.” Social Theory and Practice 45 (2019): 613-635. 
  24. “Rawlsian Originalism.” Jurisprudence 10 (2019): 334-353. (with Alexander William Salter).
  25. “Public Reason’s Chaos Theorem.” Episteme 16 (2019): 200-219.  
  26. “The Supreme Court as the Fountain of Public Reason.” Legal Theory 24 (2018): 345-369.
  27. “Moral Diversity and Moral Responsibility.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4 (2018): 371-389. (with Robert H. Wallace).
  28. “Enough and as Good: a Formal Model of Lockean First Appropriation.” American Journal of Political Science 62 (2018): 682-694. (with Benjamin Ogden).
  29. “What We Choose, What We Prefer.” Synthese 195 (2018): 3321-3340.
  30. “Justice, Diversity, and the Well-Ordered Society.” The Philosophical Quarterly 67 (2017): 663-684.
  31. “Aggregating Out of Indeterminacy: Social Choice Theory to the Rescue.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 16 (2017): 210-232.
  32. “When Public Reason Fails Us: Convergence Discourse as Blood Oath.” American Political Science Review 110 (2016): 717-730. (with Stephen G.W. Stich).
  33. “The Irrelevance of the Impossibility of Pure Libertarianism.” Journal of Philosophy 112 (2015): 211-222. (with Stephen G.W. Stich).
  34. “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. Adam Lovett, Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy. Forthcoming in Public Choice. 
  2. Stuart Vyse, The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to be Rational. In The Independent Review 29 (Summer 2024). 
  3. Nick Cowen, Neoliberal Social Justice: Rawls Unveiled. In Review of Austrian Economics 36 (2023): 493-496. 
  4. Eric Mack, Libertarianism (Key Concepts in Political Theory). In The Independent Review 26 (Winter 2021/2022). 
  5. 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.
  6. Michael Moehler, Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory. In Economics & Philosophy 35 (2019): 173-179.
  7. Cristina Bicchieri, Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms. In Review of Austrian Economics 31 (2018): 387-390.
  8. 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)
 
Selected Presentations
  • 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.
 
Teaching
  • PHIL240/POL229: Social and Political Philosophy, Spring 2025
  • 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.