Curriculum Vitae

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION     
  •     Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
  •     Moral Responsibility
  •     Scottish Enlightenment (especially Hume and Smith)
AREAS OF COMPETENCE           
  •     Social Epistemology
  •     Moral Psychology    
  •     Applied Ethics
  •     Game Theory & Social Choice Theory
  EMPLOYMENT
    
    2024 -                 Associate Professor of Philosophy                                         Smith Institute for Political Economy & Philosophy
                                                                                                                                Chapman University

         2017 -                 R.C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics                       Argyros College of Business & Economics
                                    & Free Enterprise                                                                 Chapman University

         2016 - 2024       Assistant Professor of Philosophy                                          Smith Institute for Political Economy & Philosophy
                                                                                                                                Chapman University   
                                     
    2016 - 2018        Honorary Research Fellow                                                     School of Historical & Philosophical Studies
                                                                                                                                University of Melbourne

       2015 - 2018      Research Fellow                                                                    Centre for Ethical Leadership

    2015 - 2016       Junior Research Fellow & Leading Tutor for                          Ormond College,
                Philosophy, Politics, and Economics                               University of Melbourne

EDUCATION

    Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Arizona, 2015
        Dissertation:    Embracing Moral Luck:  Accidents, Apologies, and the Foundations of Social Cooperation
              
    M.A., Economics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2015
            Thesis:    Exploring the Case Against Property-Owning Democracy
          
    A.B., Philosophy (with Honors), Brown University, 2008


PUBLICATIONS

    "Associative Responsibility and the Possibility of Blameworthiness Without Culpability," Social Theory and Practice, forthcoming

    “Does (mis)communication mitigate the upshot of diversity?“ with Ryan Muldoon and Alex Schaefer, PLoS One, 18(3): e0283248, 2023

    "Adam Smith and the Creative Role of Imagination,” with Brennan McDavid, in Alberto Burgio (ed.) Adam Smith and Modernity: 1723 - 2023,
    Routledge, 2023

    "Hume’s Politics and Four Dimensions of Realism," with John Thrasher, Journal of Politics, 84 (2), 2022

    "Smithian Sympathy and the Emergence of Norms,” with John Thrasher, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2021

    "Game Theory and Ethics," with Peter Vanderschraff, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2021

    "Positional Goods and Upstream Agency" with Daniel Halliday, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 98 (2), 2020, 279 - 293
  
    “Searching for the Ideal:  The Fundamental Diversity Dilemma” with Jerry Gaus, in Kevin Vallier and Michael Weber (eds.) Political
   Utopias. Oxford University Press, 2017.

    "Adam Smith's Intriguing Solution to the Problem of Moral Luck," Ethics, 126 (3), 2016, 711 - 746

    "When Justice Demands Inequality" with John Thrasher, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 12 (2), 2015, 172 - 194

   
BOOK REVIEWS

    "Review of Paul Sagar’s Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics," Independent Review, 28 (1), 2023

     "Review of John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness," Journal of Moral Philosophy, 11 (6), 2014, 769 - 772


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS
  • "Four Dimensions of Realism in Normative Political Theory" PPE Society Meeting, November 2024
  • "Pursuing Social Progress: The Question of Orientation" PPE Society Meeting, November 2023
  • "Modeling the Diversity Dilemma” University of Arizona, April 2023
  • "Modeling the Diversity Dilemma” University of Richmond, Jepson School of Leadership, January 2023
  • "Does Diversity Trump Ability in the Lab?” PPE Society Meeting, November 2022
  • "Does (mis)Communication Mitigate the Benefit of Diversity?” Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April 2022
  • "Adam Smith and the Creative Role of Imagination,” Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April 2022
  • "When Are Cycles Meaningful?” Bowling Green Conference on Applied Ethics and Public Policy, April 2022
  • "Who Does Data Really Belong To?" PPE Society Meeting, February 2022
  • "Role Models and the Positional Character of Opportunity,” MANCEPT (online), September 2020
  • "Social Choice and the Trade-off Between Utilizing and Imputing Information,” Philosophy Department, University at Buffalo, September 2019
  • "Social Choice and the Trade-off Between Utilizing and Imputing Information,” Oxford Conference on Collective Intentions and Voting, July 2019
  • "Who Does Data Really Belong To?" Harvard Business School Conference on Business Ethics in a Digital Age, April 2019
  • "Modeling the Costs and Benefits of Perspectival Diversity," PPE Society Meeting, March 2019
  • "Assessing the Impact of the ANCSA Corporations on the Welfare of Alaskan Natives," Hoover Institute Conference on Indigenous Economies, September 2018
  • "Modeling the Costs of Perspectival Diversity (to better appreciate its benefits)," CSU Sacramento Center for Practical and Professional Ethics, September 2018
  • "The Puzzle of Hume's Politics," 45th Annual Hume Society Conference, July 2018
  • "Social Choice and the Trade-off Between Utilizing and Imputing Information," PPE Society Meeting, March 2018
  • "Smithian Sympathy and Norm Convergence," International Adam Smith Society Chile Conference, January 2018
  • "Information, Independence, and Social Choice," Mont Pelerin Society Special Meeting, November 2017
  • "Information, Independence, and Social Choice," Australasian Association of Philosophy, July 2017
  • "Productivity and Self-Respect in a Growing Economy," Association for Private Enterprise Education, April 2017
  • "A Liability Model of Moral Responsibility," Philosophy Department, University of Maryland, College Park, February 2017
  • "Reaping the Benefits of Diversity" & "Accidents, Apologies, and Cooperation in Uncertain Environments," Southern Economic Association, November 2016
  • "Productivity and Self-Respect in a Growing Economy," Mont Pelerin Society Meeting, September 2016
  • “Comments on McHugh ‘Comparing Smith and Hume on Sympathy’,” International Hume Society Conference, July 2016
  • "Productivity and Self-Respect in a Growing Economy," Australasian Association of Philosophy Meeting, July 2016
  • "A Liability Model of Moral Responsibility," Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne, May 2016
  • "The Case for Property-Owning Democracy?" Philosophy Department, Monash University, May 2016
  • "A Liability Model of Moral Responsibility," Philosophy Department, University of Queensland, March 2016
  • "Responsibility Without Culpability," Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, January 2016
  • "Diversity, Disagreement, and the Search for Better States of Affairs," Centre for Moral, Social, and Political Theory, Australian National University, November 2015
  • "The Opaque Sources of Blame and Responsibility," Philosophy Department, Australian National University, October 2015
  • "The Opaque Sources of Blame and Responsibility," Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Meeting, Macquarie University, July 2015
  • “Comments on Berkey ‘Obligations of Productive Justice’,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, August 2014.
  • “Pulling Apart the Evaluative and Prescriptive Dimensions of Blame,” poster presentation at Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, August 2014.
  • “Smithian Sympathy and Norm Convergence,” Association for Private Enterprise Education Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, April 2014.
  • “Searching for the Ideal, and Feasible Paths to It,” (w/ Jerry Gaus), PPE Workshop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2014.
  • “The Case Against Property-Owning Democracy,” Cox Business School, Southern Methodist University, October, 2013.
  • “A Non-Aspirational Role for Ideal Theory,” Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, Vanderbilt University, October, 2013  .
  • “A Critical Perspective on Property-Owning Democracy,” IHS Summer Research Fellow Workshop, Arlington, VA, August 11, 2013.
  • “Public Reason Liberalism and Institutional Justice,” Association for Private Enterprise Education Meeting, Maui, HI, April 15 and 16, 2013.
  • “Idealization, Institutional Recommendations, and the Distinction Between Political Philosophy and Political Theory,” Southern Economics Association Meeting, New Orleans, November 16, 2012.
  • “Adam Smith and Our Irregular Sentiments,” North Sea Early Modern Workshop on Moral Psychology in the Scottish Enlightenment, University of Antwerp, October 12, 2010.
  • “The Role of Idealization in Normative Political Theory,” Social Change Workshop, Brown University, June 17, 2009.

 
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

    Australasian Association of Philosophy

    American Philosophical Association

    Southern Economic Association

    Association for Political Theory 

    American Political Science Association

       International Adam Smith Society

    Hume Society


References Available Upon Request