Academic Appointments
Education
Areas of Specialization
Areas of Competence
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Invited Publication
Book Reviews
Popular Writing
Presentations
Conference Participation
Awards
Fellowships
Teaching
Service
Professional Training
Professional Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University 2021-Present
- Joint Affiliation with the Honors College 2021-2024
Education
- Ph.D, Philosophy, University of Virginia, 2016-2021
- M.A., Philosophy, Georgia State University, 2014-2016
- B.A., Philosophy and Political Science, Ohio State University, 2009-2013
Areas of Specialization
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
- Philosophy of Law
Areas of Competence
- Ethics
- Applied Ethics
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- "The Moral Status of Pecuniary Externalities” – Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming (with Brian Kogelmann).
- "On the Coherence of the Rawlsian Non-Minimalist Methodological Approach” – Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Forthcoming.
- "There is No Right to a Competent Electorate" - Inquiry. Forthcoming (with Brian Kogelmann).
- "Must We Always Pursue Economic Growth? - Utilitas. Forthcoming.
- "Ideal Theory for a Complex World" - Res Publica, Vol. 28 (2022): 531-550.
- “Is Visiting the Pharmacy Like Voting at the Poll? Behavioral Asymmetry in Pharmaceutical Freedom” – HEC Forum, Vol. 34, Issue 3 (September 2022): 213-232.
- "Is Ideal Theory Anarchic?" – The Journal of Politics, Vol. 38, No. 3 (July 2021): 1132-1144.
- "Mandatory Shutdowns, the Ratchet Effect, and the Barstool Fund" - Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2021): 47-57.
- "The Prospects of Populism" - The Independent Review, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Summer 2021).
- "In Defense of Strict Compliance as a Modeling Assumption" – Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 46, No. 3 (July 2020): 441-466.
Invited Publication
- "Ideal Theory: An Internal Critique" for Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory, Forthcoming.
- "Woozles: Who Is to Blame and What Can Be Done? - Reflections on Taylor's Prescriptive Project" - Reason Papers, Vol. 42, No. 2, (Summer 2022): 6-18.
- "Hayekian Utopianism" - Austrian Economic Thought in the Market Process, eds. Christopher Coyne, Rosolino Candela, and Kristen R. Collins, (New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Int.), 2022: 209- 228.
Book Reviews
- On Justice by Mathias Risse (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press 2020) - Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 20, Issue 3-4 (July 2023): 374-377..
- Libertarianism by Eric Mack (Medford, MA: Polity Press 2018) – Reason Papers, Vol. 42.1 (July 2021): 136-142.
- The Ethics of Capitalism by Daniel Halliday and John Thrasher (New York, NY: Oxford University Press 2020) – The Journal of Value Inquiry. September 2020.
Popular Writing
- “Mr. Potter: Man of System” – Speaking of Smith, AdamSmithWorks.org (Dec 2020)
Presentations
- "Take the Money: Why Paying People Not to Vote May Make the World a Better Place"
- California State University, Sacramento: November 2023
- California State University, Sacramento: November 2023
- "What are Market Harms?"
- Markets and Society Conference: October 2023
- Markets and Society Conference: October 2023
- "Discipline and Peace"
- Association for Private Enterprise Education: April 2023
- Association for Private Enterprise Education: April 2023
- "Do Rising Economic Tides Lift All Moral Boats?"
- Georgia State University, Moral Progress Conference: March 2023
- Georgia State University, Moral Progress Conference: March 2023
- "Institutional Intelligence"
- PPE Society: November 2022
- "Ideal Theory for a Complex World"
- PPE Society: February 2022
- "Epistemic Injustice Meets the Politics of Resentment"
- PPE Society: February 2022
- "Ideal Populism and Nonideal Populism"
- The Association for Private Enterprise Education: April 2021
- "Incentivizing Justice"
- Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) Graduate Conference: March 2021
- "The IQ Test for Democracy"
- PPE Society: October 2021
- American Political Science Association: September 2020
- “Semiotic Objection or Semiotic Impossibility Theorem? On Maguire and Brown’s Critique of Markets”
- Workshop on Morals, Markets, and Market-Based Societies at the University of Colorado - Boulder: May 2020
- "Utopian Theorizing as Theoretical Science"
- PPE Society: March 2020
- "Epistemic Complexity and the Need for a Dynamic Theory of Justice"
- PPE Society: March 2020 [Panel Cancelled due to COVID-19]
- "Nozickean Ideal Theory as the Future of Political Philosophy: A Reply to Kogelmann"
- Institute for Humane Studies Fall Research Workshop: October 2019
- "Is Ideal Theory Socialist or Capitalist?"
- The Association for Private Enterprise Education: April 2021
- The Association for Private Enterprise Education: April 2020 [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
- IHS Summer Research Workshop: June 2019
- "Optimal, Practical, and Insightful: Why Ideal Theory Needs to Pick Two"
- American Philosophical Association (Eastern Meeting): January 2020
- Institute for Humane Studies Fall Research Colloquium: October 2018
- "A Defense of Poll Taxes"
- American Political Science Association: August/September 2018
- "In Defense of Strict Compliance"
- PPE Society: March 2018
- "Ideal Theory and Interdependence"
- PPE Society: March 2018
- "The Promise of Lockean Tacit Consent Theory"
- American Philosophical Association (Central Meeting): February 2018
- "A Manual for Diagnosing Utopophobia"
- IHS Summer Research Colloquium: July 2017
- "The Fittingness Response for Gratitudinal Theories of Political Obligation"
- Georgia State University, Phi Sigma Tau Graduate Philosophy Symposium: February 2017
- "Ideal Theory and the Problem of Identifying a Guiding Target"
- University of Arizona: February 2016
Conference Participation
- Commenter on Adam Lovett's "Democracy and Time" - Central APA 2021
- Commenter on Victoria Cost's "Freedom as Non-Domination and Prejudice" - Morvin Retreat at the University of Virginia, September 2017
Awards
- All-University Graduate Teaching Award 2019-2020, University of Virginia
- Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award (Philosophy) 2016, Georgia State University
Fellowships
- Jefferson Fellowship
- 2019-2021, Two year teaching exemption and $5000 research budget
- Adam Smith Fellowship
- 2020-2021, $7500
- 2019-2020, $5000
- 2018-2019, $5000
- 2017-2018, $5000
- Bernard Marcus Fellow under the Humane Studies Fellowship
- 2020-2021, $7000
- 2019-2020, $6000
- Humane Studies Fellowship
- 2018-2019, $4000
- Visiting Summer Resarch Fellow in the Centre for Moral and Political Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Supervisor: David Enoch
- May - June 2020 [Cancelled due to COVID-19}
- IHS Summer Research Fellowship
- Summer 2020, $5000
- KFP Summer Fellow
- Summer 2016, $5000
- Jean Beer Blumenfeld Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy at Georgia State University
- 2014-2016, $30000
- One selected from each incoming cohort of MA students
Teaching
- As Primary Instructor
- Bowling Green State University
- Summer 2024 Introduction to Ethics
- Spring 2024 Graduate Seminar: Democratic Theory
- Fall 2023 PPEL Gateway
- Fall 2023 History of Political Economy
- Fall 2023 Philosophy of Law
- Summer 2023 Introduction to Ethics
- Spring 2023 Graduate Seminar: Rawls and Nozick
- Spring 2023 PPEL Capstone
- Fall 2022 PPEL Gateway
- Fall 2022 Philosophy of Law
- Summer 2022 Introduction to Ethics
- Spring 2022 PPEL Gateway
- Spring 2022 PPEL Capstone
- Spring 2022 Honors Seminar: Injustice – Race, Place, and Gender
- Fall 2021 Philosophy of Law
- Fall 2021 Introduction to Philosophy
- Georgia State University
- Spring 2016 Critical Thinking, (2 sections)
- Fall 2015 Critical Thinking, (3 sections)
- Spring 2015 Critical Thinking, (1 section)
- University of Virginia
- Summer 2021 Philosophical Issues in Political Economy
- Summer 2018 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
- Bowling Green State University
- Advising
- Audrey Fahlberg, Against Voter Competency Tests, 2020, Bachelor's Thesis in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law, University of Virginia
- Graduate Teaching Consultant for the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia
- Teaching As a Graduate Student (TAGS) Facilitator 2020, University of Virginia
Service
- Organized Online Working Papers Group on Political Philosophy for IHS: Fall 2017 – Present
- Judge for Washington vs. Jefferson Society Ethics Debate: Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018
Professional Training
- PPE Graduate Summer Workshop, Chapman University: Summer 2021
- Weeklong training workshop on PPE methods and formal skills
- Ethics Across the Curriculum Seminar, Georgetown University: Spring 2018
- Two-day Seminar on Business Ethics
- Public Choice Outreach Conference, George Mason University: Summer 2016
- Two-day Conference on Themes in Public Choice Economics
Professional Affiliations
- American Philosophical Association
- American Political Science Association
- The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society