Biographical Notes

Richard Arneson teaches at the University of California, San Diego, where he is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Valtz Family Chair in Philosophy. He writes on moral and political philosophy, with a special focus on theories of distributive justice and on debates between consequentialists and their critics. He also does research on applied ethics topics.

Peter J. Boettke is a university Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University. He is also a BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism and the Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is co-editor-in-chief of The Review of Austrian Economics, President-elect of the Southern Economic Association, and President of The Mont Pelerin Society. His most recent publications include Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow and The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics (­co-edited with Christopher J. Coyne). Among his textbooks, The Economic Way of Thinking (with Paul Heyne and David Prychitko) is currently in its 13th edition, and Institutional Economics: Property, Competition, Policy (with Wolfgang Kasper and Manfred Streit) is in its 2nd edition.

Geoffrey Brennan is a distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a research Professor of Political Science at Duke University, and a Professor in the Research School of the Social Sciences at Australian National University. An economist by training, Geoffrey Brennan works actively on issues at the intersection of economics, rationality, and political philosophy. In addition to his position here, which brings him to Chapel Hill for one semester each year, Brennan is a Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is the Director of the Duke–UNC joint program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). Brennan is the author of nine books, including, with James Buchanan, The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (1985); with Loren Lomasky, Democracy and Decision: the Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (1993); with Alan Hamlin, Democratic Devices and Desires (2000); and, most recently, with Philip Pettit, The Economy of Esteem(2004). He is also the author of over 100 articles.

Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Chair of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, where he teaches courses in the intersection of politics, philosophy, and economics. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Against Democracy (2016), Markets without Limits, with Peter Jaworski (2015), Compulsory Voting: For and Against (2014), Why Not Capitalism? (2014), Libertarianism (2012), The Ethics of Voting (2011), and A Brief History of Liberty, with David Schmidtz (2010). He is currently writing Global Justice as Global Freedom, with Bas van der Vossen, under contract with Oxford University Press.

Rosolino A. Candela is a PhD candidate in Economics at George Mason University and a Graduate Research Fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Previously, he was also a visiting PhD student in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute and a Charles G. Koch PhD Fellow at Suffolk University. He has published several book chapters and journal articles in outlets including Advances in Austrian Economics, The Atlantic Economic Journal, Man and the Economy, The Journal for Private Enterprise, The Review of Austrian Economics, and Sociologia.

Sarah Conly is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Bowdoin College. She is the author of One Child: Do We Have a Right to More? (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2012), as well as a wide range of articles in applied ethics. Her articles have appeared in Ethics, American Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Medical Ethics, and Philosophical Review, among others.

Ann E. Cudd is the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and a Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Previously, Cudd was a distinguished university Professor of Philosophy and Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Kansas (KU). Cudd’s philosophical interests include social and political philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science, decision theory, and feminist theory. Her research has long focused on themes of oppression, economic inequality, and gender. Her books include Analyzing Oppression (Oxford University Press, 2006); Capitalism, For and Against: A Philosophical Debate, co-authored with Nancy Holmstrom (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and four edited volumes on themes ranging from the backlash against feminism to contemporary democracy. She has published over 50 articles and book chapters. Recent work concerns contractarian political philosophy, conceptions of domestic violence in international law, and the injustice of educational inequality.

Samuel Freeman is the Avalon Professor of the Humanities and a Professor of Philosophy and of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Justice and the Social Contract (Oxford, 2006) and of Rawls in the Routledge Philosophers series (2007). He edited and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Rawls (2003) and also edited John Rawls’s Collected Papers (1999) and Rawls’s Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy (2007). Freeman’s book Liberalism, Economic Justice, and the Difference Principle (Oxford) is forthcoming in 2017.

Christopher Freiman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of William & Mary. His research interests include democratic theory, distributive justice, and immigration. Freiman’s forthcoming book, Unequivocal Justice, criticizes the role of idealization in contemporary political philosophy. His work has appeared in venues such as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy.

Jessica Flanigan is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law at the University of Richmond. She received a PhD from Princeton University. Her research addresses the ethics of paternalism in public health policy, feminist philosophy, and the moral foundations of political authority.

Gerald Gaus is the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Tyranny of the Ideal; The Order of Public Reason; On Philosophy, Politics and Economics; Contemporary Theories of Liberalism: Public Reason as a Post-Enlightenment Project; and Justificatory Liberalism: An Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory, among other books. Gaus’s main area of work is on public reason and the intersection of political philosophy and social science. Gaus has published in a wide array of scholarly journals, including Ethics, Social Philosophy and Policy and Episteme. He is co-editor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and he was co-editor of The Australasian Journal of Philosophy from 1997 to 2002.

Javier Hidalgo is an Assistant Professor in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. He works primarily in political philosophy and ethics. He has published numerous articles in journals such as The Journal of Political Philosophy, The Journal of Medical Ethics, and The Journal of Applied Ethics.

Michael Huemer is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of four books: Approaching Infinity (2016), The Problem of Political Authority (2013), Ethical Intuitionism (2005), and Skepticism and the Veil of Perception (2001). He is also editor of Epistemology: Contemporary Readings. He has published over 60 articles in epistemology, metaethics, metaphysics, political philosophy, and ethics, with papers appearing in Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy, Mind, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, among others.

Peter Martin Jaworski is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He is a Senior Fellow with the Canadian Constitution Foundation and a Director of the Institute for Liberal Studies. He has also been a visiting Research Professor at Brown University. Jaworski’s academic work has been published or is forthcoming in several journals, including Ethics, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, The Journal of Business Ethics, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Along with Jason Brennan, Peter is the author of Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests (2015).

Jacob T. Levy is the Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and a Professor of Political Science at McGill University, Coordinator of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies and the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique, and is the Director of the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. He is the author of Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom (2014) and The Multiculturalism of Fear (2000) as well as numerous articles in Political Theory, American Political Science Review, History of Political Thought, and other leading journals.

Eric Mack is a Professor of Philosophy and the author of John Locke (2009). He has published widely in political philosophy and the history of political thought, including in journals such as Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Social Philosophy and Policy, The Monist, and Philosophy and Public Affairs. His primary philosophical interests are in the foundation of moral rights, property rights and distributive justice, and the legitimate scope of coercive institutions. He has related interests in doctrines of negative responsibility, just war theory, anti-positivist conceptions of law, retributivism, philosophical anarchism, and the history of libertarian thought. He has received grants from NEH, the Earhart Foundation, the Center for Social Philosophy and Policy, and the Bradley Foundation.

Nicolás Maloberti is a Fellow at Liberty Fund. His research has mostly focused on political legitimacy and the moral foundations of libertarianism. His articles have appeared in journals such as The Independent Review, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Revista de Ciencia Política, and Rationality, Markets and Morality.

Richard W. Miller is the Hutchinson Professor in Ethics and Public Life in the Department of Philosophy, Cornell University. His writings in political philosophy include 平等, 民主, 与国家主权:东西方的和解 (Equality, Democracy, and National Sovereignty: Reconciling East and West) (2016); Globalizing Justice (2010); Moral Differences (1992); Fact and Method (1997); Analyzing Marx (1984); and recent articles that will lead to The Ethics of Social Democracy. He has published widely in journals such as Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Public Affairs, The Journal of Ethics, and Analysis.

Ryan Muldoon is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo—SUNY. He is the author of Social Contract Theory for a Diverse World: Beyond Tolerance. His primary research investigates how we can turn the challenge of increasing diversity into a resource to be tapped for our mutual benefit.

Thomas Mulligan is a Faculty Fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics and is the author of Justice and the Meritocratic State. Before coming to academia, he served in the US Navy and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Michael Munger is the Director of the PPE Program at Duke University. He Chaired Duke’s Political Science Department from 2000 to 2010, and he is a past President of the Public Choice Society as well as a past editor of the journal Public Choice.He earned a PhD in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis and has previously worked at the US Federal Trade Commission, Dartmouth College, the University of Texas, and the University of North Carolina. Munger’s recent books include Choosing in Groups (­co-authored with Kevin Munger) and The Thing Itself, both 2015. His research interests include the study of the morality of exchange and the working of the new “middleman economy.” Much of his recent work has been in philosophy, examining the concept of truly voluntary exchange, a concept for which he coined the term euvoluntary. His current project is a book entitled Tomorrow 3.0.

Jahel Queralt is a Serra Húnter Lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Prior to that, she held posts at the Centre for Ethics of the University of Zurich and the Centre for Advanced Studies Justitia Amplificata at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. Her areas of research cover contemporary theories of justice and human rights theory.

Ilya Somin is a Professor of Law at George Mason University. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy. He is the author of Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter (Stanford University Press, revised and expanded second edition, 2016) and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain (University of Chicago Press, 2015); co-author of A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); and co-editor of Eminent Domain in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Hillel Steiner is an Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of An Essay on Rights (1994) and co-author of A Debate Over Rights: Philosophical Enquiries (with Matthew Kramer and Nigel Simmonds, 1998). He is also co-editor of Freedom and Trade (with Geraint Parry, 1998); The Origins of Left-Libertarianism: An Anthology of Historical Writings and Left-Libertarianism and Its Critics: The Contemporary Debate (with Peter Vallentyne, 2000); and Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology (with Ian Carter and Matthew Kramer, 2007). His current research concerns the concept of “the just price” and the application of libertarian principles to global and genetic inequalities.

Anna Stilz is an Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Her research focuses on questions of political membership, authority and political obligation, nationalism and self-determination, rights to land and territory, and collective agency. She also has a strong interest in early modern political thought (particularly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries). Her first book, Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State (Princeton University Press, 2009), focused on questions of state authority and citizenship, examining the question of whether we have different, and perhaps more stringent, moral duties to our fellow citizens than we do to people in foreign countries. She has also published articles in Ethics, History of European Ideas, International Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, Policy and Society, and Philosophy & Public Affairs. She is currently working on a new book on self-determination and states’ rights to control land and territory. She is interested in related questions concerning the status of indigenous peoples, historic injustice, colonialism, and theories of property.

Edward Peter Stringham is the Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Stringham is President of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, former President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise, editor of two books, and author of more than 60 journal articles, book chapters, and policy studies. His most recent book, Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life, is published by Oxford University Press.

Chris W. Surprenant is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans, where he directs the Alexis de Tocqueville Project in Law, Liberty, and Morality. He is the author of Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue (Routledge 2014), editor of Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Routledge 2017), and co-­editor of Kant and Education: Interpretations and Commentary (Routledge 2012) and Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment (Routledge 2017).

Fernando R. Tesón is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. He is known for his scholarship relating political philosophy to international law (in particular his defense of humanitarian intervention), political rhetoric, and global justice. He has authored Justice at a Distance: Expanding Freedom Globally (Cambridge University Press, 2015) (with Loren Lomasky); Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation (Cambridge University Press 2006) (with Guido Pincione); Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality (3rd edition fully revised and updated, Transnational Publishers 2005); A Philosophy of International Law (Westview Press 1998); and dozens of articles in law, philosophy, and international-relations journals and collections of essays.

John Thrasher is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He specializes in political philosophy, ethics, and decision/game theory. His research focuses on the relation of individual practical rationality to social rules, as well as the way those rules are organized into systems of norms and institutions. He is especially interested in how recent work in moral psychology and experimental economics can inform our understanding of how to improve our institutions of self-governance. His work has been published in Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Political Studies, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, The European Journal of Philosophy, The Adam Smith Review, and several edited volumes.

Kevin Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University and serves as Director of BGSU’s program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL). Vallier received his PhD from the University of Arizona in 2011. Vallier’s areas of interest lie within political philosophy, political economy, normative ethics, and philosophy of religion. Vallier is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (Routledge 2014), which addresses the question of the proper role of religion in the life of liberal democracies. Vallier is now writing a book entitled Must Politics Be War? In Defense of Public Reason Liberalism, which Oxford University Press will publish in 2017. The book concerns how to establish peaceful social and political relations between persons with deeply divergent worldviews.

Bas van der Vossen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is currently writing Debating Humanitarian Intervention, with Fernando R. Tesón, and Global Justice as Global Freedom, with Jason Brennan, both under contract with Oxford University Press. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Political Studies, and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, among others.

Fabian Wendt is a temporary Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany. He has previously been an Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Arizona. His book Compromise, Peace and Public Justification: Political Morality beyond Justice was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2016.

Matt Zwolinski is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego and Director of USD’s Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy. He is also a Co-director of USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy and a Fellow at UCSD’S Center on Global Justice. He is the author of nearly 30 articles focusing on various theoretical and applied aspects of exploitation, and he is the editor of Arguing About Political Philosophy (2nd edition, Routledge, 2014) and The Politics, Philosophy, and Economics of Exploitation (Oxford, 2017). With John Tomasi, he is the author of A Brief History of Libertarianism, forthcoming with Princeton University Press in 2018.