David Schmidtz
Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1988
Political Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy
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Political Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy
David Schmidtz is the Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona.
Current Research
- The Purpose of Moral Theory
- A Brief History of Liberty (with Jason Brennan)
- Singer Under Fire
Books
- Elements of Justice (Cambridge, 2006)
- Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works, co-editor with Elizabeth Willott (Oxford, 2002)
- Robert Nozick, editor (Cambridge, 2002)
- Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility, co-authored with Robert E. Goodin (Cambridge, 1998)
- Rational Choice and Moral Agency (Princeton, 1995)
- The Limits of Government: An Essay on the Public Goods Argument (Westview, 1991)
Selected Publications
- "When Justice Matters," (Ethics, 2007)
- "Reinventing the Commons" (w/ E. Willott, UC Davis Law Rev, 2003)
- "How to Deserve" (Political Theory, 2002)
- "The Meanings of Life" (from Robert Nozick, 2002)
- "A Place For Cost-Benefit Analysis" (Philosophical Issues, 2001)
- "The Tragedy of the Commons," w/E. Willott (Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics, 2001)
- "Natural Enemies" (Environmental Ethics, 2000)
- "Are All Species Equal?" (Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1998)
- "When Preservationism Doesn't Preserve" (Environmental Values, 1997)
- "Choosing Ends" (Ethics, 1994). Available on JSTOR.
- "The Institution of Property" (Social Philosophy and Policy, 1994)
- "Reasons for Altruism" (Social Philosophy and Policy, 1993)
- "Rationality Within Reason" (Journal of Philosophy, 1992). Available at JSTOR.
- "Justifying the State" (Ethics, 1990). Available at JSTOR.
Teaching
- Decision Theory
- Environmental Ethics
- The Purpose of Moral Theory, Why be Moral?
- Philosophy of Law, Welfare, Justice, Environmental Policy (at the law school)
- Property (at the law school)
- Philosophy of Freedom