Teaching

Sac State Philosophy

Spring 2024:

• Philosophy 89: Philosophical Methods
• Philosophy 103: Business and Computer Ethics
• Philosophy 189: Senior Seminar

Articles and Chapters

• Biblical Equality, Isonomia Quarterly 2:1 (2024).
• Liberty, in Ben Ferguson and Matt Zwolinski (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism (2022).
• The Hebrew Republic? Divine Authority and Self-Governance, Journal of Private Enterprise 34:4 (2019), 19-31.
• How Should We Treat Religion? On exemptions and exclusions, in Kevin Vallier and Michael Weber (eds.) Religious Exemptions, Oxford University Press (2018), 37-58.
• Entries on “Property Rights, Lockean" (with Jacob Vargas); “Government Failure;” “Gold Standard;” “Rent Control” and “Mises, Ludwig von (1881-1873)” in Sage Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society (2018).
• Legal Punishment of Immorality: Once more into the breach, Philosophical Studies 174:4 (2017), 983-1000.
• The Conflict between Chinese Cultural and Environmental Values in Wildlife Consumption (with Kirsten Conrad), in Paul Harris and Graeme Lang (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Environment and Society in Asia (2014), 321-335.
• The Normative Significance of Conscience (with Kevin Vallier), Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6:3 (2012), 1-22.
• Republican Equality, Social Theory and Practice 38:3 (2012), 432-454.
• Legal Toleration for Belief and Behavior, History of Political Thought 31:1 (2010), 87-106.
• Wealth and Poverty in the Liberal Tradition (with Loren Lomasky), The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy 13:4 (2009), 493-510.
• Hell and Divine Reasons for Action, Religious Studies 45:1 (2009), 51-61.
• Critical Study of Michael Gill, The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics, Philo: A Journal of Philosophy 10:2 (2008), 158-167.
• When Experiments in Living Go Awry, in Jonathan Riley (guest editor), Studies in the History of Ethics, Symposium: J.S. Mill's Ethics (December 2007), 1-33.
• Law, Liberty, and Christian Morality, Religious Studies 43:4 (2007), 395-415.
• Can a Good Christian Be a Good Liberal?  Public Affairs Quarterly 20:2 (2006), 163-174.
• A Metaethical Option for Theists, Journal of Religious Ethics 34:1 (2006), 3-20.
• Moral Judgment and Emotions, Journal of Value Inquiry 38:3 (2005), 375-381.
• Copping Out on the Anything Goes Objection, Philosophia Christi 6:2 (2004), 289-294.
• Three Concepts of Political Liberty, Journal of Markets and Morality 6:1 (2003), 117-142.
• Emotivism and Deflationary Truth, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83:3 (2002), 270-281.

“Popular” stuff

• Dance of Reason vlog (2023-)
• Locke and Land Acknowledgements, ProSocial Libertarians (Jul 25, 2022)
• Three Cheers for Adam Smith's Cities, Adam Smith Works (Nov 10, 2021)
• Dance of Reason blog (2013-2021)

Reviews

• J. B. Schneewind, Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy 9:2 (2012), 295-298.
• John Hare, God’s Call: Moral Realism, God’s Commands, and Human Autonomy, Philosophia Christi 5:1 (2003), 342-349.
• Linda Zagzebski, Emotion and Moral Judgment, Brown Electronic Article Review Service (BEARS), Jamie Dreier and David Estlund, editors, Posted July 22, 2003.
• Edward W. Younkins, Capitalism and Commerce, Journal of Markets and Morality 6:2 (2003), 695-698.
• Alexander Kaufman, Welfare in the Kantian State, Journal of Value Inquiry 36:4 (2002), 563-566.
• J. C. Lester, Escape From Leviathan: Liberty, Welfare and Anarchy Reconciled, Liberty 16:11 (2002), 41-44.