Work Experience

  • Director of the Program in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Suffolk University, Boston.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Suffolk University, Boston.
  • Post-doctoral fellowship at the Political Theory Project, Brown University.
  • Research Assistant,  on reparative justice, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee
  • Research Assistant, chapters on judicial review and international law, for David A. Reidy's Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
  • Research Assistant, on international law, ethics and justice, for Ib Martin Jarvad, Department of Philosophy, Roskilde University, Denmark


Education

Degree University Date
PhD in Philosophy University of Pennsylvania May 2011
MA in Philosophy University of Tennessee Summer 2006
MA in Communication studies Roskilde University, Denmark Spring 2003
Bachelor in Philosophy Roskilde University, Denmark Summer 1999

 

Publications

“The Ideal of Peace and the Morality of War”, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, forthcoming (accepted September 2015).

“Singularity without Equivalence: The Complex Unity of Kant’s Categorical Imperative”, in The Journal of Value Inquiry, forthcoming (published online September 10th 2015).

“From Justice to Fairness: Does Kant’s Doctrine of Right Imply a Theory of Distributive Justice?”, co-authored with Mike Nance, in Kate Moran ed. Kant on Nature and Freedom, forthcoming (publisher not yet settled, but Cambridge University Press has expressed interest).

“Liberalism and Economic Liberty”, co-authored with John Tomasi, in S. Wall & C. Kukathas eds. The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism (CUP, 2015).

“Are Economic Liberties Basic Rights?”, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, forthcoming (published online 15 April 2013).

“The Metaphysics of Vice: Kant and the Problem of Moral Freedom”, Rethinking Kant, Vol. 3, Oliver Thorndike ed., (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).

“Absolute Freedom of Contract: Grotian Lessons for Libertarians”, Critical Review, vol. 25 (1), 2013, pp. 107-119.

"Negative Perfectionism”, Philosophy & Public Issues, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012, pp. 101-122.

“Outline of the Field of Reparative Justice,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law, spring 2010, pp. 1-4; co-authored with David A. Reidy [this is a precis of the article that won the Berger Prize].

“Reply to Our Critics,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law, spring 2010, pp 10-12, co-authored with David A. Reidy.

“Reasonable Disagreement and Metaphysical Immodesty: A Comment on Talbott’s Which Rights Should be Universal”, Human Rights Review, Gary Herbert ed., vol. 9, no. 2, June 2008.

“The Structural Diversity of Historical Injustices”, Journal of Social Philosophy: Special Issue Reparations, edited by Rahoul Kumar and Kok-Chor Tan, general editor Carol Gould, vol. XXXVII, 3, pp. 360-376, Fall 2006 (The North American Society for Social Philosophy), Co-authored with David A. Reidy, University of Tennessee. This article was Awarded the 2008 Fred Berger Memorial Prize of the American Philosophical Association.

“Oplysningens arv – Kant og den politiske frihed [The Inheritance from Enlightenment – Kant and Political Freedom]”, in FILOSOFI, no. 3, September 2003.

The Fred Berger Memorial Prize

Winner of the American Philosophical Association Fred Berger Memorial Prize 2009. Awarded for the best paper in philosophy of law published in 2006 or 2007. I share this prize with Professor David A. Reidy for our article “The Structural Diversity of Historical Injustices.”

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