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Department Directory
Research Professor
Richard Arneson is the Valtz Family Chair of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, as well as a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. His research and teaching focus on ethics and social and political philosophy.
Research Professor
Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University as well as a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. His teaching and research focus on political philosophy, philosophy of international law, social moral epistemology, and bioethics.
Research Professor
Cheshire Calhoun is a Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, as well as a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. Her teaching and research focus on normative ethics, moral psychology, feminist philosophy, and lesbian and gay studies.
Professor of Philosophy
Tom Christiano is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and the director of the Freedom Center's Research Seminar. His teaching and research focus on moral and political philosophy with emphases on democratic theory, distributive justice, and global justice.
Keith Hankins is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Arizona. His interests lie at the intersection of political philosophy, economics, and moral psychology. He is currently on leave, working on a graduate degree in economics at Rutgers.
Center Associate
Cathleen Johnson is the Academic Director for the BASIS Educational Group. She also designs workshops and courses that help meet Arizona's need for highly qualified K-12 economics teachers.
Research Professor
David Keyt is currently Research Professor in the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, a post he assumed after retiring from the University of Washington at the beginning of 2013. While on the faculty in Seattle he was able to take leave to teach at Cornell University, the University of Hong Kong, Princeton University, and the Los Angeles and Irvine campuses of the...
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Robert F. Lusch is Executive Director of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship in The Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona where also holds the Pamela and Jim Muzzy Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation. His research program is around innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurial behavior.
Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy
Michael McKenna is Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He works in free will, metaphysics, and ethics.
Research Professor
Fred Miller is a Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, the Executive Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. His teaching and research focus on ancient Greek philosophy (especially Aristotle), political philosophy, business ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy in science fiction.
Research Professor
Elijah Millgram is the E.E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah and a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. His research focuses on practical reasoning and ethics.
Research Professor
Jim Otteson is a Professor of Philosophy and Economics, and Co-Chair of the Department of Philosophy, at Yeshiva University as well as a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. His teaching and research focus on the history of modern philosophy, political philosophy, and the history and philosophy of economics.
Research Professor
Ellen Frankel Paul is a Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University, the Deputy Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. Her research and teaching focus on property theory, feminism, and American and Eastern European history.
Research Professor
Jeffrey Paul is a Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, the Associate Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. His research and teaching focus on ethics, political philosophy, and law.
Associate Director
Carmen Pavel is a political philosopher who specializes in liberal theory and contemporary
challenges to it, ethics and public policy, ethical and political pluralism, multiculturalism,
international justice, the authority of international institutions, and environmental ethics.
She received her Ph.D. at Brown University and then served as a postdoctoral fellow and
lecturer in the Program in...
Professor of Philosophy
Guido Pincione is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He works at the interface of law, moral and political philosophy, and rational choice theory.
Professor of Philosophy
Dan Russell is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona. He specializes in ancient philosophy and ethics, and his work focuses on ancient philosophy mainly as a source for expanding contemporary options for thinking about how to improve our lives. He has written on Plato’s ethics and psychology (Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life, Oxford...
Center Director
David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics, founding director of Arizona’s Freedom Center, and editor of Social Philosophy and Policy. He also has a courtesy appointment at the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship in the Eller College of Management. He works mainly in ethics, environmental philosophy, rational choice, and political philosophy.
Research Professor
Hillel Steiner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. His research and teaching focus on freedom, rights, and social justice.
Research Professor
Virgil Storr is a Research Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as the Don C. Lavoie Research Fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. His teaching and research focus on political economy and economic history.
Research Professor
Chin Liew Ten is a Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore as well as a Research Professor at the Freedom Center. His teaching and research interests are in legal and political philosophy, especially in issues relating to liberty and toleration.
