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Arizona Freedom Center
845 N. Park Ave., Suite 280
P.O. Box 210158B
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: (520) 621-3129
Fax: (520) 626-8361
Core Faculty
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 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.
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.
