Kit Wellman is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. He specializes in ethics with a focus on political and legal philosophy, and his work addresses topics including political legitimacy, immigration, punishment, secession, and the duty to obey the law. Wellman has taught philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis for the past two decades. A graduate of the University of Arizona (PhD 1994), he is especially enthusiastic to return to Tucson and collaborate with the distinguished faculty of the Freedom Center and the Department of Philosophy.
