David Schmidtz
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David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. He earned his PhD at Arizona under the direction of Joel Feinberg and Allen Buchanan and taught at Yale and Bowling Green State University before returning to Arizona.
He is author of Rational Choice and Moral Agency (Princeton), co-author of Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (Cambridge, a “For & Against” book with Robert Goodin) and editor of a volume on Robert Nozick in the Cambridge University Press "Contemporary Philosophy in Focus" series. He also co-edited Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works (Oxford) with Elizabeth Willott. His most recent work is Elements of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His first book, The Limits of Government: An Essay on the Public Goods Argument (Westview, 1991), combined his interests in moral philosophy and economic analysis.
He has published widely in many journals, including the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Political Theory. As of 2004, eighteen articles have been (or are in the process of being) reprinted. His current projects are 'The Purpose of Moral Theory and A Brief History of Liberty, with co-author Jason Brennan.
Schmidtz has also written on rational choice theory and environmental ethics.
In addition to his teaching, he directs a program on The Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona.
