Matt Zwolinski

 

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego

Co-Director, USD Institute for Law and Philosophy

San Diego, CA 92110

 mzwolinski@sandiego.edu

619-260-4094

 

Abbreviated Research Vita – For Full Vita in PDF format, click here

 

Education

 

PhD 2003, University of Arizona

            Committee: David Schmidtz (Director), Tom Christiano, Allen Buchanan.

 

BA (philosophy) and BS (political science) 1997, Santa Clara University

 

 

Areas of Specialization

 

Political Philosophy, Business Ethics, History of Political Philosophy

 

 

Areas of Competence

 

Philosophy of Law, Ethical Theory, Metaethics, History of Ethical Theory (especially Locke and Mill)

 

 

Statement of Research Interests

My research interests are generally in the intersection of ethics, law, and economics, with two specific areas of focus. The first involves the proper understanding and normative status of liberty and political libertarianism.  The second has to do with the nature and moral significance of exploitation for individual ethics and political institutions.

 

 

Publications

 

Books

Arguing About Political Philosophy, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2014).

A Brief History of Libertarianism (with John Tomasi) (under contract with Princeton University Press)

Exploitation: Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (under contract with Oxford University Press)

Exploitation, Capitalism, and the State

 

Papers in Progress

• “A Libertarian Case for the Moral Limits of Markets,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy (forthcoming in 2016).
• “Herbert Spencer and the Poor,” in Matthew Murray and Camilla Boisen, eds.., A Fair Share: Distributive Justice Debates in the History of Political and Social Thought.
• “A Critique of Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights,” Ayn Rand Philosophical Studies (forthcoming in 2016).
• “Property Rights, Coercion, and the Welfare State: The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income for All,” The Independent Review (forthcoming in 2015).
• “The Libertarian Non-Aggression Principle,” Social Philosophy and Policy (2015).
• “Libertarianism and Pollution,” in Andrew Light and Benjamin Hale, eds., The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics (Routledge, 2015).
  • Also forthcoming in Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly.
• “Virtue and Repugnance,” with David Schmidtz, in Reason, Value, and Respect: Kantian Themes from the Philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Mark Timmons and Robert Johnson, eds., (Oxford University Press, under contract).
• “Outside the Original Position: Rawlsian Justice and the Morality of Commerce,” in Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis, eds., Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers on Business Ethics (University of Chicago Press, under contract).

Published Papers

• “Liberalism,” in Alex Michalos, ed., Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research (Springer, 2013).
• “Are Usurious? Another New Argument for the Prohibition of High Interest Loans?” Business Ethics Journal Review, 1(4) (2013): 22-27.
• “Environmental Virtue Ethics: What It Is and What It Needs to Be,” with David Schmidtz, in Daniel Russell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 221-239.
•  “Exploitation,” with Alan Wertheimer, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (December, 2012).
•  “The Ethical and Economic Case Against Sweatshop Labor: A Critical Assessment,” with Benjamin Powell, Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 107, no. 4 (2012), pp. 449-472.
•  “Structural Exploitation,” Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 29, no. 1 (Winter, 2012), pp. 154-179.
  • Reprinted in Ellen Frankel Paul, ed., New Essays in Political and Social Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
• “Classical Liberalism and the Basic Income,” Basic Income Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 (December, 2011), pp. 1-14.
• “States of Nature,” Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 27-36 (2011).
• “Recent Work in Ethical Theory and its Implications for Business Ethics,” with Denis Arnold and Robert Audi, Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 4 (October, 2010), pp. 559-581.
• “Price Gouging and Market Failure” in Christi Favor, Gerald Gaus, and Julian Lamont, eds., Essays on Philosophy, Politics & Economics: Integration and Common Research Projects (Stanford: Stanford University Press), 2010.
• “Liberty,” in John Shand, ed., Central Issues in Philosophy (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 275-286.
• “Price Gouging, Non-Worseness, and Distributive Justice,” Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2 (April, 2009), pp. 295-306.
  • Reprinted in Lisa Newton, Elaine Englehardt and Michael Pritchard, eds., Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society, 11th edition and 12th edition (New York: McGraw Hill, 2012).
  • Reprinted in Stephen Satris, ed., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Moral Issues, 13th edition (New York, McGraw Hill, 2011).
• “The Ethics of Price Gouging,” Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3 (July, 2008), pp. 347-378.
  • Reprinted in David Schmidtz and John Thrasher eds., Creating Wealth: Ethical and Economic Perspectives, 2^nd ed. (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2014).
  • Reprinted in A.M. Viens and Michael Selgelid, Emergency Ethics, Volume I (London: Ashgate, 2012).
• “The Separateness of Persons and Liberal Theory,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 42, no. 2 (June, 2008), pp. 147-165.
• “Libertarianism,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.iep.utm.edu/libertar/ (March, 2008).
• “Respect for Persons and the Authority of Morality,” Reason Papers no. 29 (Fall 2007), pp. 71-82.
• “Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation,” Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 4 (October, 2007), pp. 689-727.
  • Reprinted in Laura Hartman and Joseph DesJardins, eds., Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility, 2nd edition (McGraw Hill, 2011), pp. 312-25.
  • Reprinted in Andrew Morriss, ed., Global Labor and Employment Law for the Practicing Lawyer (Kluwer Law International, 2010), pp. 597-647.
  • Reprinted in David Schmidtz and John Thrasher eds., Creating Wealth: Ethical and Economic Perspectives, 2^nd ed. (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2014).
  • Reprinted in Harriet Baber and Denise Dimon, eds.,  Globalization and International Development: The Ethical Issues (Broadview, 2013).
• “Why Not Regulate Private Discrimination?” San Diego Law Review, vol. 43, no. 4 (Fall, 2006), pp. 1043-1061.
• “Person-Neutrality and the Separateness of Persons,” Southwest Philosophical Studies, vol. 25 (2006), pp. 95-104.
• “Sweatshops,” in James Climent, ed., Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006).
  • Reprinted in Thomas Mappes & Jane S. Zembaty, Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy, 7th edition (New York: McGraw Hill, 2006), and 8th edition (2011).
• “Natural Law and Evolutionary Conservatism,” San Diego Law Review, vol. 42, no. 3 (2005), pp. 1143-1149.
• “Virtue Ethics and Repugnant Conclusions,” with David Schmidtz, in Philip Cafaro and Ronald Sandler, eds., Environmental Virtue Ethics, (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), pp. 107-117.

 

Reviews

• Review of Ralf Bader and John Meadowcroft (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2012.10.03)
• Review of Gijs Van Donselaar, The Right to Exploit: Parasitism, Scarcity, Basic Income (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Ethics, vol. 121, no. 1 (October, 2010), pp. 228-232.
• Review of George Brenkert and Tom Beauchamp, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2010.06.32).
• Review of Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (Harvard University Press, 2009), The Review of Metaphysics, vol. LXIII, no. 4 (2010), pp. 45-47.
• Review of Horacio Spector, Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 43, no.2 (June, 2009), pp. 255-262.
• Review Essay: Dale Jamieson, ed., A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001), Environmental Ethics vol. 25 (Spring 2003), pp. 99-104.