David Schmidtz is Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West Virginia University's Chambers College of Business and Economics.
11 Facts About David Schmidtz
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David Schmidtz studied with Joel Feinberg and Keith Lehrer, Holly Martin Smith, R Mark Isaac, and Vernon Smith.
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In 1988, David Schmidtz took a job as an assistant professor at Yale University.
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David Schmidtz left Yale in 1994, taught at Bowling Green State University, and joined the University of Arizona in 1995.
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David Schmidtz was promoted to Professor in 1998.
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David Schmidtz taught first-year property as a visiting professor at Florida State University College of Law in 2007.
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David Schmidtz is the founding director of the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona.
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David Schmidtz is author of Elements of Justice, Rational Choice and Moral Agency, co-author of Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility and editor of a volume on Robert Nozick in the Cambridge University Press "Contemporary Philosophy in Focus" series.
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David Schmidtz co-edited two editions of Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works with Elizabeth Willott ; a third edition of this book with co-editor Dan Shahar was published in 2018.
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David Schmidtz has written on rational choice theory and environmental ethics.
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David Schmidtz has published articles in many journals, including the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Political Theory along with reviews in journals such as Philosophical Review, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Mind.