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PETER VALLENTYNE (January 4, 2021) PETER VALLENTYNE (January 4, 2021) Department of Philosophy Vallentynep at missouri dot edu University of Missouri Philosophy Dept.: (573) 882-2871 Columbia, MO 65211-4160 Fax: (573) 884-8949 PERSONAL Dual citizen of Canada and U.S.A. General proficiency in French, limited working proficiency in Italian and Spanish, elementary proficiency in modern Greek. EDUCATION Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh, 1984. MA: University of Pittsburgh, 1981. BA: McGill University, 1978. Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (completion of professional exams), 1976. INSTRUCTIONAL POSITIONS Florence G. Kline Professor of Philosophy, University of Missouri: 2003- Visiting Professor, Xiamen University, China, summer school (2017) Visiting Professor, “Justice: Theory and Applications”, Summer University, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (2011, 2013). Full Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University: 2000-2003 Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University: 1990-2000. Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University: 1988-1990. Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario: 1984-1988. ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND EXPERIENCE Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy, U. Missouri (Fall 2018, Spring 2012, 2005- 2010) Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy, U. Missouri (2012-14) Director, Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University: 1999-2000. Chair, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University: 1988-1999. Harvard Management Development Program (3 weeks): 1994. Administrative Associate to the President, Virginia Commonwealth University: Fall 1992 Actuarial Supervisor, Financial Forecasting Department, Great West Life Assurance Company: 1973-75. AWARDS AND GRANTS Faculty Award, University of Missouri-Columbia, Mizzou Alumni Association, 2019. Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2012-13. Liberty Fund contract ($44,500) for colloquium on liberty, self-ownership, and the right to property, 2002. Schalkenbach Foundation publication grant ($10,000 for research leave), 1999. Schalkenbach Foundation publication grant ($5,100 for manuscript preparation costs), 1999. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship ($20,000 for research leave), 1997. National Endowment for the Humanities, Education Division grant ($115,000) for faculty workshops on teaching ethics across the curriculum, 1996-99, with John Accordino. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities public lecture grants: 1995 ($1800), 1996 ($1500). Research Council of Canada grant for conference on contractarian thought ($10,000), 1987. EDITORIAL WORK Co-Editor: Economics and Philosophy (2003-08). Associate Editor: Journal of American Philosophical Association (2015-19), Social Choice and Welfare (2014-19), Ethics (2010-15), Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (2000- 03). Advisory Board of Editors: Economics and Philosophy (2015-) Board of Editors: Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy (2020-), Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences (2016-), Molinari Review (2015-), Ethics (2003-10, 2015-), De Ethica: A Journal of Philosophical, Theological and Applied Ethics (2014-), Legal Theory (2008), Social Theory and Practice (2006-), Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2004-), Utilitas (1994-), Economics and Philosophy (1998-2003, 2008-2014), International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Review Board) (2009). EDITED BOOKS Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, annual volume 2015-21 (vol. 1-7), co-edited with David Sobel and Steve Wall, Oxford University Press. Equality and Justice: Justice in General, Routledge, 2003. Equality and Justice: The Demands of Equality, Routledge, 2003. Equality and Justice: Distribution to Whom?, Routledge, 2003. Equality and Justice: Distribution of What?, Routledge, 2003. Equality and Justice: Social Contract and the Currency of Justice, Routledge, 2003. Equality and Justice: Desert and Entitlement, Routledge, 2003. The Origins of Left Libertarianism: An Anthology of Historical Writings, co-edited with Hillel Steiner, Palgrave Publishers Ltd., 2000. Left Libertarianism and Its Critics: The Contemporary Debate, co-edited with Hillel Steiner, Palgrave Publishers Ltd., 2000. Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier’s Morals by Agreement, Cambridge University Press, 1991. ARTICLES 1. “Roemer on the Rationality of Cooperation” Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics, 13 (2020): page numbers are pending. 2. “Self-Prediction and Self-Control”, with Martin Peterson, in Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality, edited by Jose Luis Bermudez (Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 48- 71. 3. “Neurointerventions: Punishment, Mental Integrity, and Intentions”, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience (AJOB Neuroscience), https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2018.1496185, 2018 (1500 words). 4. “Ripstein on Private Wrongs and Tort Law”, Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought, https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2018.1451467, 2018 (4,660 2 words). 5. “Discrimination and Rights”, Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination, edited by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Routledge Press, 2018), pp. 132-39. 6. “Libertarianism, left and right”, with Joseph Mazor, in The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice, edited by Serena Olsaretti (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 129-51. 7. “Paternalism and Political Philosophy: Libertarian Perspectives”, Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Paternalism, edited by Kalle Grill and Jason Hanna (Routledge Press, 2018), pp. 182-93. 8. “Neurointerventions, Self-Ownership, and Enforcement Rights”, in Treatment for Crime: Philosophical Essays on Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice, edited by David Birks and Tom Douglas (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2018), pp. 124-39. 9. “Libertarianism and Taxation”, in Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Martin O'Neill and Shepley Orr (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 98-110. 10. “A Tree Can Make a Difference”, with Luc Lauwers, Journal of Philosophy 114 (2017): 33- 42. 11. “Introduction” (sole author), Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 2, edited by David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne, and Steve Wall (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 1-5. 12. “Decision Theory without Finite Standard Expected Value”, with Luc Lauwers, Economics and Philosophy 32 (2016): 383-407. 13. “Self-Defense against Rights-Intrusions (Non-Culpable and Culpable)” in The Ethics of Self- Defense, edited by Christian Coons and Michael Eric Weber (Oxford University Press, 2016): 86-109. 14. “Justice, Interpersonal Morality, and Luck Egalitarianism”, in Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage: G. A. Cohen’s Egalitarianism, edited by Alex Kaufman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 40-49. 15. “Liberal Resourcism: Problems and Possibilities”, with Bertil Tungodden, Journal of Social Philosophy 44 (2013): 348-69. 16. “On Mack on Locke on Property”, Liberty Matters (on-line forum at oll.libertyfund.org), January 2013 [Commissioned 1900 word reaction essay to an essay by Eric Mack.] 17. “On the Duty of Altruism”, Journal of Social Philosophy 44 (2013): 118-20. 18. “Critical notice of Matthew D. Adler’s Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost- Benefit Analysis” Analysis Reviews 1 (2013): 1-7 (doi: 10.1093/analys/ant027). 19. “Taxation, Redistribution, and Property Rights”, in Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law, edited by Andrei Marmor (Routledge, 2012), pp. 291-301. 20. “Left-Libertarianism”, Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, edited by David Estlund, (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 152-68. 21. “Equal Negative Liberty and Welfare Rights”, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (2011): 237-41. 22. “Libertarianism and the Justice of a Basic Income”, Basic Income Studies, 6 (2011): 1-11. 23. “Nozick’s Libertarian Theory of Justice”, in Anarchy, State, and Utopia—A Reappraisal, edited by Ralf Bader and John Meadowcroft (Cambridge University Press: 2011), pp. 145- 67. 24. “Enforcement Rights against Non-Culpable Non-Just Intrusion”, Ratio 24 (2011): 422-442. (Republished, along with the rest of the journal issue, in Developing Deontology: New Essays in Ethical Theory, edited by Brad Hooker (Wiley-Blackwell: 2012), pp. 73-93.) 25. “Responsibility and False Beliefs”, in Justice and Responsibility, edited by Carl Knight and 3 Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 174-86. 26. “Sen on Sufficiency, Priority, and Equality”, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Amartya Sen, edited by Christopher Morris (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 138-69. 27. “Broome on Moral Goodness and Population Ethics”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (2009): 739-746. 28. “Left-Libertarianism as a Promising Form of Liberal Egalitarianism”, Philosophical Exchange (2009): 56-71. 29. “On the Possibility of Non-Aggregative Priority for the Worst Off”, with Marc Fleurbaey and Bertil Tungodden, Social Philosophy and Policy 26 (2009): 258-285. Simultaneously published in Utilitarianism: The Aggregation Problem, edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr., and Jeffrey Paul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 258-285. 30. “Responsibility and Compensation Rights”, in Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice, edited by Ian Carter, Matthew Kramer, and Stephen de Wijze (Routledge, 2009), pp. 85-98. 31. “Left-Libertarianism and Liberty”, in Debates in Political Philosophy, edited by Thomas Christiano and John Christman (Blackwell Publishers, 2009), pp. 137-151. 32. “Libertarian Theories of Intergenerational
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