Michael Moehler

Michael Moehler, Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

_{Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

820 University City Boulevard (0348)

Blacksburg, VA 24061

540-231-7543 | moehler@vt.edu}

Michael Moehler is Professor, Founding Director, and Core Faculty member at the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching expertise lie in the history of moral and political philosophy, rational choice theory, public reason theory, distributive justice, the welfare state, political economy, and interdisciplinary topics in philosophy, politics, and economics. Professor Moehler is author of Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory (Oxford University Press) and Contractarianism (Cambridge University Press). For further information, please visit his personal website.

Principal Areas of Research Focus

Ethics and Political Philosophy
Social Contract Theory
Public Reason Theory
Political Economy
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Education

Ph.D., London School of Economics

Professional Roles

Director, Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Core Faculty, Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Affiliate, Department of Economics
Affiliate, ASPECT Program

Awards and Honors

DAAD John Stuart Mill Visiting Chair of Social Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg (Germany)

Publications

Books

Contractarianism (Cambridge University Press)

Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory (Oxford University Press)

Journal Articles

“Minimal Morality, Bargaining Power, and Moral Constraint: Replies to D’Agostino, Thrasher, Morris, and Vanderschraaf,” Analytic Philosophy 61 (1): 87-100

“Diversity, Stability, and Social Contract Theory,” Philosophical Studies 176 (12): 3285-3301

“Replies to Gaus, Van Schoelandt and Cooper: Prudence, Morality and the Social Contract,” Analysis 79 (1): 140-153

“The Rawls-Harsanyi Dispute: A Moral Point of View,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99 (1): 82-99

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