Brian Kogelmann
- Assistant Professor, John Chambers College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, Affiliated Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Brian Kogelmann is an assistant professor in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. Brian’s research focuses on political philosophy, particularly contemporary approaches to social contract theory and contractarianism. He earned his BA in philosophy and political science from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Brian was a Mercatus Center Adam Smith fellow during the 2014-2015, 2015-2016, and 2016-2017 academic years and has also received a Bernard Marcus Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies.
Publications & Appearances
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We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth
Why pursue economic growth? For poor countries this is an easy question to answer, but it is more difficult for rich ones. Some
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Finding the Epistocrats
Concerned about widespread incompetence among voters in democratic societies, epistocrats propose quasi-democratic electoral
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Reparations to the Privileged?
Many believe that we owe reparations to groups who suffered significant injustice in the past. Oftentimes, groups who suffered
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Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom
Purchase the book at Amazon or at R&L. Published by Rowman & Littlefield in Economy, Polity, and Society The interdisciplinary
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East of Eden or West of Babel? Brian Kogelmann and Jayme Lemke on Idealized Philosophy
On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, Jayme Lemke and Brian Kogelmann enter the philosophical realm to tackle an…
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The future of political philosophy
Within the last decade or so, political philosophers have undergone intense disagreement over the proper methodology of
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Rawlsian originalism
How should judges reason in a well-ordered constitutional democracy? According to John Rawls’s famous remarks in Political
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Moral Diversity and Moral Responsibility
In large, impersonal moral orders many of us wish to maintain good will toward our fellow citizens only if we are reasonably
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Public Reason's Chaos Theorem
Citizens in John Rawls's well-ordered society face an assurance dilemma. They wish to act justly only if they are reasonably
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What We Choose, What We Prefer
This paper develops an account of what it is that rational agents choose and what it is that rational agents prefer. There are