P ierce R andall
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| Alden March Bioethics Institute |
| Albany Medical College |
| 47 New Scotland Ave. |
| Albany, NY 12208-3478 |
| PhD | University of Pennsylvania (Philosophy) | 2019 |
| Dissertation Title: | Egalitarian Liberalism and Economic Freedom | |
| Description: | This dissertation defends an egalitarian conception of economic | |
| liberty and discusses institutional arrangements that would best | ||
| realize it. | ||
| Dissertation Committee: | Samuel Freeman (supervisor), Kok-Chor Tan, Alex Guerrero | |
| MA | Georgia State University (Philosophy) | 2013 |
| Thesis title: | Do Political Liberals Need the Truth? | |
| Thesis Committee: | Christie Hartley (advisor), Andrew Altman, Andrew I. Cohen | |
| BA | Georgia State University | 2011 |
| Areas of Specialization: | Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics |
| Areas of Competence: | Ethics, Early Modern Ethics and Political Philosophy |
| Ethics Fellow | Albany Medical College (AMBI) | 2021 - present |
| Fellow | U. S. Naval Academy (Stockdale Center) | 2019 - 2021 |
"Reciprocity and the Ethics of Giving During Pandemics" (with Justin Bernstein), Journal of Social Philosophy. Published online March 19, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12408
This paper argues that individuals have obligations grounded in reciprocity to provide charitable assistance to those who are burdened by social distancing, in virtue of the fact
that social distancing creates a non-excludable good in the form of reduced viral transmission rate.
"Against the Public Goods Conception of Public Health" (with Justin Bernstein), Public Health Ethics 13, no. 3 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phaa021
This paper critiques the view that public health essentially involves the production of public goods related to health or medicine. We argue that the idea of public goods does
little work in delimiting the concept of public health in these theories, and that the idea that public agencies tasked with promoting public health ought to focus on the production
of public goods is insufficiently motivated.
"Restating Statist Theories of Territory," comment on Margaret Moore's A Political Theory of Territory, Philosophy & Public Issues 6, no. 1 (2016).
In this paper, I argue that both statist and nationalist theories of territorial jurisdiction rights (which hold that states or peoples, respectively, are the primary bearer of
territorial rights) are inadequate, and sketch a hybrid view that avoids the problems of both camps.
"The Reasonable Bases of Populist Elite Resentment" (accepted for edited volume)
This paper argues that, although populist movements are substantively wrong on many issues and evince a troubling lack of commitment to democratic norms, they are motivated by
popular resentment of elite behavior and norms. The paper analyzes populist resentment as a negative reactive attitude, and argues that the bases of elite resentment are, on many
issues, reasonable.
"Justifications for Harming and Intelligence Ethics" (accepted for edited collection on intelligence ethics)
This chapter examines different rationales for overcoming the presumption against doing harm in intelligence collection and their limitations when applied to human intelligence
collection (HUMINT).
| June 2021 | "Locke's Jansenist Conception of Charity" |
| John Locke Society, Naples (online) | |
| Sept. 2020 | "Carbon Footprints and Individual Responsibility for Emissions" |
| Manchester Centre for Political Theory | |
| Sept. 2020 | "Individual Responsibility and Climate Change" (workshop co-chair) |
| Manchester Centre for Political Theory | |
| August 2020 | "The Non-Identity Problem, Climate Change, and Collective Action" |
| Rocky Mountain Ethics, University of Colorado | |
| Apr. 2019 | "Evidential Decision Theory, Managing the News, and the Rationality of Voting" |
| PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans | |
| Aug. 2018 | "Coercion as Rough Treatment: Threats to Self and Others" |
| Rocky Mountain Ethics, University of Colorado | |
| Mar. 2018 | "Ideal Theory, Liberal Ideology, and Internal Critique" |
| PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans | |
| Feb. 2018 | "An Externality Tax on Guns: The Pollution Model" |
| Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Chicago | |
| Sept. 2017 | "The Full Compliance Assumption Revisited" (with Chetan Cetty) |
| Manchester Centre for Political Theory | |
| Sept. 2017 | "Assessing the Relevance of Ideal Theory" (workshop co-chair) |
| Manchester Centre for Political Theory | |
| Sept. 2017 | "The Pollution Model of Gun Control" |
| Rocky Mountain Ethics, University of Colorado | |
| Apr. 2017 | "A Hawks & Doves Game for Peer Disagreement" |
| Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology Workshop | |
| Mar. 2017 | Comments on Lisa Rosenlee's 'Confucian Political Authority, |
| Social Cohesion, and Dependency Care' | |
| Penn Minorities and Philosophy (MAP): Global Feminisms | |
| Oct. 2016 | "Fairly Distributing the Benefits and Burdens of Gun Ownership" |
| Penn Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Workshop | |
| Aug. 2016 | "Justifying Emigration Restrictions" |
| Rocky Mountain Ethics, University of Colorado | |
| Nov. 2015 | Panel Presentation on Mary Astell |
| Penn Women in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop | |
| June. 2015 | "The Downstream Effects of State Secession" |
| University College of Cork |
| Spring 2021 | JUKISP Instructor | United States Naval Academy |
| Spring 2021 | Introduction to Ethics | United States Naval Academy |
| Summer 2020 | The Social Contract | University of Pennsylvania |
| Spring 2018 | Environmental Ethics | University of Pennsylvania |
| Summer 2017 | The Social Contract | University of Pennsylvania |
| Spring 2013 | Introduction to Philosophy | Georgia State University |
| Fall 2012 | Introduction to Philosophy (two sections) | Georgia State University |
| Summer 2012 | Introduction to Philosophy | Georgia State University |
| Spring 2016 | Bioethics | University of Pennsylvania |
| Fall 2015 | Philosophy of Law | University of Pennsylvania |
| Spring 2015 | Philosophy of Social Science | University of Pennsylvania |
| Fall 2014 | Justice, Law, and Morality | University of Pennsylvania |
With John Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth:
| Summer 2019 | Exploring Ethics | (instructor) |
| Summer 2019 | Global Politics and Human Rights | (instructor) |
| Summer 2018 | Introduction to Philosophy | (teaching assistant) |
| Summer 2016 | Global Politics and Human Rights | (instructor) |
| Spring 2016 | Formal Logic I | (outside tutor) |
| Reviewer for: | |
| Public Health Ethics | 2020 |
| Journal of Applied Philosophy | 2020 |
| Journal of Ethics | 2020 |
| Philosophy Compass | 2017 |
| Graduate Representative to the Philosophy Faculty | 2017-2018 |
| Philosophy & Film Series Organizer | 2016-2017 |
| Penn Social Advisory Committee Research Assistant | 2015-2017 |
| Organizing Committee: 2013 GSU Philosophy Graduate Conference | 2012-2013 |
Samuel Freeman
Avalon Professor of the Humanities
University of Pennsylvania
sfreeman@sas.upenn.edu
Kok-Chor Tan
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
kctan@sas.upenn.edu
Alex Guerrero
Professor
Rutgers University
aag198@philosophy.rutgers.edu
Rolf-Peter Horstmann
Professor
Humbolt University of Berlin
horstmannr@cms.hu-berlin.de
Edward Barrett
Volgenau Director of Strategy and Research
Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership
United States Naval Academy
ebarrett@usna.edu