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CURRICULUM VITAE 2017

Bas van der Vossen

bvanderv@chapman.edu

Academic Positions
2017-present Associate Professor, Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy,
and Philosophy Department, Chapman University
2016-2017 Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
2013-14 Faculty Fellow, Murphy Institute, Tulane University
2010-2016 Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
2009-2010 Visiting Scholar, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State
University
2008-2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona.

Degrees
DPhil, Political Theory, University of Oxford, 2008
MA, Philosophy, 2004, University of Amsterdam, cum laude
MSc, Political Science, 2003, University of Amsterdam

Teaching Areas
Areas of Specialization: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Areas of Competence: Normative Ethics, Applied Ethics

Other Positions
2015-present Associate Editor, Social Philosophy and Policy
2017-present Editorial Board, Studies in Classical Liberalism, Palgrave-MacMillan-Springer

Monographs, Edited Works, etc.

Economic Liberties and Human Rights, edited with Jahel Queralt, (Routledge Press,
forthcoming)
In Defense of Openness, with Jason Brennan, (Oxford University Press, in production)
Debating Humanitarian Intervention, with Fernando Tesón, (Oxford University Press, 2017)
The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, edited with David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan,
(Routledge Press, 2017)

Published Articles & Chapters

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“Property and Business”, in: The Routledge Handbook of Business Ethics, Eugene Heath,
Byron Kaldis, Alexei Marcoux (eds.), (Routledge Press, 2018)
“Libertarianism”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, William Thompson (ed.), 2017
“Introduction: Respecting and Caring”, with Jason Brennan and David Shmidtz, in: Jason
Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, and David Schmidtz (eds.), The Routledge Handbook
of Libertarianism, (Routledge Press, 2017)
“The Myths of the Self-Ownership Thesis”, with Jason Brennan, in: Jason Brennan, Bas van
der Vossen, and David Schmidtz (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism,
(Routledge Press, 2017)
“Uncertain Rights Against Defense”, Social Philosophy and Policy 32 (2016): pp 129-145
“Depoliticization or Diversity?”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38 (2015): 41-42
“In Defense of the Ivory Tower: Why Philosophers Should Stay Out of Politics”, Philosophical
Psychology 28 (2015): 1045-1063
“Self-Determination and Moral Variation”, in Fernando Tesón (ed.), The Theory of Self-
Determination, (Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 13-31
“Immigration and Self-Determination”, Politics, Philosophy and Economics 14 (2014): 270-290
“Imposing Duties and Original Appropriation”, Journal of Political Philosophy 23 (2015): 64-85
“Locke on Territorial Rights”, Political Studies 63 (2015): 713–728
“John Locke”, in John Mandle & David Reidy (eds.), The Rawls Lexicon, (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2015)
“Libertarianism”, with Peter Vallentyne, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Zalta
(2014)
“The Morality of Humanitarian Intervention”, in Andrew I. Cohen & Christopher H. Wellman
(eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, 2nd edition, (Wiley-Blackwell,
2014), pp. 404-16
“There Is No Ethic of Lobbying”, Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 12 (2014): 359-
372
“Philosophical Anarchism”, with William A. Edmundson, In Duncan Pritchard (ed.), Oxford
Bibliographies in Philosophy, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)
“The Asymmetry of Legitimacy”, Law and Philosophy 31 (2012): 565-592
“Assessing Law’s Claim to Authority”, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 31 (2011): 481–501
“Associative Political Obligations”, Philosophy Compass 6/7 (2011): 477–487
“Associative Political Obligations: Their Potential”, Philosophy Compass 6/7 (2011): 488–496
“Legitimacy and Multi-Level Governance”, in: Maksymillian Del Mar (ed.), New Waves in
Philosophy of Law, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011)
“What Counts as Original Appropriation”, Politics, Philosophy & Economics 8 (2009): 355-373
“On Legitimacy and Authority: A Response to Krehoff”, Res Publica 14 (2008): 299-302

Other Publications (book reviews, publications in foreign language, etc.)

“The Original Appropriation of South African Native Lands” in: The Critique (forthcoming)
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“The (Im)morality of Environment Activism”, in: Bulletin for the Ecological Society of Australia
(November, 2016)
Review of D. Chatterjee (ed.), The Ethics of Preventive War, in Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews (2013)
“Facts for Global Justice”, in Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric 7 (2014): 67-74
“Democratie en de vrije wil” (co-authored with Jerome Scheltens), Idee 32:1 (2011)

Work in Progress:
“Productive Human Rights”, under review
“As Good As ‘Enough and As Good’”, in progress
“Unjust Consent”, in progress

Selected Invited Talks, Responses, and Conference Presentations

“As Good as “Enough and As Good””, Hampden & Sidney College, April 2017
“What’s the Point of the Lockean Proviso?”, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
April 2016
“Productive Human Rights”, Economic Liberties, Human Rights, and Dignity Workshop,
University of Arizona, March 2016
“The Tradedy of Stakeholder Theory”, Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, Wake
Forest University, March 2016
“What’s the Point of the Lockean Proviso?”, American Philosophical Association, Central
Division Meeting, March 2016
“On the Importance of the Probability of Success in War”, Conference on Responsibility
Beyond the State, University of Virginia, April 2015
“In Defense of Productive Human Rights”, Arizona State University, March 2015
“Community in Market Society”, Duke-UNC Chapel Hill PPE program, February 2015
“In Defense of Productive Human Rights”, Florida State Law School, February 2015
“In Defense of Productive Human Rights”, Tulane University, January 2015
“In Defense of Productive Human Rights”, Chapman University, December 2015
“Liability, Defense, and Uncertainty”, Social Philosophy and Policy Conference, University of
Arizona, December 2014
“Defense Under Uncertainty”, Osgoode Hall Law School, September 2014
“In Defense of Productive Human Rights”, The Ethics of Poverty Alleviation, Salzburg
University, Augustus 2014
“In Defense of Productive Human Rights”, Conference on Global Economic Justice, Centre of
Advanced Studies "Justitia Amplificata" Goethe University of Frankfurt, July 2014
“Why Philosophers Should Stay Out of Politics”, Tulane University, September 2013
“Why Philosophers Should Stay Out of Politics”, University of Richmond, September 2013
Respondent to Loren Lomasky & Fernando Teson, Justice at a Distance, George Mason
University, June 2013
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Respondent to Charles Beitz, Conference in honor of James Nickel, Duke University, March
2013
“The Kantian Case for Classical Liberalism”, George Mason University, PPE colloquium,
November 2012
“Why Philosophers Should Stay Out of Politics”, Guilford College, November 2012
“Imposing Duties and Original Appropriation”, University of Stockholm, September 2012
“Revisiting Lockean Territory”, MANCEPT workshop on Legitimacy, Authority, and Political
Obligation, September 2012
Respondent to Christopher H. Wellman, University of Richmond, January 2012
“Legitimacy and Rights”, Georgia State University, April 19 2011
Respondent to John Tasioulas, “Legitimacy, Sovereignty, and International Law”, Duke
University, April 17-18 2011
Respondent to John Horton, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, June 2011
Respondent to Michael Munger, “Euvoluntary Exchange and the Difference Principle”,
Greensboro Symposium on Property, Markets, and Morality
“The (Asymmetrical) Idea of Legitimacy”, Duke University, Philosophy Department, November
2010
“Assessing Law’s Claim to Authority”, Bowling Green State University, Philosophy
Department, April 2010
“Associative Political Obligations”, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March
2010
“The Asymmetry of Legitimacy”, Bowling Green State University, Philosophy Department,
December 2009

Academic Service
External Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure, University of Richmond, 2017
Co-organizer (with Jahel Queralt), Workshop “Economic Liberties and Human Rights”, Centre
for Ethics, University of Zurich, May 25-26, 2017.
Diversity Committee, Philosophy Department, UNC Greensboro, 2014-2016
GEC Rectification Committee, UNC Greensboro, 2015-2016
Honors Council, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC Greensboro, 2014-present
Honorary Degrees Committee, UNC Greensboro, 2011-14
Pre-Law Advisor, Philosophy Department, UNC Greensboro, 2012-present
Director Visiting Speakers Series, Philosophy Department, UNC Greensboro, 2011-13
Philosophy Department Faculty Representative, “Great Conversation Series”, 2011-present
Academic Advisor, Student Group “Students Helping Honduras”, 2011-12
Organizer Symposium “Property, Markets, and Morality”, March 18-20 2011
Dissertation Committee, Philosophy Department, Bowling Green State University 2010-
2014
Editor “Political Obligation”, PhilPapers.org, 2009-2012
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Refereeing work for: Journal of Political Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, American Political
Science Review, Ratio, Oxford University Press, Political Studies, Politics, Philosophy,
and Economics, Social Theory and Practice, Review of Politics, Canadian Journal of
Philosophy, Analysis, Journal of Politics, and others

Grants, Awards, Honors, etc.

2016 UNCG Faculty First Summer Research Award
2013-14 Faculty Fellowship, Murphy Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans
2013-14 Residential research fellowship, Netherlands Institute for Advanced
Studies (declined)
2013-present Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars
2012, 2013 UNC Greensboro New Faculty Grant
2011-12 BB&T Research Grant
2007-2008 Founders Award, British International Studies Association
2007 Winner of graduate student prize, Annual Conference of the Association for
Legal and Social Philosophy