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Christopher Coyne (Ph.D., George Mason University) is Assistant Professor of Economics at West Virginia University. He is also North American editor of The Review of Austrian Economics. Professor Coyne has recently published two books, Media, Development, and Institutional Change (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009) and After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (Stanford University Press, 2008). While at the Policy Center, he will be working on a forthcoming book project which is a follow-up to After War, and is tentatively titled The Ability to Protect: The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention. |
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Edward J. Lopez (Ph.D., George Mason University) is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at San Jose State University in California. His primary teaching and research areas include applied microeconomics, law and economics, microeconomic theory, public economics, public choice, and public finance. He has had numerous articles published in leading scholarly journals and is the editor of the forthcoming book, The Pursuit of Justice: Law and Economics of Legal Systems (Palgrave Macmillian, forthcoming 2010). While at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Professor Lopez will be working on a new book project as well as several articles for journal publication. |
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Anthony O'Hear (Ph.D., University of Warwick) is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Education at the University of Buckingham, UK. He is also the Honorary Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and has been the editor of Philosophy since 1995. Among the many books and articles he has written are Karl Popper (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980), Education, Society and Human Nature (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981), Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation (Clarendon Press, 1997), Philosophy in the New Century (Continuum, 2001), Plato's Children (Gibson Square Books, 2006), and The Landscape of Humanity: Art, Culture and Society (Imprint Academic, 2008). While at the Center, Professor O'Hear will be doing research on a project surveying the historical, cultural, ethical and spiritual reasons for (and arguments against) a relationship between religion and education. |
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Guido Pincione (Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires) is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He was a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University for the academic year 2009-2010. He will become Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona in the fall, 2010. He is the co-author (with Fernando R. Teson) of Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation: A Theory of Discourse Failure (Cambridge University Press, 2006). During his summer term at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, he will be completing work on three different projects involving contractarianism, political foundationalism, and institutional design; moral philosophy and legal interpretation; and ad hominem arguments and ethical holism. |
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Bradley Watson (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School) is Professor of Political Science at Saint Vincent College and holds the Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought. He is also a Fellow in Politics and Culture at the Center for Political and Economic Thought. His two most recent books are Ourselves and Our Posterity: Essays in Constitutional Originalism, editor (Lexington Books, 2009) and Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence (ISI Books, 2009). During his stay in Bowling Green, he will be working on a book project tentatively titled A New Republic? Progressivism and Its Critics. |