PHD University:
University of California, San Diego
Major Publications:
Voltaire's Candide: Broadview Edition. 2009, Broadview Press.
“Real Institutions and Really Legitimate Institutions,”
David Mark, ed. The Mystery of Capital and The Construction of Social Reality. Open Court, 2008.
The entrenched cultural influence of an erroneous reading of social contract theory yields a pair of myths: that people’s choices alone generate social institutions, and that government precedes and underwrites both the reality and the legitimacy of all other social institutions. Prior institutional and socio-technical creations provide the material on which changes in institutions may be enacted, and political legitimacy concerns ethics more fundamentally than positive law.
Membre des sociétés académiques:
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
Courses Taught:
History and Philosophy of Science, Rights, Rebellion and Civil Disobedience, The Evolution of Social Organization, Theory of Knowledge
