Center for Ethics-Philosophy Faculty Seminar: James Konow

Organized by the Tulane Philosophy Department, these seminars are a series of workshops where Center for Ethics Faculty Fellows and distinguished guest speakers present works in progress on ethics, political philosophy, political theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of law, and intellectual history. Papers are distributed one week beforehand to the participants who read the paper and prepare discussion questions for the presenter.

James Konow is a Professor of Economics at Loyola Marymount University, the former Chair of Economics and Ethics at Kiel University, Germany, and a 2023 – 2024 Faculty Fellow at the Murphy Institute Center for Ethics. Konow’s research primarily focuses on experimental and theoretical ethics analyses and is informed by economics, philosophy, and psychology. Konow has published in top-rated journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Public Economics in addition to interdisciplinary journals in philosophy, psychology, and sociology.