Chad Van Schoelandt

Director, Center for Ethics

Chair, Philosophy Department; Associate Professor of Philosophy
The Murphy Institute
Center for Ethics
Phone
504-862-3379
Office Address
Newcomb 105B
Chad Van Schoelandt

Biography

Chad Van Schoelandt is an associate professor in Tulane University's Department of Philosophy, and affiliated with Tulane's City, Culture, and Community Ph.D. Program, Tulane's Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values, and George Mason University's F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He is also Chair of the Philosophy Department, a Philosophy Major Advisor, and the faculty advisor for the Tulane Philosophy Club.

Van Schoelandt did his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Jerry Gaus, graduating in 2015. Prior to that, he received his M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (Thesis Supervisor: Julius Sensat). His B.A. is from the University of California, Davis.

Publications

Selected Publications

  • “Between Traditional and Minimal Moralities” Analysis 79: 128-40 (2019)
  • "Moral Accountability and Social Norms" Social Philosophy & Policy 35 (2018)
  • "Consensus on What? Convergence for What?: Four Models of Political Liberalism" (with Gerald Gaus), Ethics (2017)
  • "Justification, coercion, and the place of public reason," Philosophical Studies 172: 1031-1050. (2015)
  • "Markets, community, and pluralism," Philosophical Quarterly 64: 144-151. (2014)
  • "Political liberalism, ethos justice, and gender equality," (with Blain Neufeld), Law and Philosophy 33: 75-104. (2014)