Chad Van Schoelandt

Chad Van Schoelandt is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Tulane University's Department of Philosophy, and Director of The Murphy Institute's Center for Ethics. His research is in social and political philosophy — particularly the public reason and social contract traditions — and at the intersections of philosophy, politics, and economics. His current book, The Open Community, argues that liberalism provides the institutional framework for community formation rather than destroying it.

As Director of the Center for Ethics, Professor Van Schoelandt oversees the Visiting Faculty Fellows program, CE Public Lecture Series, and Tulane University Ethics Bowl (TUEB) program — a vertically integrated program connecting Tulane faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates with local high school teams across the New Orleans area. He is also also 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. 

Van Schoelandt did his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and received his M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. His B.A. is from the University of California, Davis.

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