Collaborators - John Thrasher

I have had the good fortune of working with a number of excellent scholars across philosophy, economics, political science, and information technology. Below are my primary collaborators and our joint work.

Klaus Abbink Professor of Economics Monash University (Deceased)

“Peer Punishment Promotes Enforcement of Bad Social Norms” (2017) Nature Communications 8.

“Informal Sanctions and Bad Social Norms” ARC Discovery Project DP170102834

Chris Freiman Professor West Virginia University

“The Right to Own the Means of Production” (2019) in Queralt and Van Der Vossen (eds.) Economic Liberties as Human Rights. Routledge.

Lata Gangadharan Professor of Economics Monash University

“Peer Punishment Promotes Enforcement of Bad Social Norms” (2017) Nature Communications 8.

“Informal Sanctions and Bad Social Norms” ARC Discovery Project DP170102834

Julián García Associate Professor of Information Technology Monash University

“Greenbeards and Signaling: Why Morality isn’t Indispensable” (2018) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41, E103.

Gerald Gaus Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona (Deceased)

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: An Introduction. Princeton University Press (2021).

“Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2017).

“On The Calculus of Consent” in Levy (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory (2017).

“Rational Choice and the Original Position” in Hinton (ed.) The Original Position, Cambridge (2015): 39-58.

“Social Evolution” in Gaus and D’Agostino (eds.) Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy (2021): 643-655.

Daniel Halliday Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

The Ethics of Capitalism. Oxford University Press (2020).

“Taxation and Distributive Justice,” The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. LaFollette (2018).

Toby Handfield Professor of Philosophy Monash University

“Asymmetry and Symmetry of Acts and Omissions in Punishment, Norms, and Judged Causality” (2021) Judgment and Decision Making 16(4): 796-822. With Shaun Nichols and Andrew Corcoran.

“Two of a Kind: Are Norms of Honor a Species of Morality?” (2019) Biology & Philosophy 34(3).

“Honor and Violence: An Account of Feuds, Duels, and Honor Killings” (2018) Human Nature 29(4).

“Greenbeards and Signaling: Why Morality isn’t Indispensable” (2018) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41, E103.

“Peer Punishment Promotes Enforcement of Bad Social Norms” (2017) Nature Communications 8.

“Informal Sanctions and Bad Social Norms” ARC Discovery Project DP170102834

Keith Hankins Associate Professor of Philosophy Chapman University

“Smithian Sympathy and the Emergence of Norms” (2022) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 105(3): 638-656.

“Hume’s Politics and Four Dimensions of Realism” (2022) The Journal of Politics 84(2): 1007-1020.

“When Justice Demands Inequality” (2015) The Journal of Moral Philosophy 12(2): 172-194.

Shaun Nichols Professor of Philosophy Cornell University

“Ownership and Convention” (2023) Cognition 237.

“What Does Labor Mixing Get You?” (2023) in Lindauer (ed.) Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy. Bloomsbury.

David Schmidtz Professor of Philosophy; Presidential Chair of Moral Science West Virginia University

“The Virtues of Justice” in Timpe and Boyd (eds.) Virtues and their Vices, Oxford (2014): 59-74.

“Bankers, Vampires, and Organ Sellers: Who Can You Trust?” in Garnett, Lewis, and Ealy (eds.) Commerce and Community, Routledge (2015): 336-341.

Creating Wealth: Ethical and Economic Perspectives, 2nd ed., Cognella (2013).

David Skarbek Michael Targoff Professor of Political Economy Brown University

“Informal Sanctions and Bad Social Norms” ARC Discovery Project DP170102834

Kevin Vallier Professor of Philosophy University of Toledo

“Political Stability in the Open Society” (2018) American Journal of Political Science 62(2): 398-409.

“The Fragility of Consensus: Public Reason, Diversity and Stability” (2015) The European Journal of Philosophy 23(4): 933-954.

Erik Kimbrough Professor of Economics Chapman University

“On the Moral Conventional Distinction: An Experimental Investigation” forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology.

Erte Xiao Professor of Economics Monash University

“Peer Punishment Promotes Enforcement of Bad Social Norms” (2017) Nature Communications 8.

“Informal Sanctions and Bad Social Norms” ARC Discovery Project DP170102834

Michael Moehler Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Virginia Tech

New Approaches to Social Contract Theory: Liberty, Equality, Diversity, and the Open Society. Oxford University Press (2024).

“Strategic Justice, Conventions, and Game Theory: An Introduction” (2024) Synthese 204(28).