Department of Philosophy - University of Missouri-Columbia

  Peter Vallentyne

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Peter Vallentyne

Florence G. Kline Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

VallentyneP@missouri.edu
406 Strickland Hall
573-882-2871
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Research areas
ethics, social and political philosophy

Selected publications

  • "Brute Luck and Responsibility," Politics, Philosophy & Economics 7 (2008): 57-80.
  • "Libertarianism and the State," Social Philosophy and Policy 24 (2007): 187-205.
  • "On the Possibility of Paretian Egalitarianism," (with Bertil Tungodden), Journal of Philosophy 102 (2005): 126-54.
  • "Of Mice and Men: Equality and Animals," Journal of Ethics 9 (2005): 403-433.
  • "Why Left-Libertarianism Isn't Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant: A Reply to Fried," (with Hillel Steiner and Michael Otsuka), Philosophy and Public Affairs 33 (2005): 201-15.
  • "Capabilities vs. Opportunities for Well-being," Journal of Political Philosophy 13 (2005): 359-371.
  • "Brute Luck Equality and Desert," in Desert and Justice, edited by Sabrina Olsaretti (Oxford University Press, 2003): 169-185.
  • "Equality, Brute Luck, and Initial Opportunities," Ethics 112 (2002): 529-557.
  • "Intrinsic Properties Defined," Philosophical Studies 88 (1997): 209-219.
  • "Infinite Utility and Finitely Additive Value Theory," (with Shelly Kagan), Journal of Philosophy 94 (1997): 5-26.