David Schmidtz

David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics, and founding director of Arizona’s Freedom Center. He works mainly in ethics, environmental ethics, rational choice, and political philosophy.

After graduating from Arizona in 1988, I spent six years at Yale, the first three as assistant prof, the next three as associate prof. Along the way, I spent a year at Chapel Hill, one at Kansas State, three semesters at Bowling Green, then returned to the U of A in 1995. I taught first year property at Florida State College of Law in fall 2007.