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Bas van der Vossen

Dr. Bas van der Vossen

Professor, Director, Law and the Liberal Arts Minor; Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy

Schmid College of Science and Technology; Department of Philosophy

Office Location: Wilkinson Hall 211

Office Hours: By appointment

Email: bvanderv@chapman.edu

Education:: University of Amsterdam, Master of Science
University of Amsterdam, Master of Arts
University of Oxford, Doctor of Philosophy

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: “Treating People as Resources”, in: The Routledge Companion to Migration, Sahar Akhtar (ed.), Routledge Press, (in production); “Women and Lockean Theory: John Locke, Rachel Speght, and Egalitarian Personhood”, with Katharine Gillespie, Locke Studies, Locke Studies 24 (2024): 1-26.; Political Philosophy: The Basics, Routledge Press, 20204; “Now It’s Personal: Property Rights and the Extended Self”, with David Shoemaker, Law and Philosophy 24 (2023): 177-203; “As Good As ‘Enough and As Good’”, The Philosophical Quarterly 71 (2021): 183–203; “Property, the Environment, and the Lockean Proviso”, Economics and Philosophy 37 (2021): 395 - 412; "Property" in: Christopher Melenovksy (ed.), The Routledge Handbook to Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Routledge Press, 2022; “Property Rights”, in: The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism, Ben Ferguson and Matt Zwollinski (eds.), Routledge Press, 2022; “Consent to Unjust Institutions”, Legal Theory 27 (2021): pp. 236 - 251; "Political Philosophy as Love of Wisdom”, Australasian Philosophical Review 4 (2020): 23-31; “Academic Activism Revisited”, Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (2020): 249-257; “The Problem of Self-Ownership”, with David Schmidtz, Social Philosophy and Policy 36 (2019): 1-8; Social Philosophy and Policy, Volume 36 - Issue 2 - Winter 2019; Jahel Queralt & Bas van der Vossen (eds), Economic Liberties and Human Rights, (Routledge Press, 2019); "Introduction" in: Jahel Queralt & Bas van der Vossen, Economic Liberties and Human Rights, (Routledge Press, 2019); van der Vossen, Bas, "Libertarianism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.); Bas van der Vossen & Jason Brennan, In Defense of Openness: Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty, (Oxford University Press, 2018); Bas van der Vossen, “Property and Business”, in: The Routledge Handbook of Business Ethics. Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis, Alexei Marcoux (eds.). Routledge Press, 2018.; Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, David Schmidtz, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism. Routledge Press, 2017; Fernando Tesón and Bas van der Vossen, Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers? Oxford University Press, 2017; Bas van der Vossen, “Libertarianism”, in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, William Thompson (ed.), 2017; Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, David Schmidtz, “Introduction: Respecting and Caring” in: Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, and David Schmidtz (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, (Routledge Press, 2017); Jason Brennan and Bas van der Vossen, “The Myths of the Self-Ownership Thesis” in: Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, and David Schmidtz (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, (Routledge Press, 2017), pp. 199-211