
Joshua Preiss is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Minnesota State University. Prior to coming to MSU in 2010, Preiss taught for three years at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. His current research is in moral philosophy and public policy, in particular, issues of justice and personal responsiblity, political liberalism, multiculturalism, ethics and economics, and conceptions of political and economic freedom. Preiss has presented at such institutions as the University of Chicago, Oxford University, the University of Minnesota, Roskilde University (Denmark), the University of Edinburgh, the University of Minho (Portugal), Queens University Belfast, Jesuit University in Krakow (Poland), and the Winter Institute of Economics and Public Affairs. His work has appeared in Public Affairs Quarterly, Social Theory and Practice, Ethics, Res Publica, and the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. His forthcoming works include "Milton Friedman, Amartya Sen, and Left and Right in American Politics" in Left and Right: The Great Dichotomy Revisited (Cambridge). Preiss received his B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.