Evan Behrle

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I'm a PhD student in NYU's philosophy department. Starting in fall 2025, I will be a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

I work in moral and social / political philosophy. My dissertation is about the old idea that workers should be rewarded according to their productive contributions. I argue that, despite appearances, this idea cannot vindicate significant income inequality—that it has egalitarian implications, rather than inegalitarian ones.

I did my undergraduate degree in politics at the University of Virginia followed by an MPhil in political theory from Oxford. Before coming to NYU I was special advisor for opioid policy / acting director of opioid overdose prevention at the Baltimore City Health Department.

Here is my CV. My last name is pronounced "burl."

Papers

Desert and Economic Interdependence.
The Journal of Philosophy. Forthcoming.
Winner of the 2024 Erik Olin Wright Prize.

Work in Progress

  • Slavery, Causation, and Contribution. Comments welcome.
  • A paper on economic exploitation
  • A paper on basic equality and the "variation problem"

    • Teaching

    As sole instructor:

    Ethics (Summer 2024)
    Political Philosophy (Summer 2021)

    As recitation instructor:

    Political Philosophy (Spring 2025, Instructor: Samuel Scheffler)
    Minds and Machines (Fall 2024, Instructor: David Chalmers)
    Metaphysics (Spring 2024, Instructor: Zachary Goodsell)
    History of Early Modern European Philosophy (Spring 2022, Instructor: Don Garrett)
    Philosophy of Language (Fall 2021, Instructor: Matt Mandelkern)
    Race and Racism (Spring 2021, Instructor: Kwame Anthony Appiah)
    Ethics and Society (Fall 2020, Instructor: Daniel Viehoff)

    Outreach:

    Broome Street Academy, Philosophy Club (2021-22)