Evan Behrle
I am a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. I work in moral and political philosophy.
I received my PhD from the NYU Department of Philosophy in 2025. 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 122 (2025): 253–284. (Preprint.)
Corrigenda
1. "Overall level of productivity" on pp. 278 and 279 should be "sum of contributions to productivity." 2. The argument on p. 277 is naturally read as equivocating: the first premise is within-firm reasoning for homogenous labor, while the conclusion seems to be about contributions to productivity simpliciter. (The narrower reading of that conclusion is still evidence for the claim, on p. 278, that contributions to productivity are "small.")Winner of the 2024 Erik Olin Wright Prize. Selected for inclusion in the Philosopher's Annual, vol. 45.
This paper is summarized in Jacobin and the Law and Political Economy Project and criticized at the economics Substack Maximum Progress. See the comments of the latter for my response.