Dr. Jeppe von Platz

Benjamin Franklin Graduate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-07, 2008-09, 2010-11.

Thanks to Scandinavia Fellowship, 2007-08.

Beard Scholarship, University of Tennessee, Fall 2005.

Herman E. Spivey Fellowship, University of Tennessee, 2004-05.

American Philosophical Association Fred Berger Memorial Prize 2008. Awarded for the best paper in philosophy of law published in 2006-2007. I share this prize with David A. Reidy for our article "The Structural Diversity of Historical Injustices."

Graduate Student Travel Award, American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting 2006, Pacific Division Meeting, 2009, Pacific Division Meeting, 2011.

*=refereed conference; ^=invited talk

^ "Bloody Modality," comment on James S. Taylor's book manuscript Bloody Morality, at the Institute for Humane Studies workshop, April 2020.

* "The Principle of Merit and the Capital-Labor Split," the PPE Society Conference, March 2020.

* "Economic Justice and the Relation between Private and Public Right in Kant¿s Doctrine of Right," The 13th International Kant Congress, Oslo, August 2019. Also presented at the PPE Society Conference, March 2020

*"In Defense of Welfare State Capitalism," Philosophy, and Economics Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2019.

^"Gifts and Gratitude: On the Ethics of Gift-Acceptance," Philosophy, and Economics Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2019.

^"Towards a Kantian Theory of Economic Justice," Meeting of the North American Kant Society at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, New York, January 2019.

^"Alienation as a Political Concept," Harvard Economic Justice Workshop, May 2018. Also presented at The Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting in Montreal, June 2018.

*"Socialism vs. Social Democracy: Capitalism and the Problem of Alienation," the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2018.

*"What is the Social Democratic Alternative?," the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2017.

^"Kantian Fairness," the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2017

^"A Truly Kantian Theory of Distributive Justice," Colloquium on Kant¿s Practical Philosophy, Brandeis University, June 2016.

^"Robin Hood Justice," MIT, Political Philosophy Colloquium, March 2016.

*"Social Cooperation and Economic Rights: A Rawlsian Route to Social Democracy," at American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Chicago, March 2016. Previously presented at The Political Theory Project, Brown University, April 2015.

^"A Savage Made: Rousseau on the Aims and Methods of Negative Education," Philosophy of Education in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, October 2015.

*"Kant and the Question of Economic Inequality," XII International Kant Congress, Vienna, September 2015.

*"Basic Economic Rights: Work, Education, and Healthcare," IVR Conference, Washington DC, July 2015.

*"A Rawlsian Theory of Basic Economic Rights," Felician Ethics Conference, Felician College, April 2015.

^"Contractualism and Economic Liberty," The Political Theory Project, Brown University, March 2014.

*"The Basic Liberties Revisited," American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 2014.

^"From Justice to Fairness: Does Kant¿s Doctrine of Right Imply a Theory of Distributive Justice?," presented at Kant on Nature and Freedom, Brown University, October 2013. (Co-authored with Jerome Michael Nance; authorship was equally shared between us.)

*"Singularity without Equivalence: on the relations between the formulae of the categorical imperative in GroundworkII," Second Biennial Meeting of the North American Kant Society, Cornell University, May 2013.

*"The Metaphysics of Vice," Eastern Division Meeting of the North American Kant Association, Princeton, March 2012.

^"Are Economic Liberties Basic Rights?," Political Philosophy Workshop, Brown University, February 2012.

University Service – University of Richmond

PPEL Program Coordinator, Fall 2021-

Chair of the University Library Committee, Fall 2020-Spring 2021

Member of the Concept 30 Ad-Hoc Committee, Fall 2020-Spring 2021

Member of the Ethics and Information Technology working group, spring semester of 2020.

PPEL governing group member and member of the faculty advisory board, fall of 2017-

Ethics Working Group member 2017-

Library Committee member, fall of 2018-2021

Member of the Curricular Planning subcommittee, 2018/19.

Invited guest speaker and co-teacher, Bill Edmundson (Georgia State)

Invited guest speaker and co-teacher, Samuel Arnold (TCU)

Invited guest speaker and co-teacher, David A. Reidy (UTK)

To the Profession

Book manuscript reviewer for Routledge.

Book manuscript reviewer for Cambridge University Press.

Article referee for Synthese, Ethics, Politics Philosophy, and Economics, Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of International Relations and Development, Kantian Review, European Journal of Political Theory, Res Publica, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, The Journal of Politics.

Co-Organizer of Studies in the History of Economic Justice: Kant, Fichte, and Marx panel at the PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2020

Co-Organizer of Just Wages panel at the PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2020.

Organizer of Justice as Fairness and the Choice of Economic System panel at the PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2019.

Organizer of Socialism panel at the PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2018.

Organizer of A Theory of Truces, conference held at Suffolk University, April 2016.

Organizer of Special Workshop: “The Idea of Basic Liberties”, IVR 2015 Conference, Washington DC, July 2015. 

Organizer of conference: Self-Knowledge, Self-Deception, and Self-Conceit, Suffolk University, November 2013.

Co-organizer with Fred Rauscher, Kate Moran, and Mike Nance of the conference, Kant on Nature and Freedom, Brown University, October 2013, http://www.natureandfreedom.org/

Reviewer for the Third Biennial Meeting of the North American Kant Society, 2016.

Co-organizer with Patrick Frierson, Dasha Polzik, and Rafeeq Hasan of Author Meets Critic Session, on Joshua Cohen A Free Community of Equals (OUP, 2010) and Frederick Neuhouser Rousseau’s Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition (OUP, 2008) at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Diego, April 2011.

Co-organizer of the conference Kant’s Vision of Peace, Copenhagen, 2006.

Co-creator, fundraiser, and organizer of conferences for the Network on Ethics and Justice in the Community of Nations, 2004-2006.