One result of the study is to see how the human mind fits into the natural world. The thesis advisor was Dale Jamieson. Moriarty is now teaching philosophy at Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia. University of Colorado, Boulder . Philosophical reflections on property explain how our property institutions enable us to achieve valued goals, such as maximizing satisfied preferences.
Many philosophers assume that the normative conclusions of property theory are universally valid.
This is mistaken. Liberal philosophical justifications of private property are based on values and intuitions that are created within the context of private property-based societies. Property theory can never be used to justify the imposition of Western-style ownership conventions onto native societies. Broader perspectives on property result from investigating the phenomenology and genealogy of property. The advisor was James Nickel.