He is Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West Virginia University's Chambers College of Business and Economics.
[5] Schmidtz taught first-year property as a visiting professor at Florida State University College of Law in 2007.
In the 2014–15 academic year, he was a national Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and John Stuart Mill Professor at Hamburg University.
He is author of Elements of Justice,[1] Rational Choice and Moral Agency,[6] co-author of Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (a "For & Against" book with Robert Goodin)[7] and editor of a volume on Robert Nozick in the Cambridge University Press "Contemporary Philosophy in Focus" series.
[9] His first book, The Limits of Government: An Essay on the Public Goods Argument,[10] combined his interests in moral philosophy and economic analysis.
[12] He co-authored the introductory textbook Commercial Society: A Primer on Ethics and Economics with Cathleen Johnson and Robert Lusch[13] and the book Debating Education: Is There a Role for Markets?