Welcome!  

I am a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.  I work on political philosophy, ethics, legal philosophy, and epistemology.  I also have research and teaching interests in Native American and Indigenous Philosophy, Mesoamerican Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, and African Philosophy, among other areas.  

I am the Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy Compass, the leading journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles that cover research and current thinking from across the discipline of philosophy.  I am also an Associate Editor for Ethics.  

I am a co-organizer of NEWLAMP, a learning and pedagogy-focused summer institute designed to enable philosophy teachers to include traditionally underrepresented areas of philosophy in their undergraduate courses.

I received my PhD from the NYU Philosophy Department in 2012, and I have a JD from NYU School of Law, where I was a Furman Scholar and then a Furman Fellow. 

My free, online, open-to-all Coursera course, Revolutionary Ideas: An Introduction to Legal and Political Philosophy, is in On-Demand format.  That means that it can be taken for free, by anyone, at any time.  

Part One of the course is available here.  

Part Two of the course is available here.  

This is the complete syllabus for the class.   

Here's an interview I did for The Philosophers' Magazine on teaching African, Latinx and Latin American, and Native American and Indigenous Philosophy.  

Here's a series of pieces on alternatives to democracy in the Newark Star-Ledger that I selected and helped edit, along with my own contribution, arguing for the use of lotteries, rather than elections, to select political officials.  

Here's an article in the Boston Globe about some of my work on the use of lotteries, rather than elections, to select political officials.

Here's a popular piece that I wrote for the long-form magazine Aeon in which I make the case for lottocracy.

Here's some advice on applying to graduate school.  

Please feel free to contact me (alex.guerrero 'at' rutgers 'dot' edu) with any questions.