Marcos Picchio

Assistant Professor
651 Mathematics and Science Center
Bioethics (especially Research Ethics), Philosophy of Economics, Social & Political Philosophy
Phone: (248) 370-3393
[email protected]

Marcos Picchio is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Oakland University. He completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health from 2023-2025. His current research focuses on ethical issues surrounding the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in public policy and development economics. He is also exploring topics such as the value of economic growth, the nature of the duty to rescue, the regulation of human subjects research by institutional review boards (IRBs), and the ethical significance of assortative mating based on sociological factors..

Publications

"Policy Experiments, Informed Consent, and Democratic Authorization," Political Philosophy 2(2): 349-378. 2025.

"What Role Should Equipoise Play in Experimental Development Economics?" Economics & Philosophy FirstView: 1-25. 2025.

"Rawls on Just Savings and Economic Growth," Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 27(2): 341-370. 2024.

"What Is the Standard of Care in Experimental Development Economics?" Politics, Philosophy & Economics 23(2): 205-226. 2024.

Review of "Being Good in a World of Need, Larry S. Temkin. Oxford University Press, 2022, 432 pages," Economics & Philosophy 39(3): 516-521. 2023.

"When the ‘Realism of Assumptions’ Mattered: Milton Friedman’s Critique of the Phillips Curve," Studies in History & Philosophy of Science 94(C): 8-16. 2022.