Jason wrote a nice post the other day on Peter Singer’s famous drowning child thought experiment. In short, Jason argues that showing that we’d be obligated to save one drowning…
With my book Hayek’s Modern Family just a few months from publication, I thought I’d provide a little preview of one strand of my argument there. Whatever the scientific merits of…
That’s the title of a recent paper of mine that is now forthcoming in Social Philosophy and Policy, as part of a conference and symposium coordinated by Mark LeBar. I have…
Michael Huemer writes that if seven friends at the bar decide by a vote of 6 to 1 that you should pay for everyone’s drinks, you are not obligated to…
Outside libertarian circles, many believe that communities may democratically choose virtually any political and economic system they wish. The imminent Scotland vote (see James Taylor’s recent post) suggests some general…
Yesterday’s New York Times carried an Opinion by the Editorial Board which suggested ways in which the current and chronic shortage of kidneys available for transplantation could be alleviated without…