June 22, 2014
Eric Mack on Robert Nozick at the SEP
Over at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Eric Mack has an excellent (and long overdue) new entry on Robert Nozick’s political philosophy. The essay covers Nozick’s theory of rights as…
Posts filed under Robert Nozick
January 02, 2014
Nozick on Free Enterprise
The United States broke away from mercantilist England and stood, though imperfectly, for liberty (including economic liberty) and for property rights. These two ideals are right not only for their economic and productive fruits…
December 05, 2013
Libertarianism and the Basic Income
Today, I did a short interview with Cato on the libertarian case for a Basic Income Guarantee, and published a much more substantive essay on that same topic at Cato’s…
November 13, 2013
Four Questions for Amia Srinivasan
Amia Srinivasan has four questions for free-market moralists, specifically those who accept something like a Nozickian account of individual rights. My own take is more Rothbardian than Nozickian, but that…
February 25, 2013
Blogging at Libertarianism.org, part 5: More on Liberty and Property
A few weeks back, I posted an essay at Libertarianism.org arguing that property rights necessarily restrict freedom. I noted in that post that I thought that property rights enhance freedom…
November 21, 2012
Sigh.
Brian Leiter, who often mocks the ignorant and semiliterate invocations of philosophical ideas that bounce around the media, links approvingly [see his response in comments] to the following claim that manages…