August 25, 2015
The Essential Tension
Of potential interest to BHL readers: I have a review of Jacob Levy’s book Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom in the newest (October 2015) issue of Reason. (It’s also available online,…
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August 24, 2015
The Valorization of Envy
Robert Nozick, among others, wondered to what degree left-wing conceptions of social justice are mere attempts to valorize envy. (Extreme left-wing views in the US, in particular, tend to concentrated…
August 17, 2015
Would You Save the Drowning Child?
I’ve got a series of new videos coming out from Learn Liberty on the problem of poverty. The first one was released last week, and introduces the issue with a…
August 09, 2015
Current issue of Public Affairs Quarterly
The current issue of Public Affairs Quarterly (vol. 30, no. 3, July 2015) has a lot to offer readers of this blog. In addition to papers by myself (on why…
August 04, 2015
Against Most Philosophy
This is all in good fun. Don’t take it too seriously. We don’t need metaphysics. If we want to know what the fundamental nature of reality is like, we’ll ask…
June 30, 2015
Philosophers on the Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling
Many of us are quite interested in marital policy for gays and lesbians, so I thought you might find it interesting to look at some short philosopher responses on the…