July 28, 2014
How to Be a Bleeding Heart Libertarian About Race
Sometimes you write a book to tell people what you think. But sometimes you write a book to find out what you think. Several years ago, a chance encounter with…
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July 21, 2014
Historical recognition of cognitive biases ?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the ways in which cognitive biases (such as confirmation bias, framing effects, and the bandwagon effect) lead to errors in reasoning, and…
July 16, 2014
Rand on Kant: Let’s Use This as a Teaching Moment
In “Faith and Force,” Rand is not so nice to Kant: What Kant propounded was full, total, abject selflessness: he held that an action is moral only if you perform…
July 16, 2014
Craig Biddle’s Chart on Essential Moral Theories; Objectivist Strawmen
Do Objectivists actually believe all non-Objectivist philosophers are stupid and evil? This showed up on my Facebook feed just now. From The Objective Standard blog, an Objectivist website, here’s a list…
July 09, 2014
Can We Pay You $25 to Think of a Better Title for Our Paper?
Peter Jaworski and I recently had a paper accepted at Ethics on the question of commodification. (This paper is part of our larger project, Markets without Limits.) In the paper, we attack what…
July 07, 2014
The Drowning Toddler Example, 1886 edition
Turns out Pëtr Kropotkin beat Peter Singer to it by 86 years! A child is drowning, and four men who stand upon the bank see it struggling in the water, One…