December 04, 2012
New Articles on Libertarian Thought
Several articles have appeared in academic journals in the last month discussing various aspects of libertarian thought. I thought they might be of interest to BHL readers. Unfortunately, all of…
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November 24, 2012
Libertarianism, Self-Defense, and Innocent Shields
Suppose A is unjustly attacking V, and using I as an “innocent shield.” In other words, A has positioned himself (or I) in such a way as to make it…
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…
November 20, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy
IN a recent Boston Review article, philosophers Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson develop and defend Rawls’s ideal economic regime, property-owning democracy. Given that these two authors have recently put out…
November 19, 2012
“Aiming at justice” and justice
Well, its been a while. Having caught up with a few projects (at least for the moment), I thought I’d wet my feet once again in the blogosphere with this,…
November 02, 2012
Lived Experience and Moral Knowledge
We’ve talked a great deal about John Tomasi’s book, Free Market Fairness, here on this blog. But on re-reading one of the chapters this afternoon, I noticed a nice point…