October 31, 2012
Mummies, Rights, and the Moral Community
Happy Halloween! In the ::spirit:: of the season I thought I’d write up a little guide to the ethical treatment of some of the creatures you may encounter tonight, including…
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October 16, 2012
Is Philosophy Unreliable?
Here’s a link to one of my favorite papers, “Scepticism about Philosophy,” published in Ratio. Here’s the abstract: Suppose a person who is agnostic about most philosophical issues wishes to have…
October 10, 2012
Free Libertarian Philosophy!
Those outside of academic philosophy departments might not have heard of it, but Social Philosophy and Policy is one of my favorite journals. More than any other journal I know, they consistently…
October 05, 2012
The One-Boxer Argument for Voting
Jason Brennan’s excellent The Ethics of Voting dispatches a number of familiar arguments for a duty to vote and provides grounds for a duty to vote well or not vote…
October 02, 2012
Reflections on Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia was published almost forty years ago – the first and still most widely known book in academic philosophy to take libertarian thought seriously. How have…
September 29, 2012
Welfare: Who Cares?
Some BHL types seem to think that welfare matters for its own sake. Recently, Kevin suggested that rights are justified by an appeal to the welfare interests they protect. On…