November 13, 2011
A Premise Questioned
I haven’t been posting lately because I’ve been working on topics not directly related to the theme of the blog. I am reading G.A. Cohen’s Rescuing Justice and Equality. It…
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October 31, 2011
States Must Do Bad
Something a little different from my regular posts. Long ago, Plato asked if we would do better with good rules or good rulers. If we could attain utopia, wherein people…
October 17, 2011
Answering the Society Fundamentalist
This is an overly-long post that gets to a simple answer to a question that sometimes comes up in the sorts of discussions we have on this blog. If you…
October 14, 2011
Friday Links
Adam Smith – Bleeding Heart Libertarian? Economic Freedom in the United States Today I did another interview with Kosmos Online, this one discussing my current research. I talk about the…
October 10, 2011
Gaus at Cato Unbound
Of likely interest to many BHL readers: Cato Unbound is hosting a symposium this month with a lead essay by Gerald Gaus and comments by Richard Arneson, Eric Mack, and…
October 07, 2011
On the Wall Street Protests
These protests raise an interesting philosophical puzzle, identified by my friend and co-author Guido Pincione of the University of Arizona. If someone asks me if I support the protesters (assuming…