September 30, 2016
What is the Root of Wrongdoing?
I’ve got a piece up at Aeon on moral philosophy. I argue that conventional wisdom overstates the role of self-interest in motivating wrongdoing and understates the role of what Kant…
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September 10, 2016
How Politics Corrupts Scholarship
I teach at a law school. It is quite common for legal scholars to switch back and forth between academia and government. In my discipline, international law, this has happened…
September 10, 2016
CFP: The Future of Work, Automation, and a Basic Income
Members and readers of the blog should find this of interest. We have our very own Matt Zwolinski speaking! Please send this to anyone you think might want to apply….
September 07, 2016
The Ethicists’ Letter on Bone Marrow Compensation… and why the WHO kills people.
Peter Jaworski has done an absolutely wonderful job in drafting an open letter showing just why it is NOT unethical to pay bone marrow donors. I’ve signed this, and so…
August 18, 2016
Exploitation at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has just published a very heavily revised version of my[1] entry on “Exploitation.” In addition to covering relatively recent developments in the literature, the essay now contains an extended…
August 17, 2016
CHOICE Review of Markets Without Limits.
CHOICE–the magazine that libraries use to help them decide which new books they should purchase–has just published my short “review” of Markets Without Limits. It’s available here…. and has a…