April 14, 2016
Panarchist Anthology Published
A new anthology titled Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States, edited by Aviezer Tucker and Gian Piero de Bellis, has been released by Routledge. The concept of panarchy comes from…
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April 07, 2016
Huemer’s Approaching Infinity
I’m about halfway done reading Michael Huemer’s new book Approaching Infinity. It’s a fascinating foray into the philosophy of math, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. Huemer begins by presenting a large number…
March 17, 2016
Inside Higher Ed on Our Adjunct Paper
Inside Higher Ed has a nice write up of my paper with Phil Magness on the cost of providing justice for adjuncts. They also solicited some responses from activists, which, alas,…
February 17, 2016
Dr. Seuss vs Daniel Layman
At Business Ethics Journal Review, Peter Jaworski and I respond to Daniel Layman’s attempt to critique our paper “Markets without Symbolic Limits”. Layman argues that to sell certain things “embodies” a morally…
February 17, 2016
What Are Rights and Why Are They Important?
From the new Libertarianism.org guide Political Philosophy: An Introduction, here’s a sample lecture on what rights are and why they are important. In the accompanying book, which you can download in…
January 19, 2016
Pluralist Contractarianism
Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom taught me a great deal of history and history of political theory. It also contains the compelling, historically and philosophically valid, distinction between two types of…