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…
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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…
October 04, 2011
Tuesday Links
An podcast I did with Kosmos Online about Bleeding Heart Libertarianism is online here. I was able to get into a bit more depth about some key philosophic issues here than in…
October 03, 2011
The Ethics of Voting on New Books in Philosophy
Robert Talisse, a political philosopher at Vanderbilt, recently launched New Books in Philosophy, which interviews philosophers about their recently published books. I was interviewed in the summer about The Ethics…
October 01, 2011
Objections to the Simple Libertarian Argument for Environmental Regulation
As I mentioned in a previous post, there’s a simple argument, consistent with hard-core deontological, self-ownership libertarian principles, that gets you to the conclusion it’s at least permissible for the…
September 21, 2011
Kill the Death Penalty
Even if we grant for the sake of argument that some people deserve to die, it does not follow that the state may be authorized to kill them. For a…