July 22, 2014
Why Philosophers Should Stay Out of Politics
Two years ago I participated in an NEH summer seminar for political philosophers. This was during the campaign for the 2012 Presidential election. One evening over drinks, I asked the…
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July 21, 2014
Historical recognition of cognitive biases ?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the ways in which cognitive biases (such as confirmation bias, framing effects, and the bandwagon effect) lead to errors in reasoning, and…
July 19, 2014
Weekend Links
Yet more evidence that exposure to markets ennobles, while socialism corrupts. The Other Cohen Fallacy isn’t just mistaken, but backwards. Is Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” hate speech, or just rather evil? Read…
July 08, 2014
and cf.
Kent Greenfield, “Hobby Lobby, “unconstitutional conditions,” and corporate law mistakes”” As a number of corporate law scholars and I argued in an amicus brief in the case, the very purpose…
July 04, 2014
Hang Tough, Israel
Many of my libertarian friends are relentless critics of Israel. I have taken the liberty of translating this marvelous response by the Argentine writer Marcos Aguinis. “In our postmodern times…
June 26, 2014
On Killing Government Leaders, with a Quotation from Jeff McMahan on the Ethics of Killing in War
Jeff McMahan truly excellent book Killing in War challenges the doctrine of the moral equality of combatants in war. According to this widely held view, soldiers in a war have equal permission…