April 07, 2015
Bigotry
Ross Douthat recently pointed out that people are using the term “bigotry” much more broadly in the case of people objecting to same-sex marriage. My experience is similar. I’ve had more…
April 04, 2015
Indiana
(UPDATE: At the outset, two views a bit different, though not completely different, from mine. View 1 and View 2) I have written some things about the “discrimination” problem in…
April 04, 2015
Should You Go To Grad School?
The short answer, in terms of modal response, is just simple: NO. Here is a good thoughtful answer. Meaning that if you are a good thoughtful person you should probably just…
April 02, 2015
Talk at Penn on Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom
I’ll be giving a talk on Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom Thursday, April 16th at the University of Pennsylvania. 4:30 PM, Room 337, Cohen Hall.
March 31, 2015
On Systematic Justifications of Private Property in Rawls, Locke, and Nozick
When students first learn about Rawls’s difference principle, they often assume Rawls intends the principle to be applied directly to every transaction. I can’t accept a pay raise unless this…
March 30, 2015
Call for Abstracts on Police and Anarchism
Call for Abstracts for the Molinari Society’s next Eastern Symposium, to be held in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting, January 6-9, 2016, in Washington DC. (Note…