December 17, 2014
Fortune Receipt Taxes
I was happy to see John’s post Monday. I wrote the following a few days earlier, but late at night and when I was in the midst of grading so…
December 16, 2014
Tradition! Tradition!
I think about traditions a lot this time of year. Last year, I told you my three favorite stories about tradition. So this morning, when the bizarrely compelling story of…
December 15, 2014
Does Market Democracy Sanction Class Domination?
Free Market Fairness (FMF) presents a fusionist theory of liberal justice, one affirming both private economic liberty and social justice. I call this market democracy. In a symposium on FMF…
December 12, 2014
Critical Review Symposium on Free Market Fairness
Things have been a little slow here at BHL lately. I imagine things will pick up now that the academic term is drawing to a close. But if you’ve been…
December 01, 2014
On Killing Government Agents in Self-Defense: Authority and Legitimacy
In my paper “When May We Kill Government Agents? In Defense of Moral Parity,” I argue that the conditions under which we may justifiably kill democratic government agents, acting ex…
November 30, 2014
Self, Other, and Morality
A forthcoming study: Harm to others outweighs harm to self in moral decision making Molly Crockett et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forthcoming Abstract: Concern for the…