October 07, 2011
What is the Point of BHL?
After Matt’s recent on-line interviews where he discussed BHL (for example, here–well worth listening to, as is another on Kosmos), I saw numerous comments circulating about the view. Some of…
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 26, 2011
A Simple Libertarian Argument for Environmental Regulation
Libertarians are often very hostile to environmental regulation. Why? Reflecting on the argument below should help us understand their grounds and whether the grounds are any good. 1. Pollution and…
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…