June 17, 2014
Whose Left? Which Libertarianism?
Over at C4SS I’ve posted the abstract to a paper on Left-Libertarianism: Its Past, Its Present, Its Prospects that I’ll be presenting at the MANCEPT 2014 Workshop on the Current…
Posts filed under academic philosophy
April 14, 2014
Bleeding Heart Utilitarian Libertarianism
With my first post as an official member of BHL, I’ll take a big picture approach and briefly explain why I think utilitarianism should be attractive to bleeding heart libertarians….
October 23, 2013
Circumstances and the Ethics of Markets
I am so happy to see that Japa Pallikkathayil is blogging over at Political Philosop-her. I’ve always liked Japa’s work and I think her Philosopher’s Imprint essay about coercion is…
August 28, 2013
Why focus on Walmart and McDonald’s?
I really liked Megan McArdle’s column and Jason’s post about it this morning. They both nicely illustrate how a lot of the resistance to Walmart and McDonald’s in particular is…
August 23, 2013
On Legitimacy
I’ve been meaning to post on state legitimacy for a while now. Our symposium on Michael Huemer’s fine book seems like as good a reason to do this as any….
August 16, 2013
On the Method of Huemer’s The Problem of Political Authority
There’s a lot to like about Michael Huemer’s The Problem of Political Authority. It repeats certain standard objections to the legitimacy of states. These are worth repeating since the defenders…