August 09, 2013
Reasons for Open Borders
I suppose the readers of this website are more likely than most to favor open borders. But the majority of people are pretty strongly opposed to immigration. They think the…
Posts filed under academic philosophy
May 31, 2013
More on Bleeding Hearts and Social Justice
As Andrew mentioned, both of us were on a panel about Bleeding Heart Libertarianism this week. Since he has posted his comments, and the blog has recently been buzzing with…
May 28, 2013
Effective Altruism for BHL’s
In Peter Singer’s new TED talk, he tries to answer the question of how to give most effectively. The talk starts with a short summary of his famous argument for…
April 24, 2013
Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part II)
In my first post, I discussed the argument that there are no natural rights because such rights are too indeterminate. In this post I wish to take up another kind…
April 13, 2013
Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part I)
For my first few posts, I want to write some things about rights. I plan to write on human rights and on property rights in the future. But first I…
March 18, 2013
Why Limit PAD to the Terminally Ill?
While catching up on the recent Cato Unbound conversations, I just read through Howard Ball’s lead essay and Philip Nitschke’s response about physician assisted death. Ball argues that a terminally…