June 30, 2015
Philosophers on the Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling
Many of us are quite interested in marital policy for gays and lesbians, so I thought you might find it interesting to look at some short philosopher responses on the…
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March 06, 2015
Community and Diversity in Cohen’s Socialist Utopia
Some excerpts/summary from a paper of mine, forthcoming in a symposium on Cohen’s Why Not Socialism? Lots of typos, I’m sure. In Why Not Socialism?, Cohen articulates a number of moral principles…
February 04, 2014
On Bertram’s Bad Reasons for Leveling Down
Chris Bertram has just issued a rather worrisome post entitled, “Squeezing the Rich is Good: Even When It Raises No Money.” In other words, destroying huge amounts of wealth, intentionally,…
April 29, 2013
Arneson on Egalitarianism at the SEP
My friend and colleague-of-sorts (at USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy) Richard Arneson has revised the entry on “Egalitarianism” at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I think many readers of…
November 26, 2012
New Brettschneider Book
Corey Brettschneider, a political philosopher at Brown, has just published an interesting and thoughtful new book, When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote…