August 19, 2015
On Singer’s Thought Experiment
Apropos Matt’s recent post: Peter Singer argues we have stringent duties to give to charity. He relies upon a thought experiment: One Drowning Child You come across a child drowning…
Posts filed under Peter Singer
August 17, 2015
Would You Save the Drowning Child?
I’ve got a series of new videos coming out from Learn Liberty on the problem of poverty. The first one was released last week, and introduces the issue with a…
July 07, 2015
Is There a Conflict Between Altruism and Economic Growth?
Readers of this blog might be interested in a symposium that Boston Review is running on Peter Singer’s idea of “Effective Altruism.” For those who aren’t familiar with that term, the basic…
May 28, 2015
Living High While People Die
As Bernie Sanders laments, there are dozens of varieties of underarm deodorant, even though lots of people starve. We must not have our priorities straight. I don’t have time for…
March 18, 2015
The Marginal Cases Argument for Open Immigration
Christopher Freiman has a paper coming out called “The Marginal Cases Argument for Open Immigration.” I’ll briefly summarize it here. I probably have lots of typos. Oh well. Freiman wants to…
February 16, 2012
What We Can Learn from Drowning Children
So, it turns out that Bryan Caplan isn’t a bleeding heart libertarian either. Unlike Will, though, Bryan’s problem isn’t with the libertarianism of BHL, but with its bleeding heart. Bryan, you…