November 10, 2018
Libertarianism: Eric Mack’s New Book
Many readers of this blog will know Eric Mack’s work. He is the leading libertarian political philosopher. And he has just put together a nice new book explaining libertarian political…
Posts filed under Robert Nozick
August 31, 2016
Nozick’s Method
A great deal of Anarchy, State, and Utopia is meant to respond to left-liberals. Left-liberals think that each person has an extensive set of negative civil liberties, i.e., rights against interference…
April 20, 2016
Trivial Rights Infringements: They’re Not Just A Problem For Libertarians
As discussed before on BHL, David Sobel offers a powerful objection to self-ownership. If we may not infringe on a person’s self-ownership rights, then a huge number of seemingly innocuous…
December 15, 2015
The Dreary Utopia of the Socialists
David Gordon reviews Why Not Capitalism here, in a cogent review in which he also advances novel criticisms of Cohen’s work. An excerpt: Finally, it is worth pointing out that Cohen…
March 31, 2015
On Systematic Justifications of Private Property in Rawls, Locke, and Nozick
When students first learn about Rawls’s difference principle, they often assume Rawls intends the principle to be applied directly to every transaction. I can’t accept a pay raise unless this…
March 11, 2015
CFP: Lockean Libertarianism
Billy Christmas (who was part of the same MANCEPT 2014 workshop as me (“The Current State of Libertarian Political Philosophy”) in September, and who also participated in the Molinari Society’s…