November 17, 2019
Defending Self-Ownership
Here’s the text of the talk I gave on self-ownership at the PPE conference last March. It’s not a defense of self-ownership in the sense of a positive argument for…
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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…
September 27, 2013
Self-Ownership and the Right to Say “No”
Speaking of Dan Russell, and speaking of self-ownership, if you don’t follow Dan’s work, you should. Here’s his webpage at the University of Arizona. Here’s his most recent book on…
September 27, 2013
Who Said It?
I was lucky enough to spend yesterday in Tucson, talking with George Smith, Roderick Long, Kevin Vallier, Dan Russell, David Schmidtz, Charles Johnson and others about the history of libertarianism…
April 30, 2013
Eudaimonism and Non-Aggression
There are two ways one can go wrong with regard to the non-aggression principle (NAP). One way to go wrong is to treat the NAP as a rigid, out-of-context principle…
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…