American philosopher Robert Nozick may not be a household name, but his intellectual contributions to the liberty movement cannot be overstated. Nozick, who passed away in 2002, was born on this date ...
During many years of teaching philosophy at Harvard University, Robert Nozick (1938-2002) wrote a series of rich and varied works, including Philosophical Explanations (1981), The Examined Life (1989) ...
My previous post “Income Inequality and Bullsh*t” concluded by mentioning issues of fairness and envy that accompany the discussion of income inequality. Here I take up those issues. In his book A ...
Benevolence is the humanist virtue par excellence. Influential veil-of-ignorance theories of justice, issuing from the main streams of the humanist ethics of the Enlightenment, exclude benevolence ...
Law and Philosophy, Vol. 35, No. 3, MICHAEL BLAKE'S "JUSTICE AND FOREIGN POLICY" (June 2016), pp. 271-290 (20 pages) In his rich and stimulating book, Blake argues (among other things) that ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
My previous post “Income Inequality and Bullsh*t” concluded by mentioning issues of fairness and envy that accompany the discussion of income inequality. Here I take up those issues. In his book A ...