Here are my three collected posts in the Cato Unbound series: Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism? How Kant’s political views are a mix of liberal and anti-liberal claims, but, more importantly, how his fundamental distinction between noumenal and phenomenal selves means that philosophically he has no defense of practical liberalism. […]
Immanual Kant versus Liberalism — my three Cato articles collected Read More »
Jonathan Adler’s lengthy list of problems in Nancy MacLean’s book, which seems to be about a social construct labelled “James Buchanan.” What explains how such a book could be written by a professor and published by an academic press? (1) Trevor Burrus suggests that it could be the Lazy Jury Fallacy at work. (2) I
Nancy MacLean’s attack — lazy jury fallacy or pomo strategy? Read More »
The core idea of the Design Argument is that to explain the cause-and-effect order of the natural world, we must appeal to a divine Designer: the complexity of reality cannot be the product of random chance, so there must be a powerful intelligence behind it all that brought order into existence and keeps the operation
The Design Argument — six critical questions Read More »
Grégoire Canlorbe is a French intellectual entrepreneur. He currently resides in Paris. He interviewed me for The Foundation for Economic Education. Excerpt below: Grégoire Canlorbe: A second criticism, initially formulated by Michel Foucault in his 1979 lectures at the College de France, is that modern capitalist society and “disciplinary techniques” are completely bound with each other.
Does modern capitalism beget bureaucracy? Read More »
The thesis of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: More information also at my: Explaining Postmodernism page. Credit: Matheus Pacini made this graphic meme. Here’s his group’s Facebook page.
Why Postmodernism? — politics plus epistemology Read More »
My video meditation on Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus” below or at YouTube:
Camus, Sisyphus, and the Meaning of Life Read More »
Logical Fallacies Compiled by Brian McGroarty. Ad Hominem: This is the best logical fallacy, and if you disagree with me, well, you suck. Appeal to False Authority: Your logical fallacies aren’t logical fallacies at all because Einstein said so. Einstein also said that this one is better. Appeal to Emotion: See, my mom, she had
McGroarty’s Logical Fallacies — fun list Read More »
An audiobook version of my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” is below or at YouTube: Text version published in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 10:2, Spring 2009, 249-291. Also here as PDF. Also relevant: My chart (with sources) comparing Nietzsche’s and Rand’s positions on 96 philosophical issues.
Is Rand’s Ethics Nietzschean? Read More »