Professor Kline visited Rockford College on Tuesday to give a talk on four major thinkers — Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith — who in large part established the intellectual framework for our modern business world. Kline is a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Here is my seven-minute follow-up interview with Kline […]
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Prompted by Eduardo Marty’s link to this discussion of postmodernism and libertarianism, here are updated links to my 1999 cyberseminar on The Continental Origins of Postmodernism, conducted while I was on sabbatical and Scholar-in-Residence at the Atlas Society. Abstract for the course: For this 1999 online seminar “The Continental Origins of Postmodernism,” TAS Director of
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The Philosophy and Film Series presents Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors, starring Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, and Anjelica Houston. My colleagues Shawn Klein and Matt Flamm will host a screening of the film and a discussion of its philosophical themes. Date and Time: November 8, screening at 6 p.m. and discussion
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I contributed the “Entrepreneurship and Ethics” chapter to editor Christoph Luetge’s Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (Springer Science+Business Media, 2013). Abstract: Much of the current business ethics literature takes corporations and social responsibility as its key operative concepts. Meanwhile, much of the business and economics literature is moving to seeing entrepreneurship as
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Today I’ll be giving a talk for the Northern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence on the topic of “Non-Profits & Conflicts and Harmonies of Interest.” The talk is at 4 p.m. in Grace Roper Lounge.
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Some initial evidence for your consideration: paintings from Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, and de Kooning. At a TRAC conference in Ventura, I heard an intriguing talk by Kay Kane, professor of drawing at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. Kane’s talk was based partly on (and partly diverged from) Wendy Steiner’s Venus in Exile (University
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The Atlas Society has a new CEO this year, Aaron Day. This press release announces Day’s appointment and background. The release also lists the names of those of us on the newly-constituted Board of Advisors: Ed Crane President, Cato Institute Steve Davis Director of Advanced Projects, SpaceX R. Paul Drake Professor of Physics, University of
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The Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is presenting a day-long conference on the moral and legal status of gun ownership today. GUNS IN AMERICA: Conflicting Points of View Gun ownership by private citizens is one of the most hotly debated issues in America today. What
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