On my trip home from Brazil, I had a lengthy layover in Panama, made enjoyable by two fun and smart young people who took me to the canal (awesome) and to lunch at a Panamanian fusion restaurant. Tasty — I’d never had fried plantain before. I was struck by Panama City’s skyline — it’s experiencing […]
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Following up on my Fórum da Libertade experience, here is a feature in Zero Hora newspaper, with mini-interviews and comments from me, Tom Palmer, Eduardo Marty, and several others. While in Brazil I also interviewed two entrepreneurs for upcoming issues of Kaizen and participated in a conference on Shirley Robin Letwin’s On the History of
On April 17, Professor Tara Smith will be speaking at Rockford College on themes related to her Money Can Buy Happiness. Professor Smith received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books in moral and political philosophy,
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The Bases Foundation has announced its Fourth International Conference, to be held in August in Rosario, Argentina, on the theme of “The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century”. The conference has an impressive lineup of speakers, including Lawrence White of George Mason University, Christopher Lingle of Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Karol Boudreaux of the
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I’m happy to announce that my Explaining Postmodernism is being translated into Persian by an Iranian sociologist and will soon by published by a firm in Tehran. More information forthcoming.
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Readers of this site know that in addition to my philosophy professorship I am the Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. We have launched a fundraising campaign for our 2012 activities. We are proud of what we have accomplished in our first four academic years — new courses on entrepreneurship, business ethics,
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Two student groups at Rockford College are producing a discussing of a perennially important topic: Morality without God? * Is life purposeless or meaningless without belief in a particular God or religion? * Without God, does that mean “anything goes”? * Does belief in a particular God or religion incline one to morality? Does it
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I’ll be making a trip to Kentucky, the beautiful neighboring state across the Ohio River, to give a talk on “Ethical Entrepreneurship – How to Make Tough Decisions in a Tough World.” My talk is sponsored by Entre Paducah as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010. Time: Monday, November 18, 7 a.m. Place: Carson Center
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