Philosophy

Sexo con Robots? La Ética [Spanish translation]

[This is a Spanish translation of my “Sex with Robots? The Ethics”, first published in English at EveryJoe.] Se está viniendo una nueva generación de robots sexuales, y las bromas ya han comenzado.  “Yo no necesito uno…” — dice una mujer casada — “mi marido ya es suficientemente robótico en la cama.” Ja ja.  “Seguro…” […]

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Three lectures upcoming in Minnesota (Gustavus Adolphus College)

On October 31, I will be giving three talks in Minnesota at Gustavus Adolphus College: * The Ethics Debates over Minimum Wages * National Socialism: Was it really socialist? Was it really a philosophy? * Entrepreneurship and the New Moral Leadership Thanks very much to Professor Marta Podemska-Mikluch of GAC’s economics department for inviting me.

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Alexei Marcoux on moral partiality in business [video interview transcript]

Interview with Professor Alexei Marcoux, conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Part I Hicks: My guest today is Dr. Alexei Marcoux, who spoke at Rockford University on moral partiality in business practice. Dr. Marcoux is a philosopher by training. He teaches in the business administration program

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Religion and the Verdict of History [Theist vs. Atheist series]

[This column is a part of the Theist vs. Atheist series debate between Stephen Hicks and John C. Wright. This is Hicks’s response to Wright’s column. Here are the links to other columns in the series.] To evaluate religion’s track record we need to specify our evaluative benchmarks and identify whether we are evaluating religion generically

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Long on Kant and liberal politics [Cato Unbound Series]

Professor Roderick T. Long has published his essay, “Kant: Liberal, Illiberal, or Both?”, in the Cato Unbound discussion series. Here is the abstract of his essay: Roderick Long offers a complex view of Immanuel Kant, who emerges as more often liberal in principle than in practice. Kant approved of taxation, a welfare state, and even

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Kant’s non-defense of classical liberalism — my article for Cato Unbound

In the Cato Unbound series, my article “Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism?” is now up. Here, courtesy of editor Jason Kuznicki, is an abstract: Stephen R. C. Hicks argues that if our case for liberty comes from a mysterious other realm, then perhaps we have no case at all. He describes how

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