My review of Kevin Gibson’s Ethics and Business: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2007) was published in the journal Teaching Philosophy (Spring 2010). Here’s a 13-minute audio version of the review in MP3 or at YouTube. Topics covered in the review: * Criteria for evaluating textbooks in business ethics. * The Concession versus Contractual theories […]
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At the CEE site, my full interview with entrepreneurial agriculturalist Enrique Duhau. Be sure to read about how his first business was wiped out by a tornado, how he competed successfully against smugglers, and how he built his family’s agriculture business into one of Argentina’s largest. From the introduction: Enrique Duhau is President of Administración
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The view from my office window this week. Reminds me of a haiku: Not for nothing Did the red leaf fall.
Autumn in Illinois Read More »
Robert Lawson (Southern Methodist University), along with James Gwartney (Florida State University) and Joshua Hall (West Virginia University), is editor of the celebrated Economic Freedom of the World Index. The Index is one of the major achievements in social science research this generation, made possible by much better data and awesome computing power. Professor Lawson
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I have a review forthcoming in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews of the impressive new volume by Allan Gotthelf and James G. Lennox. Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge: Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology was published in 2013 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Gotthelf and Lennox both edited the volume and provided contributions of their own.
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Sports Studies Symposium 2014 — Call for Abstracts
Sports Studies Symposium 2014 — Call for Abstracts Read More »
My friend Donald Parrish is the most traveled person in the world. The Most Traveled People website, lists “873 countries, territories, autonomous regions, enclaves, geographically separated island groups, and major states and provinces.” Members can keep track of their trips and share stories and pictures. Don retired early and dedicated himself to travel. As of
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I’ve updated the Intellectual History page with links to my recent posts on Bacon, Galileo, Kierkegaard, Russell, and Rand.
Intellectual History page updated: Galileo, Russell, Rand Read More »