Here’s the text of the talk I gave on self-ownership at the PPE conference last March. It’s not a defense of self-ownership in the sense of a positive argument for the thesis; instead, it’s a reply to the most common objections to self-ownership that I’ve encountered:
Getting Self-Ownership in View
[cross-posted at POT]
The aforementioned punishment panel has been held.
Here are some photos from the event.
Here’s the paper I presented.
And for a more detailed presentation of some of the arguments from my paper, see my 1999 responsibility article (which depends in turn on some of the machinery in my 1993 abortion article), as well as the powerpoints from my 2015 prisons talk.
This coming Wednesday (the 16th), the Auburn U. Philosophy Club will be hosting a public panel from 6:00-8:30 p.m. at Mama Mocha’s coffeeshop (414 S. Gay St. in Auburn), on the topic of “Punishment, Discipline, and Incarceration.”
I’m one of the speakers. My regular readers can probably anticipate what I will say.
You Will Live Under the Sea, this (quite beautiful) book assured me when I was a kid:
A companion volume added that I would also go to the moon, just like Bobby and Betty.
Well, I don’t think any of that’s quite going to work out. But here are three songs about the life submarinous:
236. The Beatles, “Yellow Submarine” (1966):
This song was presumably the inspiration for Hagbard Celine’s golden submarine in the Illuminatus books.
When I was in college, a parody song (not by me!) was in circulation, about students studying in the Cabot Science Library: Calc in A, and Chem in D / in the Cabot Library / We all live in the Cabot Library / Cabot Library, Cabot Library ….
237. The Beatles, “Octopus’s Garden” (1969):
I first heard this song as a kid as part of the soundtrack for an underwater nature film at San Diego’s Reuben H. Fleet Science Theatre:
238. Decemberists, “Mariner’s Revenge Song” (2005):
I’m ethically opposed to revenge, but aesthetically I often find it pleasing:
Plus an animated video:
And another:
And another:
And another:
And another:
And another:
And a partial other:
And a live-action cover version:
(The lead in this last oddly reminds me of Cary Elwes in The Princess Bride. The age gap between the two men looks a bit more than fifteen years, but ….)
(Clarificatory Edit: By “the two men” I don’t mean Cary Elwes and this guy; I mean this guy and his intracetaceous companion.)
[cross-posted at C4SS, BHL, and POT]
In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the Molinari Institute, we’re happy to announce:
a) The long-awaited second issue of the Molinari Review will be published later this month. More details soon!
b) In the meantime, the entire first issue is now available for free online on the journal’s archive page. You can download either individual articles or the whole thing. Contents include:
Today is the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Here are the initial reactions I had at the time.
More happily, today is also the 17th anniversary both of the Molinari Institute and of this blog. In fact my very first blog post dealt with all three.
Watch this space for an exciting announcement, later today, in celebration of the Institute’s anniversary.