The schedule for next month’s Alabama Philosophical Society in Pensacola (which looks to be our biggest yet) is now online. Abstracts will be added later. (I had planned to present a paper on the extent to which the Problem of Good, i.e. of reconciling the existence of goodness with the universe’s having been created by [...]
Three more blasts from the past (all a bit more recent than my blast from Oscarville): First, two papers I wrote for a science course in college: “The Temptation of Ludwig Boltzmann” (a short sf story exploring the implications of Boltzmannian probability theory – though Amazon thinks it’s something else) and “Evolution: Chance or Teleology?” [...]
Some C4SS-related items worth checking out: [Note that this does not mean that other C4SS-related items not listed here are not worth checking out!] Kevin Carson on The Cognitive Biases of Hierarchy. (Turns out that power makes you stupid.) Charles Johnson on Is the Problem Really Too Little Trust in Government? (Can you guess [...]
I recently had reason to link to my 2006 Mises philosophy seminar files, and saw that the relevant page on the Mises site looks somewhat confusing these days, so I made my own page of links.
My friend Aviezer Tucker, author of the (p)anarchist article “The Best States: Beyond the Territorial Fallacy,” has an amusing piece in the Prague Post this week titled “It’s a Small World.” I met Aviezer at the PCPE in Prague last March; Sophia, the daughter he mentions in the piece, essentially learned to walk on the [...]
I’m done with my two-week libertarathon – tiring but fun. Now just two weeks before fall classes begin! I notice that the Mises Institute has a lot of good pamphlets out, suitable for tabling – including Fréderic Bastiat’s The Law, Gustave de Molinari’s Production of Security, Étienne de la Boétie’s Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, Carl [...]
As William Gillis points out, two important histories of individualist anarchism in the u.s. are now online: Eunice Schuster’s (confusingly titled) Native American Anarchism (1932) and Rudolf Rocker’s Pioneers of American Freedom (1949). These join James Martin’s (sexistly titled) Men Against the State (1953) and William Reichert’s Partisans of Freedom (1976), already online, making a [...]
C. S. Lewis’s article “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment” is simultaneously an excellent argument against the rehabilitative or therapeutic approach to punishment, and a lousy argument in favour of the retributive approach to punishment. Lewis makes a compelling and eloquent proto-Szaszian case for the thesis that punishment not based on responsibility is wrong; but, never [...]
I was pleased to see that the article on libertarian feminism that Charles and I wrote a few years back is discussed in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on liberal feminism. (The entry also cites two pieces by my friend Elizabeth Brake.) (Unfortunately, the entry gets Charles’s name wrong and cites an obsolete version [...]
Kevin Carson’s latest C4SS study, The Thermidor of the Progressives: Managerialist Liberalism’s Hostility to Decentralized Organization, is now online. As the subtitle suggests, the study documents the tendency of so-called “progressives” to side with power and privilege against genuine left radicalism. In other C4SS news (not so new at this point), check out the first [...]
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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