Will Wilkinson takes anarchist Crispin Sartwell over the proposition that an illegitimate state is therefore a morally indefensible state: The point is: Showing that the state is not legitimate does not deliver anarchy because "If the state is not legitimate,...
Posted on May 30, 2008 2:33 PM • 1 Comments •
Steven Wiley, writing in the Scientist, discusses the contradiction of the recent fad for "hypothesis-free" research: Following a recent computational biology meeting, a group of us got together for dinner, during which the subject of our individual research projects came...
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Posted on May 19, 2008 11:27 AM • 9 Comments •
Recently, there were a set of posts arguing for different models of the effects of the minimum wage on employment. Megan McArdle argues that perfect competition models of the effects of minimum wage on the labor market implies that increases...
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Posted on May 12, 2008 1:43 PM • 4 Comments •
This Kant attack ad is awesome:...
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Posted on December 11, 2007 9:57 AM • 2 Comments •
Who knew anybody, much less the Economist had an opinion on whether or not Belgium should exist? One question: if Belgium goes through a 'velvet' divorce, who gets custody of the chocolate?...
Posted on September 9, 2007 2:03 PM • 3 Comments •
In response to my earlier post on the limits of utilitarianism Ezra Klein, blogger and journalist at The American Prospect, had this to say: Reading this perfectly serious attempt to lay out Ayn Rand's objections to utilitarianism, I'm reminded of...
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Posted on August 7, 2007 7:47 PM • 19 Comments •
Here is your philosophical conversation to ponder over for the day. (I am cleaning out links, and this is the sort of stuff you get when I am cleaning out links.) I recently read an interesting interchange on about Weber's...
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Posted on April 24, 2007 10:02 AM • 3 Comments •