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Reason Papers was founded in 1974, and was edited by Tibor R. Machan from vols. 1 through 25.  Beginning with Volume 26 (Summer 2003), it is now edited by Aeon J. Skoble.  There have also been four  special-issue volumes with guest editors.  This archive currently gives Tables of Contents only, but in the future we hope to be able to provide on-line access.  In the meantime, if you would like to order any of these, please go back to the submissions and subscriptions page.

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  Volume 1, Fall 1974, contained the following:

Producer, Entrepreneur, and the Right to Property – Israel M. Kirzner

Dual-Aspect Theory of Agency – Roger E. Bissell

H. B. Acton’s Defense of the Market – Eric Mack

Austin and Wittgenstein on "Doubt" and "Knowledge" - Douglas B. Rasmussen

The State and Community in Aristotle’s Politics – Fred D. Miller, Jr.

On Doing Moral Philosophy – Kai Nielsen

Problems of Moral Philosophy – Carl R. Kordig

Book review: Israel Scheffler’s Reason and Teaching – John O. Nelson

Volume 2, Fall 1975 contained the following:

Dissolving a Muddle in Economics – Sidney Trivius

Boundaries on Social Contract – James M. Buchanan

Facts and Values: Is There am Naturalistic Fallacy? – Moshe Kroy

Government and the Governed – Douglas J. Den Uyl

Austrian Business Cycle Theory and its Implications – Charles E. Maling

A Problem Concerning Discrimination – Charles King

Group Therapy and Brainwashing – William Marina & Thomas Breslin

Book Review: Roger Trigg’s Reason and Commitment – Douglas Rasmussen

Volume 3, Fall 1976 contained the following:

The Intemporal Dimension of Distributive Justice – Kaj Areskoug

A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism – Michael Martin

Conrad’s Experiment in Non-absolute Gospel: Nostromo – Newton Baird

The Economic Epistemology of Ludwig von Mises – Lewis E. Hill & Gene C. Uselton

Discussion Notes:

Trivius on Economic Value – Michael Gorr

The Irrelevance of the Subjective – Sidney Trivius

Book Review: Peter Unger’s Ignorance – Frederick L. Will

Volume 4 – Winter 1978 contained the following:

On Hobbes' Argument for Government - David B. Suits

Rationality: Minimal and Maximal - Edward Walter

The Study of Nationalism: A Methodological Inquiry - Judith Englander

The Mechanistic Foundations of Economic Analysis - John C. Moorhouse

On the Rational Justification of the State- Jan J. Wilbanks

Discussion Notes:
Recurring Questions and Autonomy - Humphrey Palmer

A Note on Action and Causal Explanation -  Lester H. Hunt

The Relevance of the Subjective - Don C. Lavoie

A Muddle Confounded - Sidney Trivius

Book Review: John Cooper's Reason and Human Good in Aristotle, reviewed by Fred D. Miller, Jr.

Volume 5  - Winter 1979 contained the following:

Freedom and Virtue - Douglas J. Den Uyl

Rothbard's Intellectual Ancestry - Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.

Formalism and Internal Evidence - Mary Sirridge

Problems with the Austrian Business Cycle Theory - Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Hobbes's Theory of Sovereignty in Leviathan - James R. Hurtgen

Von Mises and Time-Preference - Ross Levatter

Review Essay: Democracy and Philosophy - James Hurtgen

Book Review: Stephen R. L. Clark's The Moral Status of Animals, reviewed by Michael Martin

Volume 6, Spring 1980 contained the following:

The Right to Death – Antony G. N. Flew

Entitlements and the Theft of Taxation – Richard B. McKenzie

On Modeling the Original Position – Eric von Magnus

Hayek’s Conception of Freedom, Coercion, and the Rule of Law – Ellen Frankel Paul

Liberty, and Possibly Wealth – E. C. Pasour, Jr.

Discussion Notes:

The Philosophic Content of the Apology – John O. Nelson

Aristotle’s Polis – M. T. Owens, Jr.

Book Reviews:

Martin Hollis’ Models of Man – Wallace I. Matson

Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method and Science in a Free Society – Robert Hollinger

Reudiger Hermann Grimm’s Nietzsche’s Theory of Knowledge – Lester H. Hunt

Volume 7 - Spring 1981 contained the following:

Free Enterprise and Coercion - Jan Wilbanks

Selective Perception - Thomas Russman

Political Typology: A Suggested Clarification - Robert Pielke

Ideology, Economics, and Knowledge - James Rolph Edwards

Antifederalism and Libertarianism - Michael Allen

Discussion Note:
A Taoist Argument for Liberty - Edward A. Hacker

Book Reviews:
Iredell Jenkins' Social Order and the Limits of Law - David Norton

Renford Bambrough's Moral Skepticism and Moral Knowledge - Douglas J. Den Uyl

Richmond Campbell's Self-Love and Self-Respect - Edward Regis, Jr.

Karl Popper and John Eccles' The Self and Its Brain - John N. Gray

No. 8 Summer 1982

Articles

Hobbes’s "Just Man"………………………….………………………….…….Joel Kidder

Four Kinds of Equality……………………………..………………….……...Antony Flew

U.S. Immigration: A Search for Principles and Predictions…………...…..Edwin G. West

Science and Pseudoscience: Criteria and Demarcation…………...………..Charles J. List

Review Essays

Philosophy: Beliefs, Attitudes and Justification…………………………..Gilbert Harman

The Nature of Philosophy: A Reply to Harman ……………………..……..…John Kekes

The Liberal State versus Individual Rights………....John H. Ahrens & Fred D. Miller, Jr.

Book Reviews

J.R. Lucas’s On Justice……………………………………………….…Laurence Thomas

Bernard Siegan’s Economic Liberties and the Constitution……………....William D. Burt

Antony Flew’s The Politics of Procrustes………………………..…………Lance K. Stell

 

No. 9 Winter 1983

Articles

The Libertarian Philosophy of John Stuart Mill………………………..Nicholas Capaldi

Love, Politics, and Autonomy……………………………………..Neera Kapur Badhwar

Rationality and Freedom in Aristotle and Hayek……………………… Fred D. Miller, Jr.

A Physical Definition of Rights………………..……….Michael D. Rogers & Ann Weiss

Discussion Notes

Distributing Ackerman’s Manna………………………………………….Steven Sverdlik

Self-Love and Benevolence……………………………………………Douglas J. Den Uyl

What are Natural Rights? A New Account……………………………Christopher Morris

Review Essays & Reviews

Robert Nozick’s Philosophical Explanations…………………………...Loren Lomasky

Tom Regan’s All that Dwell Therein………………………….…………James L. Hudson

Diana Hume George’s Blake and Freud…………………………………….Pamela Regis

Roger Trigg’s Reality at Risk…………………………………..……..Douglas Rasmussen

Alexander Rosenberg’s Sociobiology and the Preemption of the Social Science…………………………………………………………………….Thomas Lawson

Peter Singer’s The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology…………..Peter Danielson

 

No. 10 Spring 1985

Articles

Is Economics Independent of Ethics?…………………………………...……….Jack High

How the Jacksonian Favored Industrialization………………………....Paul McGouldrick

Economic Warfare in Defense of Liberty……………………………..Juliana Geran Pilon

Choice and Rationality……………………………………………………….Antony Flew

On Improving Mankind by Political Means………………………………..Lester H. Hunt

Constraining the Choice Set: Lessons from the Software Revolution………....David Levy

Discussion Notes

The Randian Argument Reconsidered: A Reply to Charles King………...Paul St. F. Blair

Is "Flourishing" a True Alternative Ethics……………………………….David L. Norton

Review Essays & Reviews

John Gray’s Mill on Liberty: A Defence and Hayek on Liberty………...Nicholas Capaldi

Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights…………………………………..John Hospers

 

No. 11 Spring 1986

Articles

Community Without Coercion……………………………….…….Hannes H. Gissurarson

Economics and the Limits of Value-Free Science……………………..…..Frank Van Dun

What’s Really Wrong with Milton Friedman’s Methodology of Economics……………………………………………………………...Steven Rappaport

Discussion Notes

Methods of Aborting………………………………………………….……..Clifton Perry

Troubles with Flourishing…………………………………………………Gilbert Harman

Review Essays & Reviews

Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons …………………………….………..Loren Lomasky

Michael Slote’s Goods and Virtues………………………………………….John Donnely

C. Ronald Kimberling’s Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism and Popular Arts……Pamela Regis

Don Herzog’s Without Foundations………………………………..……..Wallace Matson

John Lach’s Intermediate Man……………………………………..………James Chesher

 

 

No. 12 Spring 1987

Articles

Liberty, Virtue, and Self-Development: A Eudaimonistic Perspective….David L. Norton

Marxism: Religious Faith and Bad Faith………………………..……………Antony Flew

Marxism as Pseudo-Science……………………………...………..Ernest Van Den Haag

The Ethics of Hunting: Killing as Life-Sustaining……………………….Theodore Vitali

Discussion Notes

Exploitation…………………………………………………………………..John Ahrens

How the Jacksonians Opposed Industrialization: Lessons of Democratic Banking Policies………………………………………………………………….. Larry Schweikart

Review Essay

David Kelley’s The Evidence of the Senes: A Realist Theory of Perception………………………………………………………………..Randall R. Dipert

Book Reviews

Daniel C. Dennett’s Elbow Room: Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting…..Joseph Boyle

John Gray’s Liberalism……………………………………………..…….David L. Norton

Steven Cahn’s Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia………….……Delos B. McKown

 

Volume 13  - Spring 1988

The Free and Noble Spirit: A Festschrift for John Hospers

Appreciation - Douglas B. Rasmussen

Articles

Libertarianism, Welfare Rights, and the Welfare State - Jan Wilbanks

Brothers in Chains: Emerson and Fitzhugh on Economic and Political Liberty - Larry Schweikart

Hospers' "Ultimate Moral Equality" - John O. Nelson

On the Foundation of Natural Rights - Jeffrey Paul

Liberty, Equality, and Neutrality - Donald Wacome

Brainwashing, Deprogramming, and Mental Health - Antony Flew

Moore: The Liberator  - Tom Regan

Judging Without Justice - Randy E. Barnett

Preference Utilitarianism, Prior Existence, and Moral Replaceability - Eric Mack

Assassination -  Joseph Margolis

Hospers on the Artist's Intentions -  Mary Sirridge

Self -  J. Roger Lee

Aristotle and the Natural Rights Tradition - Fred D. Miller

Toward a Genuine Philosophy of the Performing Arts - Randall R. Dipert

Discussion Notes

Notes on Dipert's Review of The Evidence of the Senses - Robert E. Knapp

Knapp on Kelley - Randall R. Dipert

Book Reviews

David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement and Loren Lomasky's Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community - Mark C. Phillips

John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tippler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle - Charles D. Brown

Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind - Douglas J. Den Uyl

Douglas Den Uyl's Power, State, and Freedom - Wallace Matson

Michael Fox's The Case for Animal Experimentation - John Hospers

 

No. 14 Spring 1989

Special Lomasky Symposium Issue

Articles

Anarchical Snares: A Reading of Locke’s Second Treatise…..…………Stuart D. Warner

Radical Social Criticism…………………………………………………...N. Scott Arnold

Ayn Rand’s Critique of Ideology……………………………………...Chris M. Sciabarra

Will Preserving American Women’s Procreative Freedom Conflict with Achieving Equality Between the Sexes?………………………………………….….George Schedler

Responsibility and requirement of Mens Rea……………………………..Thomas A. Fay.

Lomasky Symposium

Against Lomaskyan Welfare Rights…………………………………...…Tibor R. Machan

Against Agent-Neutral Value………………………………………………...….Eric Mack

Loren Lomasky’s Derivation of Basic Rights…………………..….Christopher W. Morris

The Right to Project Pursuit and the Human Telos…………...……Douglas B. Rasmussen

Response to Four Critics……………………………………………..…Loren E. Lomasky

Discussion Notes

Rorty’s Foundationalism…………………………………………………...…Steven Yates

In My Opinion, That’s Your Opinion: Is Rorty a Foundationalist?……..William H. Davis

The Skeptic’s Dilemma: A Reply to Davis…………………………………..Steven Yates

Review Essays

Ethel Spector’s Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters……………….Mary K. Norton

Anthony Arblaster’s The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism………...…Ralph Raico

Jan Narveson’s The Libertarian Idea…………………………………...…..David Gordon

Book Reviews

Peter Huber’s Liability…The Legal Revolution and its Consequence………..Clifton Perry

Benjamin Hart’s Faith and Freedom……………………………...……Delos B. McKown

Hannes Gissurarson’s Hayek’s Conservative Liberalism…………………….…Parth Shah

 

 

No. 15 Summer 1990

Essays to Commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Completion of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature

Guest Editor by Stuart Warner

Articles

Hume on the Origin and Evolution of Religious and Philosophical Consequences……………………………………………………….Donald W. Livingston

The Virtue of Political Skepticism………………………………………….James T. King

Hume’s Account of Property…………………………………………….Nicholas Capaldi

David Hume on the Public Interest…………………………………..…..Stuart D. Warner

Spinoza and Hume on Individuals……………….……….Douglas Den Uyl and Lee Rice

Natural Rights, Philosophical Realism, and Hume’s Theory of Common Life………………………………………………………………...Douglas B. Rasmussen

Discussion Notes

In Defense of Moore’s "Proof of an External World"…………………..…John O. Nelson

Race Isn’t Merit…………………………………………………...………Eugene Sapadin

Review Essays & Reviews

William G. Scott and David K. Hart’s Organizational Values in America………………………………………………………………..….David L. Norton

Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism………..…Daniel Shapiro

 

 

 

No. 16 Fall 1991

Rethinking Foundationalism: Metaphilosophical Essays

Guest editors: Gregory R. Johnson and Glenn A Magee

Articles

Founding Philosophy………………………………………….…...………..Stanley Rosen

Philosophy without Foundations…………………………………………….G.B. Madison

Phenomenonlogy and the Foundationalism Debate………………...….John J. Drummond

Foundations, Rationality, and Intellectual Responsibility: A Pragmatic Perspective………………………………………………………...….Sandra B. Rosenthal

Deconstructing Foundationalism and the Question of Philosophy as a Systematic Science…………………………………………………………………..….William Maker

Hegel’s Remedy for the Impasse of Contemporary Philosophy……………..Richard Dien Winfield

Self-Referential Arguments in Philosophy…………………………………...Steven Yates

Evidence and Justification………………………………………………...….David Kelley

Systematic Pluralism and the Foundationalism Controversy………………Walter Watson

Discussion Notes

Game Theory and the Virtues: The New and Improved Narrowly Compliant Disposition………………………………………………………………...Grant R. Brown

Et Tu Quoque? Rationalism Reconsidered…………………………………..Paul T. Sagal

Review Essays & Reviews

David L. Norton’s Democracy and Moral Development: A Politics of Virtue…………………………………………………………………..…….Mark Turiano

Michael D. Bayles’ Procedural Justice…………………………………….Clifton Perry

 

 

 

No. 17 Summer 1992

Articles

Rawls and Envy…………………………………………………….……....George Walsh

Richard Epstein and the Theory of Strict Liability in Tort Law………………..Tomas Fay

Libertarian Theory, Customary Communal Ownership and Environmental Protection………………………………………………………………………..David Lea

Estoppel: A New Justification for Individual Rights…………………N. Stephan Kinsella

Discussion Notes

Machan’s Moral Foundations………………………………………………...Paul Gaffney

Deriving Rights from Egoism: Machan vs. Rand…………………………..….Eyal Mozes

Reply to My Critics………………………………………………………….Tibor Machan

Another Caricature of Libertarianism…………………………………..….Aeon J. Skoble

Review Essays

Philosophy as Dialogue. (Charles Griswold’s Self Knowledge in Plato’s Phaedrus)……………………………………………………………….….Jacob Howland

Natural Right and Liberalism (Douglas Rasmuessen and Douglas Den Uyl’s Liberty and Nature)………………………………………………………………………Irfan Khawaja

Without Sense or Reference (J.G. Merquior’s From Prague to Paris)………………………………………………………...………..Gregory R. Johnson

Attention-Mongers (Ernest Gellner;’s The Pschoanalytic Movement)…...…J.G. Merquior

Book Reviews

Douglas J. Den Uyl’s The Virtue of Prudence………………………………David Norton

John Casey’s Pagan Virtue……………………………………….….Kelley Dean Jolley

Tibor Machan’s Capitalism and Individualism……………………….....John D. McCallie

Gerard Elfstrom’s Moral Issues and Multinational Corporations..…..Douglas J. Den Uyl

Michael Luntley’s The Meaning of Socialism…………………….………Aeon J. Skoble

Adam Przeworski’s The State and the Economy Under Capitalism……….Mark Thornton

No. 18 Fall 1993

Special Issue on Ethics and Political Philosophy

Guest Editor: Fred D. Miller. Jr.

Symposium: Feminist Philosophy Reconsidered

Feminism and Resentment………………………………………..Christina Hoff Sommers

Feminist Theory Reconfigured………………………………………....Patrice Di Quinzio

Epistemological Reflections of an Old Feminist………………………..……Susan Haack

Who Knows? What Can They Know? and When?……………….Lynn Hankinson Nelson

Criticizing the Feminist Critique of Objectivity………………………..……….E.R. Klein

Symposium: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order by Douglass B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl

Introduction………………………………………………………………Fred D. Miller Jr.

Aristotelian ethics and Natural Rights: A Critique…………………...…Martin P. Golding

Does Liberalism Need Natural Rights/…………………………..……….Russel Hittinger

Rasmussen and Den Uyl on Natural Rights……………………………………..Eric Mack

Commendations and Queries re Liberty and Nature…………………..…….Henry Veatch

Natural Ends and Natural Rights……………………………………..………..Jeffrey Paul

Reply to Critics……………..…………. Douglass B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl

Articles

Aristotle and Anarchism………………………………………………………..David Keyt

Justice and Rights to Health Care……………………………………….Kenneth F.T. Cust

Liberal Egalitarianism, Basic Rights, and Free Market Capitalism…….….Daniel Shapiro

Review Essay

Susan Moller Okin’s Justice, Gender and the Family……………………..Karen I. Vaugh

 

 

Volume 19, Fall 1994

Articles

Wittgenstein and Thoreau (and Cavell): The Ordinary Weltanschaung……………. ……………………………………………………………………….Kelley Dean Jolley

Liberalism and the Moral Significance of Individualism: A Deweyan View

……………………………………………………………………….….H. G. Callaway

Nietzschean Individualism and Liberal Theory………………….…..…Bruce Detweiler

The Radical Feminist Attack on Reason………………………………Steven Mandelker

Habermas, Lyotard, and Political Discourse………………….……………Paul Fairfield

Discussions

On Kelley on Kant…………………………………………………….…….Fred Seddon

Response to Seddon…………………………………………………………David Kelley

A 231 Word Refutation of Churchland’s Vision………………………….Laurie Calhoun

The Non-Sequitur of Value Relativism: A Critique of John Gray’s "Post-Liberalism"

………………………………………………………………………Gregory R. Johnson

Are Functionalist Accounts of Goodness Relative?……………..….David E. W. Fenner

Review Essays

How Not to Eliminate Discrimination…………….………………………..Antony Flew

In Search of Liberal Sociology…………………………………………...Steven Horwitz

A New Look at the Anthropic Principle……………….Marie George & Warren Murray

If You’re So Rich…The Economic Approach to Epistemology…….Alexander Tabarrok

Book Reviews

Stephen Holmes’ The Anatomy of Antiliberalism…………………………..Scott Boykin

Jonathan Jacobs’ Being True to the World…………………………………Aeon J. Skoble

Andrew B. Schmookler’s The Illusion of Choice……………………Christopher Lingle

David Gordon’s Resurrecting Marx………………….……………………..Peter Boettke

Theodore Becker’s Quantum Politics……….…………………………….Ingemar Nordin

The New Science of Fuzzy Logic………..………………………………David E. Walker

 

 

No. 20 Fall 1995

Articles

Theory and Autonomy………………………………………………………….Ann Hartle

Toward a Liberal Theory of Ideology – A Quasi – Marxian exploration……Jan Narveson

Ayn Rand on Units, Essences, and the Intrinsic……………………………...Steven Yates

Liberalism in Prewar Japan: Origins, Evaluation and Demise…..…….Mary L. Hanneman

Interdependent Decision making, Game Theory and Conformity…...Kathleen Touchstone

Some Simple Problems with Simplicity………………………………..….Laurie Calhoun

Review Essays & Reviews

Reclaiming the Mainstream, Individualistic Feminist Rediscovered……….Claire Morgan

The Unplanned Society: Poland During and After Communism……..….Ryszard Legutko

Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace……………………………….Gregory R. Johnson

The Philosophy of Childhood…………………………………………..Kelly Dean Jolley

Expectations and the meaning of Institutions: Essays in Economics by Ludwig Lachman………………………………………………………….….T. Franklin Harris, Jr.

A Professor’s Duties…………………………………………………………..J.R. Chesher

No Harm: Ethical Principles for a Free Market……………………….N. Stephan Kinsella

Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use it………N. Stephen Kinsella

 

 

 

 

No. 21 Fall 1996

Special Issue on Thoreau

Guest Editor: Kelley Dean Jolley

Articles

Wildness, Language, and Solitude…………………………………….…..Crispin Sartwell

Is forgiveness possible? The concrete cases of Thoreau and Rushdie (on)(writing) the unforgivable……………………………………………………………...……Rupert Read

Walden: Philosophy and the Knowledge of Humankind……………….Kelly Dean Jolley

Discussion Notes

When Avoiding Scholarship is the Academic Thing To Do: Mary Midgely’s Misinterpretation of Ayn Rand……………………………….……….Robert L. Campbell

Review Essay

Smith, Moral Rights and Political Freedom……………………..………….Irfan Khawaja

Book Reviews

Review of Julia Kristeva’s Nations without Nationalism………………Ronald Hamowy

Review of John Christman’s The Myth of Property……………………….Jan Narveson

Dialectical Objectivism? A Review of Chris Sciabarra’s Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical………………………………………………………………...…..Roger E. Bissell

Review of Mary Lefkowitz’s Not Out of Africa………………….……Aeon James Skoble

Hans-Hermanne Hoppe’s Austrian Philosophy……………………………..Stephen Yates

Review of Murray N. Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought………………………………………………………,,…..………..…..Parth Shah

Review of Paul Christopher’s The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction to Legal and Moral Issues…………………………………………………..……William J. Corliss

Review of Nicholas Rescher’s Luck: The brilliant randomness of everyday life ………………………………………………………………..…...Thomas J. Radcliffe

 

 

 

 

No. 22 Fall 1997

Articles

Nietzsche: The Myth and Its Method………………………………………Fred Seddon

Reply to Critics: Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical – A Work in Progress…………………………………………………………..Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Land and Human Endowments…………………………………………..Damon J. Gross

Symposium on Bioethics

Introduction………………………………………………………..Robert M. Sade, M.D.

A Feminist Interpretation of Engelhardt’s Bioethics: More a Moral Friend Than a Moral Stranger………………………………………………………….……….Rosemarie Tong

Concepts of Health and Disease: Comments on Chapter 5 of Engelhardt’s The Foundations of Bioethics, 2nd Edition……………………………………James G. Lennox

The Moral Foundations of Health Services Reform………………. Robert M. Sade, M.D.

Engelhardt’s Foundations……………………………………………....Tom Beauchamps

The Foundations of Bioethics: Liberty and Life with Moral Diversity…………………………………………………….….H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Discussion Notes

God……………………………………………………………...……………Jan Narveson

Answer to Professor Narveson’s ‘God’………………………….……Fr. Robert A. Sirico

Narveson’s Liberation Epistemology………………………………..………Mark Turiano

Review Essays

Pluralism about Truth: Crispin Wight’s Truth and Objectivity………..…..Kevin Kennedy

Strange New World: Gottlieb Florshultz’s Swedenborg and Kant (and six other books on Kant)…………………………………………………………………..Gregory R. Johnson

Book Reviews

Fred D. Miller’s Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics….…Randell R. Curren

Philip Mirowski’s Natural Images in Economic Thought……………..John C. Moorhouse

Susan Haack’s Evidence and Inquiry……………………………………Wallace Matson

Ian Watt’s Myths of Modern Individualism…………………………………Stephen Cox

James VI and I: Political Writings, Johann Sommerville, ed…..Thomas J. Radcliffe

The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza………………….………….Mark T. Conard

Margaret Moore’s Foundations of Liberalism………………………....Eyal Mozes

James T. Cushing’s Quantum Mechanics………………………..Laurence I. Gould

Lenn Goodman’s God of Abraham………………………………….Eyal Mozes

Edward Keynes’ Liberty, Prosperity, and Privacy……………….Howard Hood

 

 

No. 23 Fall 1998

Articles

On the Fit between Egoism and Rights………………………………………Eric Mack

Resolving Tension in Aristotle’s Ethic: The Balance Between Naturalism and Responsibility…………………………………………………………David E. W. Fenner

The Irrationality of the Extended Order: The Fatal Conceit of F.A. Hayek..Larry J Schrest

Special Forum: Rand & Philosophy

A Philosopher for the new Millennium?………………………………..Fred D. Miller, Jr.

On Rand as a Philosopher………………………………….………….Douglas J. Den Uyl

Rand and Philosophy (and Capitalism)…………………………....Douglas B. Rasmussen

Ayn Rand’s Contribution to Philosophy…………………………..……Neera K. Badhwar

What is living in the Philosophy of Ayn Rand?…………………….………Lester H. Hunt

Rand and Objectivity………………………………………………………..David Kelley

Rand Revisited………………………………………………………………..J. Roger Lee

Ayn Rand’s Philosophical Significance……………………………………...John Hospers

Ayn Rand as Moral Political Philosopher………………. ….Jan Narveson

Discussion Notes

Kamhi and Torres on Meaning in Ayn Rand’s Esthetics…………………Roger E. Bissell

Addressing Some Critics………………………………………………….….Jan Narveson

Review Essay

How Stephen Pinker’s Mind Works…………………………………….Roger E . Bissell

A Renaissance in Rand Scholarship……………………………..Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Book Reviews

Gerald Gaus’ Justificatory Liberalism…………………………………..N. Scott Arnold

David Fernandez-Morea’s American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas……………………………………………………………….……Alexander Dunlop

 

 

 

 

No. 24 Fall 1999

Articles

Debunking Popper: A Critique of Karl Popper’s Critical Rationalism…....Nicholas Dykes

Is Virtue Only a Means to Happiness? An Analysis of Virtue and Happiness in Ayn Rand’s Writings………………………………………………….……..Neera K. Badhwar

Foundations, Philosophy, and the Location of Socrates’ Feet………...……Nino Langiulli

Discussion Notes

Dispensing with (Men of) Reason…………………………………..Stephen Hetherington

Ethics and the Wittgenstein Approach…………………………………………Eyal Moses

Review Essay

Zoon Eluetherion: Man as an Individualist Animal…………………………Irfan Khawaja

Attending to Mind Itself…………………………………………….…….Roger E. Bissell

Book Reviews

Ann Hartles’ Self Knowledge in the Age of Theory………………...….John C. McCarthy

Robert Kane’s The Significance of Free Will…………………………….Roger E. Bissell

Bouwsma’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, 1965-1975……………….…Tim Black

Stephen R.L. Clark’s Animals and Their Moral Standing………………....Jody L Graham

 

 

 

No. 25 Fall 2000

Articles

Nonrelativty and Subjectivity of Aesthetic Claims…………………………Imtiaz Moosa

On Economic Rent: Michael Jordan, The Reichmann Brothers, and Jim Smith, Day-laborer: whom do we get to Tax, and Why?…………………………………Jan Narveson

Some Ethical Aspects of Antidumping Laws…………………………..Robert W. McGee

Discussion Notes

The Case of David Friedman………………………………..…………..Robert P. Murphy

Review Essay

Whose Liberalism? Which Individualism?……………………………….....Irfan Khawaja

Sex Skeptics: Speech is Free but Thought Remains in Chains……………Elizabeth Brake

Book Review

Larry Arnhart’s Darwinian Natural Right………………………….……….Steven Wall

Volume 26 Summer 2003

Editorial regarding change in editor

Articles

Money Can Buy Happiness - Tara Smith
The Ambiguity of Kant’s Concept of Happiness -  Thomas Marshall
Popper on “Social Engineering”: A Classical Liberal View -  Tom Avery

Discussion Notes

Libertarianism vs. Objectivism: A Response to Peter Schwartz -  Walter Block

Review Essays

Tara Smith’s Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality - Irfan Khawaja

Book Reviews

Randy Cohen's The Good, the Bad & the Difference: How to Tell Right From Wrong in Everyday Situations
                                reviewed by Steven Sanders

Richard Schacht's Nietzsche’s Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche’s Prelude to Philosophy’s Future
                               
reviewed by Mark T. Conard

Charlotte Twight's Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans
                                reviewed by Irfan Khawaja

 

Volume 27 Fall 2004

Editorial

Articles

Mere Libertarianism: Blending Hayek and Rothbard - Daniel Klein
The Moral Argument for a Policy of Assassination - Stephen Kershnar
Does Ethical Subjectivism Pose a Challenge to Classical Liberalism? - Niclas Beggren
Property Rights vs. Utilitarianism: Two Views of Ethics - Robert McGee
Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Unjust Government (part 1 of 2) - Walter Block

Discussions

The Law of People and Cosmopolitan Critique - Aysel Dogan

Book Reviews

Khaled El Fadl's The Place of Tolerance in Islam, reviewed by Irfan Khawaja
Christopher Hitchens' A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq, reviewed by Irfan Khawaja
Georges Lieberts' Nietzsche and Music, reviewed by Mark T. Conard