Center for the Philosophy of Freedom
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The Center's mission is to promote the understanding and appreciation of the ideals of freedom and responsibility along four dimensions: published research, undergraduate education, graduate education, and community outreach. |
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Books Authored
 Using a fusion of philosophical, social scientific, and historical methods, -- A Brief History of Liberty -- offers a... Read more 0 |
 The most widely accepted justification for political authority is that coercive institutions are necessary to provide for... Read more 0 |
Books Edited by Faculty at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom
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Creating Wealth: Ethical and Economic Perspectives is a collection of classic and contemporary economic and philosophical... more 0 |
Research Papers
| Title | Author | Publication | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moral Theory: Priority of the Right | Rational Choice and Moral Agency | 2010 | |
| Rediscovering the Moral Sciences | Austrian Review of Economics | 2017 | |
| Phronesis and the Virtues | Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics | 2012 | |
| Philosophy of Law (Deterrence & Criminal Attempts) | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | 1987 | |
| Steiner's Essay on Rights | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | 1996 | |
| The Language of Ethics | Creating Wealth: | 2010 | |
| What Is Justice? | Elements of Justice | 2005 | |
| Respect for Nature | Environmental Ethics | 2012 | |
| Natural Enemies | Environmental Ethics | 2000 | |
| When Preservationism Doesn’t Preserve | Environmental Values | 1997 | |
| Philosophical Logic (Parsons on the Liar Paradox) | Erkenntnis | 1990 | |
| Nonideal Theory: What It Is and What it Needs to Be | Ethics | 2011 | |
| Justifying the State | Ethics | 1990 | |
| Humanly rational choice 2 (how we choose goals) | Ethics | 1994 | |
| When Justice Matters | Ethics | 2007 | |
| 0n Property (as a social experiment) | European Liberal Forum | 2009 | |
| Free Will As a Political Problem | from Brief History of Liberty | 2011 | |
| Are All Species Equal? | Journal of Applied Philosophy | 2000 | |
| On Satz, Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale | Journal of Philosophy | 2011 | |
| Humanly rational choice 1 (why we don't maximize) | Journal of Philosophy | 1992 | |
| Islands In a Sea of Obligation | Law & Philosophy | 2000 | |
| Humanly rational choice 4 (on the nature and limits of decision theory) | Midwest Studies in Philosophy | 2004 | |
| A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis | Nous (Philosophical Issues) | 2001 | |
| Experimental Philosophy: Theory | On the Reliability of Economic Models | 1995 | |
| 0n Property (legal history) | Oxford History of Political Philosophy | 2015 |