Issue 34, no. 2 - october 2012 (Full Issue)

• Editorial

Symposium: Sari Nusseibeh’s What Is a Palestinian State Worth?

• Variations on a Lockean Theme: Sari Nusseibeh’s Heretical Proposal for Israel/Palestine                                —Irfan Khawaja
• The Return of Abu Nasr al-Farabi —Paul A. Rahe
• A Modest Proposal: Is It? —Said Zeedani
• Nusseibeh on Secular Faith —Fahmi Abboushi
• What Is a Palestinian State Worth to the Palestinians? —Donna Robinson Divine
• Reflections on What a Palestinian State Is Worth —Issam Nassar
• A Response to Five Critics —Sari Nusseibeh

Articles

• Independence and the Virtuous Community —Daniel O. Dahlstrom
• Is Life the Ultimate Value? A Reassessment of Ayn Rand’s Ethics —Ole Martin Moen
• Self-Ownership and Justice in Acquisition —Lamont Rodgers

Discussion Notes

• Direct and Overall Liberty: Replies to Walter Block and Claudia Williamson —Daniel B. Klein and Michael J. Clark
• Property and Progress —Gordon Barnes
• Rejoinder to David Prychitko on Austrian Dogmatism —Walter E. Block

Review Essays

• The Space of Music: Review Essay of Dmitri Tymoczko’s A Geometry of Music  —Roger Scruton
• Review Essay: Ralf M. Bader’s Robert Nozick and Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft’s (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia  —Dale Murray
• Review Essay: Timothy Sandefur’s The Right to Earn a Living —David M. Wagner

Book Reviews

• Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Honor Code —Joseph Biehl
• Donald Livingston’s Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century —Gary Jason
• Scott Douglas Gerber’s A Distinct Judicial Power  —Joyce Lee Malcolm
• Jeffrey Friedman’s (ed.) What Caused the Financial Crisis —Thomas L. Hogan
• John A. Allison’s The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure —Arnold Kling
• Ibn Warraq’s Virgins? What Virgins? and Other Essays —David Cook
• Yoani Sanchez’s Havana Real —Glenn Garvin

Afterwords

• America the Philosophical: Carlin Romano on Ayn Rand —Stephen Hicks
• Letters from Lahore: Osama bin Laden, “Internal Sovereignty,” and the “Black Coat Movement”                         —Khalil Ahmad

Issue 34, No. 1 - June 2012 (Full Issue)

• Editorial

Special Issue: Imagining Better: Philosophical Issues in Harry Potter

Part I: Metaphysics, Literature, and Self-Understanding

• Don’t Occupy Gringotts: Harry Potter, Social Upheaval, and the Moral Imagination  —Travis Prinzi
• Harry Potter and the Metaphysics of Soul-Splitting  —Gregory Bassham
• Harry Potter and Humanity: Choices, Love, and Death  —Shawn E. Klein
• Kierkegaard’s Mirror (of Erised)  —Joel B. Hunter

Part II: Integrating Theory and Practice for Living Well

• Descending from King’s Cross: Platonic Structure, Aristotelian Content   —Carrie-Ann Biondi
• Harry Gets by With a Little Help from His Friends: An Aristotelian Reading of Virtue and Friendship in Harry Potter  —Jennifer Mogg and Kendra Tully
• Heroic Hermione: Celebrating the Love of Learning  —Patrick Shade
• House-Elves, Hogwarts, and Friendship: Casting Away the Institutions which Made Voldemort’s Rise Possible  —Susan Peppers-Bates and Joshua Rust

Part III: The Dark Side of the Moral Imagination

• Voldemort Tyrannos: Plato’s Tyrant in the Republic and the Wizarding World  —Anne Collins Smith and Owen M. Smith
• “Neither Can Live While the Other Survives”: The Driving Force of Revenge in Harry Potter  —Heidi Nielson
• Spells and Hate Speech: Linguistic Violence and Vulnerability in the Harry Potter Series  —Anna McFarlane

Issue No. 33 – Fall 2011 (Full Issue)

• Editorial

Symposium: Rand and Hayek on Cognition and Trade

• Rand versus Hayek on Abstraction —David Kelley
• Meaning in the Market: The Incompatibility of F. A. Hayek’s and Ayn Rand’s Accounts of the Free Market —J. A. Baker

Articles

• Do Moral Dilemmas Tell against the Consistency of a Given Moral System?         —Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
• Extremely Harsh Treatment —Stephen Kershnar
• How a Libertarian Might Oppose Same-Sex Marriage —Mazen Guirguis

Discussion Notes

• Adam Smith on Commerce and Happiness: A Response to Den Uyl and Rasmussen —Dennis C. Rasmussen
• Smith on Economic Happiness: Rejoinder to Dennis C. Rasmussen —Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen
• Disagreement between Direct and Overall Liberty: Even Less Troubling than Suggested? —Claudia R. Williamson
• Critical Comment on Klein and Clark on Direct and Overall Liberty —Walter E. Block
• Libertarian Arguments for Anarchism —Stephen Kershnar

Review Essays

• Review Essay: Ronna Burger’s Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics, Paula Gottlieb’s The Virtue of Aristotle’s Ethics, and Eric Salem’s In Pursuit of the Good: Intellect and Action in Aristotle’s Ethics                —Carrie-Ann Biondi
• Review Essay: Paul Berman’s The Flight of the Intellectuals and Tariq Ramadan’s What I Believe —Irfan Khawaja
• Review Essay: Grappling with “Big Painting”: Akela Reason’s Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History —Adrienne Baxter Bell

Book Reviews

• Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman’s (ed.) Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden —Elizabeth Barre
• Tom G. Palmer’s Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice —Edward Feser
• David E. Bernstein’s Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform —Scott D. Gerber

Afterwords

• Does Islam Need a Reformation? —David Kelley
• The Arab Spring: “Why Exactly at This Time?” —Sadek J. al-Azm

Issue No. 32 – Fall 2010 (Full Issue)

• Editorial

Articles

• An Ethical Defense of Global-Warming Skepticism —William Irwin and Brian Williams
• Adam Smith on Economic Happiness —Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen
• Direct and Overall Liberty: Areas and Extent of Disagreement —Daniel B. Klein and Michael J. Clark
• Violence and Postmodernism: A Conceptual Analysis —Iddo Landau
• Providing for Aesthetic Experience —Jason Holt
• Why Has Aesthetic Formalism Fallen on Hard Times? —David E. W. Fenner
• Austro-Libertarian Publishing: A Survey and Critique —Walter E. Block

Discussion Notes

• Left-Libertarianism–An Oxymoron? —Tibor R. Machan
• Rejoinder to Hoppe on Indifference Once Again —Walter E. Block with William Barnett II

Review Essay

• Review Essay: Edward Feser’s Locke and Eric Mack’s John Locke —Irfan Khawaja

Book Review

• James Stacey Taylor’s Practical Autonomy and Bioethics —Thomas D. Harter

Issue No. 31 – Fall 2009 (Full Issue)

• Editorial

Articles: Business Ethics Symposium

NOTE: the print edition of RP #31 contained the wrong version of Elaine Sternberg’s article. This website also had the incorrect version prior to 5/17/10. The error has been corrected, so the link below does go to the correct version.

• Rival Paradigms in Business Ethics —Nicholas Capaldi
• The Need for Realism in Business Ethics —Elaine Sternberg
• The Virtue of Prudence as the Moral Basis of Commerce —Tibor R. Machan
• Hume and Smith on the Moral Psychology of Market Relations, Practical Wisdom, and the Liberal Political Order —Jonathan Jacobs
• Ethics without Profits —Douglas Den Uyl
• Is a Market for Values a Value in Markets? —Alexei Marcoux
• The Sloppiness of Business Ethics —Marianne Jennings
• The Business Ethics of Incarceration: The Moral Implications of Treating Prisons Like Businesses —Daniel D’Amico

Review Essay

• Review Essay: Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, Paul Starr’s Freedom’s Power: The History and Promise of Liberalism, and Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.’s The Decline of American Liberalism —Irfan Khawaja

Book Reviews

• Paul Bloomfield, ed.’s Morality and Self-Interest —Jonathan Jacobs
• Robert Levy and William Mellor’s The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom —Timothy Sandefur

Issue No. 30 – Fall 2008 (Full Issue)

• Editorial

Articles

• How Not to Argue Against Paternalism —William Glod
• To Be, Perchance to Sue —Clifton Perry
• Ethical Principles, Charity, and a Criterion for Giving —Kathleen Touchstone
• On Hummel on Austrian Business Cycle Theory —William Barnett II & Walter Block

Review Essay

• Review Essay: Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist —Carrie-Ann Biondi

Book Reviews

• Emily Wilson’s The Death of Socrates —Mary R. Lefkowitz
• William E. Hudson’s The Libertarian Illusion —Jan Narveson
• Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s War and the American Presidency —H.G. Callaway
• Jerry Kirkpatrick’s Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education — David Gordon

Issue No. 29 – Fall 2007 (Full Issue)

• Editorial

Articles

• Morality and the Foundations of Practical Reason —Brian Zamulinski
• A Unified Theory of Intrinsic Value —Stephen Kershnar
• Relativism and Progress —Howard Darmstadter
• Are You in a Dilemma? What Disturbing Choices Say about Our Character —Jason Swedene
• Respect for Persons and the Authority of Morality —Matt Zwolinski
• Lomasky on Practical Reason: Personal Value and Metavalues —Shane Courtland
• Political Obligations and the Duties of Friends —Nkiruka Ahiauzu
• An Economic, Political, and Philosophical Analysis of Externalities —Brian P. Simpson
• War, Reason, and Libertarians —Angelo M. Codevilla
• Plumb-Line Libertarianism: A Critique of Hoppe —Walter Block

Articles

ASVI Symposium on The Passion for Liberty

• Liberty and Welfare —James P. Sterba
• The Right to Liberty versus the Right to Welfare: A Reply to Sterba—Tibor R. Machan

Review Essay

• Review Essay: Amy E. White’s Virtually Obscene: The Case for an Uncensored Internet — James Stacey Taylor

Book Review

• Isaiah Berlin’s Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought —Jordon Barkalow

Issue No. 28 – Spring 2006 (Full Issue)

• Editorial

Symposium: Angelo Codevilla’s No Victory, No Peace

• Victory: Means and End – Irfan Khawaja
• A Florentine in Baghdad: Codevilla on the War on Terror – Roderick T. Long
• Angelo Codevilla and William Tecumseh Sherman – Spengler

AAPSS Symposium: War and Liberty

• War and Liberty – Aeon J. Skoble
• The Justice and Prudence of War: Toward a Libertarian Analysis – Roderick T. Long (NOTE: this article is a rough 2003 draft mistakenly published here instead of the finished 2006 version; the correct, final version was published here)

Articles

• How Libertarians Ought to Think about the U.S. Civil War – Tim Sandefur
• Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government (Part 2of 2) – Walter Block

Review Essay

• Stephen R.C. Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: A Discussion – Steven M. Sanders

Book Reviews

• Hilary Putnam’s The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays – Roderick T. Long
• Roger Kimball’s The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art – Brenda Molife

Issue No. 27 – Fall 2004 (Full Issue)

• 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 Peoples 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

Issue No. 26 – Summer 2003 (Full Issue)

• 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
• Charlotte Twight’s Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans, reviewed by Irfan Khawaja
• Richard Schacht’s Nietzsche’s Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche’s Prelude to Philosophy’s Future, reviewed by Mark T. Conard

Issue No. 25 – Fall 2000 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Nonrelativity 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

Issue No. 24 – Fall 1999 (Full Issue)

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 Mozes

Review Essay

• Zoon Eleutherion: 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

Issue No. 23 – Fall 1998 (Full Issue)

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. Sechrest

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
• Dario Fernandez-Morera’s American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas – Alexander Dunlop

Issue No. 22 – Fall 1997 (Full Issue)

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, 2^nd Edition – James G. Lennox
• The Moral Foundations of Health Services Reform – Robert M. Sade, M.D.
• Engelhardt’s Foundations – Tom Beauchamp
• 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 – Randall 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

Issue No. 21 – Fall 1996 (Full Issue)

Special Issue on Thoreau
Guest Editor: Kelley Dean Jolley

• Introduction – Tibor R. Machan
• Preface – 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

• Tara 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-Hermann 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

Issue No. 20 – Fall 1995 (Full Issue)

• Dedication – The Editors

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 Lachmann – 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. Stephan Kinsella

Issue No. 19, Fall 1994 (Full Issue)

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

Issue No. 18 – Fall 1993 (Full Issue)

Special Issue on Ethics and Political Philosophy
Guest Editor: Fred D. Miller. Jr.

• Acknowledgments – 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: Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl, Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order

• Introduction – Fred D. Miller Jr.
• Aristotelian Ethics and Natural Rights: A Critique – Martin P. Golding
• Does Liberalism Need Natural Rights? – Russell 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. Vaughn

Issue No. 17 – Summer 1992 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Rawls and Envy – George Walsh
• Richard Epstein and the Theory of Strict Liability in Tort Law – Thomas 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 R. 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 Rasmussen 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 Psychoanalytic 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

Issue No. 16 – Fall 1991 (Full Issue)

Rethinking Foundationalism: Metaphilosophical Essays
Guest editors: Gregory R. Johnson and Glenn A Magee

• Preface – Gregory R. Johnson and Glenn A. Magee

Articles

• Founding Philosophy – Stanley Rosen
• Philosophy without Foundations – G.B. Madison
• Phenomenology 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

Issue No. 15 – Summer 1990 (Full Issue)

Essays to Commemorate the 250^th anniversary of the Completion of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature
Guest Editor: Stuart Warner

Articles

• Abbreviations for David Hume’s Works Used Throughout This Issue
• 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

Issue No. 14 – Spring 1989 (Full Issue)

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 the 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

Issue No. 13 – Spring 1988 (Full Issue)

The Free and Noble Spirit: A Festschrift for John Hospers

• Preface – Tibor R. Machan

Appreciation

• John Hospers and the Activity of Philosophy – 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

Issue No. 12 – Spring 1987 (Full Issue)

• Editor’s Note – Tibor R. Machan

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 Senses: 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

Issue No. 11 – Spring 1986 (Full Issue)

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 Donnelly
• 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

Issue No. 10 – Spring 1985 (Full Issue)

• Editorial – Tibor R. Machan

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

Issue No. 9 – Winter 1983 (Full Issue)

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

Issue No. 8 – Summer 1982 (Full Issue)

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

Issue No. 7 – Spring 1981 (Full Issue)

Articles

• 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

Issue No. 6, Spring 1980 (Full Issue)

Articles

• 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

Issue No. 5 – Winter 1979 (Full Issue)

Articles

• 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

Issue No. 4 – Winter 1978 (Full Issue)

Articles

• 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.

Issue No. 3, Fall 1976 (Full Issue)

Articles

• 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

Issue No. 2, Fall 1975 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Dissolving a Muddle in Economics – Sidney Trivius
• Boundaries on Social Contract – James M. Buchanan
• Facts and Values: Is there a 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

Issue No. 1, Fall 1974 (Full Issue)

Articles

• 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