An interview with Elizabeth Anderson. Here’s the overview from Philosophy Talk:
Does the free market provide incentives for behavior that is problematic from a moral perspective? Or does the free market punish morally problematic behavior? Is respecting the free market itself moral, insofar as respecting the free market is also respecting individual freedom of choice?
Archive for the ‘Political Theory’ Category
What is Wrong
Posted in General Interest, Political Theory, tagged political debate, Roberts Rules on July 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The single mechanism for individuals to make real change happen has all but been abandoned. It is simply the deliberative meeting where people speak, debate, vote and commit to actually do something.
Rose’s Political Continuum
Posted in General Interest, Political Theory on March 17, 2009 | 12 Comments »
As a political philosopher, I believe that one of my tasks is to reduce complicated issues to basic principles. Hence this graphic. It represents my conclusions on the opposing ideas of war and peace. While war is sometimes necessary, and peace is often sought after, it seems to me that in [...]
Alison Des Forges (1942-2009)
Posted in Ethics, General Interest, Political Theory, Race and Gender on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A memorial notice can be found here.
Des Forges, born in Schenectady, New York, in 1942, began working on Rwanda as a student and dedicated her life and work to understanding the country, to exposing the serial abuses suffered by its people and helping to bring about change. She was best known for her award-winning account [...]
Podcast: The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Political Theory, Race and Gender on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an AALS podcast on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This podcast has three speakers, Tim Coulter, Angelique Eaglewoman and G.W. Rice. While listening to the podcast, it’s helpful to look at the UN Declaration, as speakers refer to various articles in their discussions.
Tim Coulter discusses how the Declaration got started, why [...]
The Native Vote: Post-Election
Posted in General Interest, Political Theory, Race and Gender on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a historic year for native voters, one might wonder how the native vote affected the election. Here’s a report:
Despite an unprecedented outreach by president-elect Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, some states with significant Indian populations safely sided with Republican John McCain on election day.
Indian voters have played a difference in close elections, especially [...]
Leiter on the Election
Posted in General Interest, Political Theory on November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Brian Leiter (Chicago) reflects on the election.
President Obama
Posted in General Interest, Political Theory, Race and Gender, tagged Obama on November 5, 2008 | 14 Comments »
God bless the new President of the United States!
Now let us do all we can do to help him uphold his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States! Let those of us who pray, pray for him, and let all of us ensure that he hears the voice of the American [...]
Evil Smells like a Fart
Posted in Ethics, General Interest, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Psychology, Political Theory on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via Eric Schwitzgebel I learn of what is quite possibly the best study ever, simply because it uses fart spray so awesomely. However, this sort of study is interesting for reasons beyond the creative use of fart spray.
As I’ve previously noted, explicit use of disgust-based arguments are often found in popular moral and legal debates, [...]
How is Voting like Eating an Éclair?
Posted in General Interest, Political Theory on October 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
David Runciman (Cambridge) discusses voting, sorites paradoxes and plenty more in this interesting review of Richard Tuck’s book Free Riding.
Here’s an excerpt of the review:
[A]lthough in theory it only requires one vote to take someone over the top, in practice, the closer you get to that threshold the harder it is to find it, as [...]
The Native Vote: Clips from the Blogosphere
Posted in Ethics, General Interest, Political Theory, Race and Gender on September 25, 2008 | Comments Off
As longtime readers know, I’ve been blogging about American Indian political issues here for almost a year now. Yet I have only just begun to scratch the surface. I take it as a given that these issues are relevant to folks working in political philosophy, ethics, and so forth. I also understand these issues aren’t [...]
Contract Law and the U.S. Constitution
Posted in Political Theory on September 19, 2008 | 41 Comments »
From a popular tutorial on contract management, we may learn the following:
“A contract is…a formal written agreement between two individuals or organizations for the procurement of commodities and services.
Every contract consists of the following five elements:
