Philosophy and Methodology

He grants absolution to government.

Part of the fun of studying philosophy is that it is a very difficult, technical subject. If you know the meaning of "rigid designator," the "inscrutability of reference," and the "private-language argument,"

Michael Levin has gotten himself into enormous trouble with his fellow philosophers by adhering to a standard maxim in the philosophy of science. 

Ed Shanahan on the significance of the Austrian tradition. 

Financial instability and anti-capitalist fallacies about booms and busts. 

Donald Livingston's brilliant Philosophical Melancholy ranks as the most unusual philosophy book I have ever read.

To neoconservatives and even to some libertarians, Sidney Hook is a hero. 

Even when compared with other works of philosophy, this is an odd book. Readers who have been spared much acquaintance with contemporary moral philosophy will be inclined to toss the book away when they learn its central thesis.

You can lead a neoclassical to Austrian waters, but you can't make him drink. Sherwin Rosen, a distinguished Chicago School economist, thinks that gains from trade between neoclassical and Austrian economics are possible.

G.A. Cohen is my favorite Marxist. He takes libertarian-political theory with extreme seriousness, and again and again he makes points devastating to socialism.G.A.