Defending Liberty: Essays in Honor of David Gordon

Contributors

ROGER E. BISSELL is a professional musician with an M.A. in performance and literature (University of Iowa) and a B.S. in theory and composition (Iowa State University). Currently the Associate Editor of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies and a research associate with the Molinari Institute, he has written and edited numerous essays and books, including How the Martians Discovered Algebra: Explorations in Induction and the Philosophy of Mathematics (2014) and What’s in Your File Folder? Essays on the Nature and Logic of Propositions (2019), as well as The Dialectics of Liberty: Exploring the Context of Human Freedom, which he co-edited with Chris Matthew Sciabarra and Edward W. Younkins (2019).

BILLY CHRISTMAS is a Lecturer in Political Theory and PPE Program Director in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He has published articles in journals such as The Journal of Politics, Economics and Philosophy, and The Philosophical Quarterly, and recently wrote a book published with Routledge called Property and Justice: A Liberal Theory of Natural Rights.

DOUGLAS J. DEN UYL is Vice President of Educational Programs at Liberty Fund. He has published essays or books on Spinoza, Smith, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, and others, and is coauthor on a number of works with Douglas B. Rasmussen. The most recent of which is The Realist Turn: Repositioning Liberalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

STEPHEN R. C. HICKS is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University and author of The Art of Reasoning: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393972143/. Readings for Logical Analysis, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Postmodernism-Skepticism-Socialism-Rousseau/dp/0983258406/stephickphil-20, Nietzsche and the Nazis https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097942707X/, Entrepreneurial Living https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071LPYDPM/, and Liberalism Pro and Con. He has published in Business Ethics Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, and The Wall Street Journal, and his writings have been translated into eighteen languages. He has been Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.), Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College (Oxford University), and Visiting Professor at the University of Kasimir the Great (Poland).

R. KEVIN HILL is Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought (Oxford, 2003) and Nietzsche: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2007). He is the editor and co-translator of The Will to Power (Penguin, 2017), as well as the editor and translator of Nietzsche’s Joyous Science (Penguin, 2018).

LESTER HUNT is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has also taught at Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, and The Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively on ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Origins of Virtue (Routledge, 1990) Character and Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide (Wiley, 2015), and The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-author of Debating Gun Control (Oxford, 2016).

ALEJANDRA M. SALINAS holds a B.A. in Political Science and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). She is a Professor of Political and Social Theory in the Department of Social Sciences (UCA). She also serves as Director of the B.A. in Political Science (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero). Her research interests focus on contemporary classical liberalism and its critics, theories of populism, and a political approach to Latin American fiction literature. She is the author of Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017). Her works are available at https://untref.academia.edu/AlejandraSalinas

AEON J. SKOBLE is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Coordinator of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at Bridgewater State University. Skoble is the author of Deleting the State: An Argument about Government (Open Court, 2008) and The Essential Nozick (Fraser Institute, 2020), the editor of Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on Norms of Liberty (Lexington Books, 2008), and co-editor of Political Philosophy: Essential Selections (Prentice-Hall, 1999) and Reality, Reason, and Rights (Lexington Books, 2011. He has also co-edited four books on film and television

JASMINE RAE STRAIGHT is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received her B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience with a double minor in Philosophy and Biology at the University of Denver. Her research interests are primarily in political philosophy, business ethics, biomedical ethics, moral psychology, and the philosophy of technology. When she is not doing philosophy, she loves spending time with her husband, daughter, and son, ideally out in nature.

DOUGLAS B. RASMUSSEN is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, St. John’s University, NYC and Affiliated Senior Scholar with the Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University, Omaha, NE. He is coauthor (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) of the following works: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991): Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2005); The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics (2016); and The Realist Turn: Repositioning Liberalism (2020). He has written numerous essays in various philosophical journals and books and is past member of the executive council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

JAKUB BOŻYDAR WIŚNIEWSKI is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law, Administration, and Economics at the University of Wroclaw, as well as an affiliated scholar and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Poland. He holds an MA in philosophy from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in political economy from King’s College London. He is the author of The Economics of Law, Order, and Action: The Logic of Public Goods, Libertarian Quandaries, and The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty.