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Tibor R. Machan

Liberty's Most Prolific Philosopher

Machan@Chapman.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Undergraduate and Graduate Education

  • Claremont McKenna College, 1962-1965, BA (philosophy)
  • New York University, 1965-1966, MA (philosophy)
  • U. of California—Santa Barbara, 1966-1971, Ph.D. (philosophy)

 

Experience

  • Assistant Professor, California State—Bakersfield, 1970-72
  • Associate Professor, State University of New York—Fredonia, 1972-82; Tenured 1978
  • Visiting Associate Professor (Political Science), University of California—Santa Barbara, Spring 1979
  • Academic Programs Director, Reason Foundation, 1979-84
  • Visiting Associate Professor (Economics), University of California—Santa Barbara, Winter & Spring 1979-84
  • Visiting Associate Professor (Philosophy), State University of New York—Fredonia, Fall 1981, 1982
  • Visiting Professor, Franklin College (Switzerland), Fall 1983
  • Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor, University of San Diego, 1984-85
  • Visiting Professor, Franklin College (Switzerland), 1985-86; 1997
  • Professor (Philosophy), Auburn University, 1986-1999
  • Professor (2/3 appointment, Philosophy; 1/3 appointment, Marketing and Transportation, College of Business), Fall 1987-June 1989
  • Graduate Faculty Status in College of Business (1987-1989).
  • Tenured at Auburn University in 1988
  • Professor Emeritus, 1999.
  • Visiting Professor of Philosophy, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York (1992-93)
  • Senior John M. Olin Professor, Adelphi University (Fall, 1994)
  • Distinguished Fellow & Freedom Communications Professor of Business Ethics and Free
  • Enterprise, Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship
  • Business Ethics, Argyros School of Business & Economics,
  • Chapman University (1997-2004)
  • R. C. Hoiles Professor of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise (2004- )

 

Nonacademic Posts

  • Various Jobs in Drafting, School Bus Driving, Welding, etc. 1955-70
  • Carrier Air Conditioning (draftsman), 1957-58
  • US Air Force (Air Police, Civil Engineering), 1958-62
  • Koch Foundation 1970 & 1972; Institute for Humane Studies 1980
  • Educational Programs Director, The Reason Foundation, 1979-84
  • Director, Liberty Fund Summer Seminars, 1979, 1980, 1981 & 1982.
  • Director, Liberty Fund Conferences (9)
  • Jacob Javits Graduate Fellowship Board, U. S. Department of Education, 1985-1990
  • Senior Fellow, The Reason Foundation, 1984-87
  • Advisor, Freedom Communications, Inc., 1997-
  • Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 1997-
  • Series Editor, Philosophic Reflections on a Free Society, Hoover Institution Press 1999-03
  • President, American Society for Value Inquiry 2002-
  • Free Lance Essayist: The Humanist, National Review, Free Inquiry, Liberty, World & I, This World, Barron’s, Reason, The American Spectator, The Freeman, Jobs & Capital, The New American Review.
  • Syndicated Columnist: The Orange County Register, 1967-present;
  • Free lance columnist: The New York Times, Los Angeles Time, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Houston Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Asia Times, Journal of Commerce, Washington Times, The Boston Globe, The Arizona Republic

 

Awards, Honors, Fellowships, and Editorships

 

Awards

  • Freedom Foundation Award for Rights and Regulation, 1983
  • Outstanding Academic Book, Rights and Regulation in Choice, 1984

 

Scholarships

  • Claremont McKenna College Scholarship, 1963
  • California State College Scholarship, 1964
  • Ebell of Los Angeles Scholarship 1965

 

Fellowships

  • United California Bank Fellow, 1965
  • Institute for Human Studies Fellow, 1968
  • State University of New York Summer Fellow, 1973, 1975, 1978
  • Liberty Fund Fellow, 1975
  • National Fellow, Hoover Institution, 1975-76
  • Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation, 1981-1987
  • Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, 1997-present

 

Editorships

  • Editor, Reason Magazine, 1972
  • Senior Editor, Reason Magazine, 1973-1989
  • Editor, Reason Papers, 1974-present
  • Member, Board of Consultants, Public Affairs Quarterly 1989-91;97-99.
  • Member, Advisory Board, The Dumont Institute for Public Policy Research  (Dumont, NJ)

 

Grants

  • Earhart Foundation, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1991
  • John M. Olin Foundation Grant, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988
  • Progress Foundation Grant, 1985
  • Host, “For the Love of Work:  Karl Marx” (Television documentary funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1986-87).
  • Bradley Foundation (of Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Grant, 1988

 

Summer Lectureships

  • AB Timbro, Sweden (Stockholm; 1986)
  • Atlas Foundation, United Kingdom (Argentina, Brazil; 1989)
  • IES Europe, Paris (Various European Locations; 1989-2004)
  • Univ. of Aix-en-Provence, France (1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002)
  • Franklin College, Switzerland (1993, 1996 & 1997)
  • TOC Seminar (Oberlin, OH; 1994, UCLA, 2002; UBC, 2004)
  • Intercollegiate Studies Institute (Indianapolis; 1995)

 Organizations

  • American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society
  • American Philosophical Association
  • Mount Pelerin Society (Member since 1980)
  • American Society for Value Inquiry (President, 2003)

 

Single Author Books

  • The Promise of Liberty: A Non-Utopian Vision (Lexington Books, 2008).
  • Ayn Rand, Ihr Werk (Grevenbroich, DE: Lichtschlag Medien und Werbung KGm, 2008)
  • The Georgia Lectures (Berlin, DE: Friedrich Neuman Foundation, 2007)
  • The Right Road to Radical Freedom (Imprint Academic, 2007)
  • The Morality of Business: A Profession for Wealthcare  (New York: Springer, 2007)
  • Libertarianism Defended (Ashgate, 2006)
  • Libertarianism, For and Against, w/C. Duncan (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005; f/c)
  • The Man Without a Hobby (Hamilton Books, 2004)
  • Objectivity: Recovering Determinate Reality (London, UK: Ashgate, 2004)
  • Neither Left nor Right, Selected Columns (Hoover Institution Press, 2004)
  • Putting Humans First, Why We Are Nature’s Favorites (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004)
  • The Liberty Option (Imprint Academic, 2003)
  • The Passion for Liberty (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
  • The Right to Private Property (Hoover Institution Pres, 2002)
  • A Primer on Business Ethics w/J. Chesher (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)
  • Initiative: Human Agency and Society (Hoover Institution Press, 2000)
  • Ayn Rand (Peter Lang, 2000)
  • The Business of Commerce w/J. Chesher (Hoover Institution Press, 1999)
  • Classical Individualism (Routledge, 1998)
  • Generosity; Virtue in the Civil Society (Cato Institute, 1998)
  • Why Freedom Must be First (Hoover Institution Press, 1997)
  • A Primer on Ethics (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997)
  • Private Rights & Public Illusions (Transaction, 1995).
  • The Virtue of Liberty (Foundation for Economic Education, 1994).
  • Liberalisme, Ethique et Valuers Morales (Institut Euro 92, 1993).
  • Capitalism and Individualism: Reframing the Argument for the Free Society (St. Martin's Publishing Co. & Harvester Wheatsheaf Books, 1990).
  • A Dialogue Partly on Political Liberty [w/J. N. Nelson] (University Press of American, 1990)
  • Liberty and Culture: Essays on the Idea of a Free Society (Prometheus Books, 1989).
  • Individuals and Their Rights (Open Court, 1989).
  • Marxism: A Bourgeois Critique (MCB University Press Limited, 1988).
  • The Moral Case for the Free Market Economy (The Edwin Mellen Press,
  • 1989, rev. [English] version of Freedom Philosophy).
  • Freedom Philosophy (AB Timbro, 1987).
  • Introduction to Philosophical Inquiries (Allyn & Bacon, 1977;  University Press of America, 1985).
  • Human Rights and Human Liberties (Nelson-Hall, 1975).
  • The Pseudo-Science of B.F. Skinner (Arlington House, 1973).

 

Edited Books         

  • Anarchism/Minarchism (w/R. Long) (Ashgate, 2007)
  • Ayn Rand at 100 (New Delhi, India: Pragun Publication, 2006)
  • Liberty & Justice (Hoover Institution Press, 2002)
  • Liberty & R&D (Hoover Institution Press, 2002)
  • Liberty & Equality (Hoover Institution Press, 2002)
  • Liberty & Democracy (Hoover Institution Press, 2002)
  • Liberty and Hard Cases (Hoover Institution Press, 2001)
  • Individual Rights Reconsidered (Hoover Institution Press, 2001)
  • The Commons: Its Tragedy and Other Follies (Hoover Institution Press, 2001)
  • Morality & Work (Hoover Institution Press, 2000)   
  • Education in a Free Society (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2000)
  • Business Ethics in the Global Market (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1999)
  • Political Philosophy: Essential Selections [w/A. Skoble] (Prentice Hall, 1998)
  • Liberty for the 21st Century [w/D. B. Rasmussen] (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995)
  • Commerce and Morality (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988).
  • The Main Debate: Communism vs. Capitalism (Random House, 1987).
  • Recent Work in Philosophy [w/K. G. Lucey] (Rowman & Allanheld, 1983).
  • Rights and Regulation [with M. Bruce Johnson] (Ballinger, 1983).
  • The Libertarian Reader (Rowman & Littlefield, 1982).
  • The Libertarian Alternative (Nelson-Hall, 1974)

 

Invited Essays/Chapters in Books (Originals & Reprints)

  • “Capitalism and Freedom,” in D. James, ed., Outside Looking In (NY: Harper & Row, 1972).
  • “On the Possibility of Objectivity and Moral Determinants in Scientific Change,” in Karen D. Knorr, et al., eds., Determinants and Controls of Scientific Development (Boston, MA: D. Reidel, 1975).
  • “Naturalism, Values and the Social Sciences,” in W. Leinfellner, et al., eds., Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle and Critical Rationalism (Kirchberg-an-Wechsel, Austria: Austrian Wittgenstein Congress, 1978).
  • “Reason, Morality, and the Free Society,” in R. L. Cunningham, ed., Liberty and the Rule of Law (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1979).
  • “Human Rights,” in S. J. Fodero, ed., The Academic American Encyclopedia (Baltimore, MD:  Arete, 1980).
  • “Human Rights, Political Change and Feudalism,” in A. Rosenbaum, ed., Philosophies of Human Rights (Greenwich, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981).
  • “The Petty Tyrannies of Government Regulation,” in T. Machan and M. Bruce Johnson, eds., Rights & Regulation (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1983), pp. 259-88.
  • “Should Business Be Regulated?” in Tom Regan, ed., Just Business (NY: Random House, 1983).
  • “Pollution and Political Theory,” in Tom Regan, ed., Earthbound (NY: Random House, 1984).
  • “Gewirth and the Supportive State,” with D. Den Uyl in E. Regis, Jr., ed., Gewirth's Ethical Rationalism (Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984).
  • “Socialism as Reactionism,” in Kurt Leube and Albert Zlabinger, eds., The Political Economy of Freedom: Essays in Honor of F. A. Hayek (Munchen, Germany: Philosophia Verlag, 1984), pp. 47-60.
  • “Property Rights and the Decent Society,” in J. K. Roth and R. C. Whittemore, eds., Ideology and American Experience (Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute Press, 1986), pp. 121-153.
  • “Rights and Myths at the Workplace,” in Gertrude Ezorsky, ed., Moral Rights in the Workplace (Albany, NY:  SUNY Press, 1987), pp. 45-50.
  • “The Classical Egoist Basis of Capitalism,” in Tibor Machan, ed., The Main Debate (New York:  Random House, 1987), pp. 139-161.
  • “L'etica del mercato (The Ethics of the Market),” in E. Sogno, ed., I. Liberalismi Vincenti (Torino, Italy: Centro Studi Manlio Brosio, 1985).
  • “Ethics and Political Economy,” in Tibor Machan, ed., Commerce and Morality (Totowa, NJ:  Rowman & Littlefield, 1988).
  • “Government Regulation,” in Tibor Machan, ed., Commerce and Morality (Totowa, NJ:  Rowman & Littlefield, 1988).
  • “Economic Analysis and the Pursuit of Liberty,” in Michael A. Walker, ed., Freedom, democracy and economic welfare (Vancouver, BC: The Fraser Institute, 1988)
  • “The Uses of Ethics,” in Tibor Machan, ed., Commerce and Morality (Totowa, NJ:  Rowman & Littlefield, 1988).
  • “Ethics vs. Coercion: Morality or Just Values?” in Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., et al., ed., Man, Economy and Liberty (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1988).
  • “The Morality of Markets,” in Thomas R. Dye, ed., The Political Legitimacy of Markets and Governments (New York: JAI Press, 1989).
  • “A Virtually Perfect Document: Rights & the U.S. Constitution,” in C. B. Gray, ed., Philosophical Reflections on the United States Constitution (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989).
  • “On Teaching Business Ethics,” (Washington, D.C.: Heritage Lecture #253, May 1, 1990)
  • “What We Should Teach the Eastern Europeans,” in A World Without Walls (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1990)
  • “Rescuing Victims - From Social Theory,” in D. Sank & D. I. Caplan, eds., To Be A Victim (New York: Plenum Press, 1991)
  • “How to Understand Eastern European Developments,” in Robert McGee, ed., The Market Solution to Economic Development in Eastern Europe (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992).
  • “Welfare State is Grossly Misnamed,” in Robert McGee, ed., Converting to a Market Economy in Eastern Europe (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992)
  • “What We Should Teach the Eastern Europeans,” in Robert McGee, ed., Recent Changes in the Economies of Eastern Europe (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992)
  • “The Nonexistence of Basic Welfare Rights,” in James Sterba, ed., Justice: Alternative Political Perspectives (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1992)
  • “Teaching Business Ethics in an Academic Environment,” in Robert W. McGee, ed., Business Ethics and Common Sense (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1992)
  • “The Nonexistence of Basic Welfare Rights,” in Steven Jay Gold, Moral Controversies: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publ. Co., 1993)
  • “Do Animals Have Rights?” in William H. Shaw, ed., Social and Personal Ethics (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993).
  • “Should All Persons Perform National Service?” in Mark Spangler, ed., Cliches of Political Control (Irvington on Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1994)
  • “Must the Government Guarantee a Job for Everyone?” in Mark Spangler, ed., Cliches of Political Control (Irvington on Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1994)
  • “To Solve Problems, do we Need Government Regulations? in Mark Spangler, ed., Cliches of Political Control (Irvington on Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1994)
  • “Capitalism, Socialism and Ecology,” in Hans Sennholz, ed., Man and Nature (Irvington on Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1994)
  • “Justice, Self and Natural Rights,” in James Sterba, et al., Morality and Social Justice: Alternative Views (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995)
  • “A Defence of Property Rights and Capitalism,” in Brenda Almond, ed., Introducing Applied Ethics (Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1995)
  • “Do Animals Have Rights?” in Jeffrey Olen and Vincent Barry, eds., Applying Ethics (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1996)
  • “The Non-Existence of Welfare Rights,” T. R. Machan & Douglas Rasmussen, eds., Liberty for the 21st Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995)
  • “Business Ethics in a Free Society,” T. R. Machan & Douglas Rasmussen, eds., Liberty for the 21st Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995)
  • “Feminism Harms Women's Perceptions of Men,” Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints, in Wekesser, Carol, ed., San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1995.
  • “The Non-Existence of Welfare Rights,” Lawrence Hinman, ed., Contemporary Moral Issues (Upper Saddle Rovert, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996)
  • “Capitalism,” in J. J. Chambliss, ed., Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 1996)     
  • “Libertarianism,” Philosophy of Law, An Encyclopedia, C. B. Gray, ed. (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1996).
  • “Coping with Smoking,” in the Newsweek Education Program, More Controversial Issues (New York: NewsSource Unit, 1996)
  • “Egoism, Psychological Egoism and Ethical Egoism,”  P. H. Werhane & R. F. Freedman, eds., The Encyclopedia of Business Ethics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996)
  • “Libertarianism & Business Ethics,” op. cit., The Encyclopedia of Business Ethics.
  • “Interview on Egoism,” in L. M. Hinman, Ethics: A Plural Approach (Harcourt Brace College, 1997). “The Ethics of Advertising,” Wittgenstein, Applied Ethics  (Kirchberg-an-Wechsel, Austria: Austrian Wittgenstein Congress, 1998)
  • “Human Rights, Workers’ Rights, and the ‘Right’ to Occupational Safety,” in D. M. Adams & E. L. Maim, eds., Business Ethics for the 21st Century (Mt. View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1998).
  • “Business Ethics in a Free Society,” Blackwell Companion to Business Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999).
  • “The Injustices of Affirmative Action,” Robert W. McGee, ed., Commentaries on Law & Public Policy (South Orange, NJ: Dumont Institute, 1999)
  • “Buchanan is Dead Wrong: ‘Economic Patriotism’ Translates to Old-Fashioned Protectionism,” Donald S.
  • Will, et al., eds., The Global Citizen (Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Publishing, 1999).
  • “Human Rights, Workers’ Rights, and the ‘Right' to Occupational Safety” in W. Michael Hoffman,
  • Robert Frederick, and Mark Schwartz, eds., Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate
  • Morality (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001)
    “Morality and Smoking,” David Benetar, ed., Ethics for Everyday  (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001).
  • “Libertarianism and Justice,” in John Arthur, ed., Morality and Moral Controversies 8th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002).
  • “Kapitalisme via Wetenschap en Moraal,” Ashwin de Wolf and Stefan van Glabeek, eds., 
  • De markt voor Vrijheid (Holland: Libertarisch Centrum Netherland, 2001).  
  • “Dimensions of Generosity,” in Eugene Heath, ed., Morality & the Market (NY: McGraw Hill, 2002).
  • “A Brief Defense of Free Will,” John Burr and Milton Goldinger, eds., Philosophy and Contemporary  Issues (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2004), pp. 33-39.
  • “Globalization Does Not Harm Developing Nations’ Cultures,” in Berna Miller, James D. Torr, eds., Developing nations: Current Controversies (San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, 2003).
  • “B. F. Skinner,” in Larry Arnhart, ed., The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (New York: Macmillan, 2004, f/c).
  • “Do Animals Have Rights?” in S. M. Cahn, ed., Philosophy for the 21st Century (NY: Oxford UP, 2003)
  • “Sidney Hook’s Prescience,” in Matthew J. Cotter, ed., Sidney Hook Reconsidered (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004).
  • “History of Political Philosophy,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 2005, f/c).
  • “Property,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 2005, f/c).
  • “Libertarian Movement and Unbelief,” in The Encyclopedia of Unbelief (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005 (forthcoming).
  • “Can There be Stable and Lasting Principles?” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 32  No. 1/2 (2005).
  • “Business Ethics in a Free Society,” in Parth J. Shah, Morality of Markets (New Delhi: Academic Foundation & Centre for Civil Society, 2004).
  •  “The Petty Tyranny of Government Regulation” (ibid)
  • “No Taxation, With or Without Representation,” in Robert McGee, ed., Taxation and Public Finance in Transition and Developing Economies (New York: Spring, 2005).
  • “Human Rights, Workers’ Rights and the ‘Right’ to Occupational Safety,” in Fritz Allhoff and Anand Vaidya, eds., Business Ethics (London, UK: Sage Publ. Ltd., 2005)
  • “The Whole Truth or Only Some of the Truth?” (ibid)
  • “What is Morally Right with Insider Trading?” (ibid)
  • “Egoism, Psychological Egoism and Ethical Egoism,”  P. H. Werhane & R. F. Freedman, eds., The Encyclopedia of Management, 2rd Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2005)
  • “Can Commerce Inspire?” in Nicholas Capaldi, ed., Business & Religion: A Clash of Civilizations (M&M Scrivener Press, 2005)  
  • “Rights, Liberation and Interests: Is there a Sound Case for Animal Rights or Liberation” in Hon-Lam Li & Anthony Yeung, eds., New Essays in Applied Ethics: Animal Rights, Personhood, and the Ethics of Killing (New York: Palgrave & Macmillan, 2006)
  • “Reason in Economics versus Ethics,” in Edward W. Younkins, ed., Philosophers of Capitalism, Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).

  • “Environmentalism Humanized,” in Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, ed., Business and Professional Ethics Anthology (Toronto: Broadview Press in 2007).

Selected Articles

  • “Education and the Philosophy of Knowledge,” Educational Theory, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1970, pp. 253-268.

  • “Kuhn's Impossibility Proof and the Moral Element in Scientific Explanations,” Theory and Decision, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1974, pp. 355-374.

  • “Back to Being Reasonable,” with Marty L. Zupan, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 142, No. 3, 1975, pp. 307-310.

  • “Prima Facie v. Natural (Human) Rights,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1976, pp. 119-131.

  • “Was Rachels' Doctor Practicing Egoism?” Philosophia, Vol. 8, (1978), pp. 21-424.

  • “Another Look at Logical Possibility,” Personalist, Vol. 51, (1970), pp. 246-249.

  • “Human Rights:  Some Points of Clarification,” Journal of Critical Analysis, Vol. 5, (1973), pp. 30-38.

  • “Law, Justice and Natural Rights,” Western Ontario Law Review, 14 (1975), pp. 119-130.

  • “Human Dignity and the Law,” DePaul Law Review, 26, (1977), pp. 119-126.

  • “Belief Within the Thought of Pierre Bayle,” Folia Humanistica, Vol. 16, (1978), pp. 608-619, 687-695.

  • “Some Normative Considerations of Deregulation,” Journal of Social, Political and  Economic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1979,  pp. 363-377.

  • “Recent Work in Ethical Egoism,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 16, (1979), pp. 1-15.

  • “C. S. Peirce and Absolute Truth,” Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society, Vol. 16, (1980), pp. 153-161.

  • “Essentialism Sans Inner Natures,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 10, (1980), pp. 195-200.

  • “Rational Choice and Public Affairs,” Theory & Decision, Vol. 12, (1980), pp.  229-258.

  • “Some Recent Work in Human Rights Theory,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 17 (1980), pp. 103-115.

  • “Wronging Rights,” Policy Review, No. 17, 1981, pp. 37-58.

  • “Some Philosophical Assumptions of National Labor Policy,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 4 (1981), pp. 67-160.

  • “The Non-Rational Domain and the Limits of Economic Analysis: Comment,” Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 47 (1981), pp. 1123-1127.

  • “Epistemology and Moral Knowledge,” Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 36 (1982), pp. 23-49.

  • “The Politics of Medicinal Anarchism,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 12 (1982), pp. 183-189.

  • “A Reconsideration of Natural Rights Theory,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 19 (1982), pp. 61-72.

  • “Individualism & the Problem of Political Authority,” The Monist, Vol. 66 (1983), pp. 500-516.

  • “Ethics, Professionalism and Public Service,” Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 2 (November 1983), pp. 83-89.

  • “Ethics and the Regulation of Professional Ethics,” Philosophia, Vol. 13 (1983), pp. 337-348.

  • “Recent Work on the Concept of Happiness,” with Den Uyl, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 21 (1984), pp. 1-31.

  • “Some Ontological Considerations of Skinnerism,” Cogito, Vol. 3 (1985), pp. 42-72.

  • “Another Look at Naturalist Ethics and Politics,” Cogito, Vol. 3 (1985), pp. 75-114.

  • “Some Doubts About Animal Rights,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 19 (1985), pp. 73-75.

  • “Is There A Right to Be Wrong?” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 2, (1985), pp. 105-09.

  • “Aiding A Suicide Attempt,” Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 4 (Winter 1986), pp. 73-74.

  • “The Virtue of Freedom in Capitalism,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 3 (1986), pp. 49-58.

  • “Metaphysics, Epistemology and Natural Law Theory,” American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 31 (1986), pp. 65-77.

  • “Recent Work in Business Ethics,” with Den Uyl, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 24 (April 1987), pp. 107-124.

  • “Advertising: The Whole Or Only Some of the Truth,” Public Affairs Quarterly,  Vol. 2 (1987), pp. 59-71.

  • “Towards A Theory of Natural Individual Human Rights,” New Scholasticism, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Winter, 1987), pp. 33-78.

  • “Corporate Commerce vs. Government Regulation: The State & Occupational Health  and Safety,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 2 (Fall 1987), pp. 791-823.

  • “Terrorism and Objective Moral Principles,” International Journal of World Peace, Vol. IV, No. (Oct-Dec. 1987), pp. 31-40.

  • “Are Teleological Rights Theories Utilitarian?” Cato Journal, Vol. 7 (Spring/Summer 1987), pp. 255-58.

  • “The Unavoidability of Natural Law and Rights,” Modern Age (Winter, 1987), pp. 38-44.

  • “A New Individualist Defense of the Free Market,” International Review of Economics& Ethics, Vol. 2 (1987), pp. 27-39.

  • “Should Cigarette Advertising Be Banned?” with Den Uyl, Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 2 (1988), pp. 19-30.

  • “Harman's 'Refutation' of Flourishing Ethics,” Thomist, Vol. 49 (1985), pp. 387-391.

  • “Moral Myths and Basic Positive Rights,” Tulane Studies in  Philosophy, Vol. 33 (1985), pp. 35-41.

  • “A Neglected Argument Against Theism,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. II (1988), pp. 48-52.

  • “The Morality of the Market Process,” Florida Policy Review (Summer 1988), pp. 27-34.

  • “The Fantasy of Glasnost,” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 16 (1989), pp. 46-53.

  • “Are Human Rights Real?” Review Journal of Philosophy & Social Science, Vol. 13 (1988), pp. 1-22.

  • “Individual versus Subjective Values,” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 16 (1989), pp. 49-59.

  • “Is Natural Law Ethics Obsolete?” Vera Lex (Vol. 9, No. 1: 1989)

  • “Rhetoric, Freedom and Capitalism,” Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 6 (1989)

  • “Natural Rights Liberalism,” Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 4 (Spring 1990), pp. 253-65.

  • “La Etica de la Privatizacion,” Estudios Publicos, No. 37 (Verano 1990), pp. 139-45.

  • “Politics and Generosity,” Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 7 (1990), pp. 61-73.

  • “Exploring Extreme Violence (Torture)” The Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 21 (Spring 1991), pp. 92-7.

  • “Sobre los derechos humanos,” Libertas, Vol. 8 (May 1991), pp. 39-114.

  • “Do Animals Have Rights?” Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 5 (April 1991), pp. 163-173.

  • “Teaching Business Ethics in an Academic Environment of Mistrust,” Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business, Vol. 27 (March 1991), pp. 59-65.    

  • “Pollution, Collectivism and Capitalism,” Journal des Economists et des Estudes Humaines, Vol. 2 (March 1991), pp. 83-102.  

  • “Classical Liberalism and the Market Economy,” Spekuliantas, Vol. 3 (Winter 1992), pp. 32-41.

  • “The Status of the Victim in Social Theory,” Filozofia Istrazivaja, Vol. 41 (1991), pp. 489-97.

  • “Politics and Ideology: Do Ideas Matter?” The Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business, Vol. 28 (June 1992), pp. 159-167.

  • “How to Understand Eastern European Developments,” Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 6 (1992), pp. 24-34.

  • “Evidence of Necessary Existence,” Objectivity, Vol. 1 (Fall, 1992), pp. 31-62.

  • “Between Parents and Children,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 23 (Winter, 1992), pp. 16-22.

  • “The Right to Private Property,” Critical Review, Vol. 6 (1992), pp. 81-90.

  • “The Right to Privacy vs. Uniformitarianism,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 24 (1993), pp. 76-84.

  • “Applied Ethics and Free Will,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 10 (1993), pp. 59-72.

  • “Liberalisme et valeurs morales,” Liberte, economique et progres social, No. 67 (March 1993), pp. 19-30.

  • “Some Reflections on Richard Rorty's Philosophy,” Metaphilosophy, Vol. 24 (January/April 1993), pp. 123-135.

  • “Environmentalism Humanized,” Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 7 (April 1993), pp. 131-147.

  • “Individual Rights versus the Community, the Case of Environment “ International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 20 (1993), pp. 54-65.

  • “Ayn Rand versus Karl Marx,” International Journal of Social Economics Vol. 21, Nos. 2/3/4 (1994)

  • “What Remains of Communism Today?” International Journal of Social Economics Vol. 21, Nos. 2/3/4 (1994)

  • “Individualism, Morality and the Free Market,” Journal des Economists et des Estudes

  • Humaines, Vol. 4 (Juin/Septembre 1993), pp. 363-376.

  • “Professional Responsibilities of Corporate Managers,” Business and Professional EthicsJournal, Vol. 13 (Fall, 1994), pp. 57-69.

  • “Human Rights Reaffirmed,” Philosophy, Vol. 69 (1994), pp. 479-489.

  • “Posner’s Rortyite (Pragmatic) Jurisprudence,” American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 40 (1995), pp. 1-15.

  • “A Revision on the Doctrine of Disability of Mind,” Persona y Derecho, Vol. 33 (May 1995).

  • “Individualism and Classical Liberalism,” Res Publica, Vol. 1 (1995), pp. 3-23.

  • “Reason in Economics versus Ethics,” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 22, No. 7 (1995), pp. 19-37.

  • “Individualism and Political Dialogue,” Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Sciences and the Humanities, Vol. 46 (1996), pp. 9-22.

  • “Indefatigable Alchemist: Richard Rorty’s Radical Pragmatism,” The American Scholar (Summer 1996)

  • “What is Morally Right with Insider Trading?” Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 10 (April 1996), pp.135-142. 

  • “Communication from One Feminist,” Journal of Social Philosophy (Spring 1997)

  • “Does Libertarianism Imply a Welfare State,” Res Publica Vol. III, No. 2 (Autumn 1997) 

  • “Why it Appears that Objective Ethical Claims Are Subjective,” Philosophia, Vol. 26, Nos. 1-4 (1997) pp. 1-23.

  • “For Individual Rights,” Modern Age (Spring 1997).

  • “Two Paths to Liberalism,” Partisan Review (Spring 1997).

  • “Blocked Exchanges Revisited,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol 14, No. 3 (1997), pp.249-262.

  • “The Normative Basis of Economic Science,” Economic Affairs, Vol. 18 (June 1998), pp. 43-46.

  • “Immigrating into a free society,” J. of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (September 1998), pp. 199-204.

  • “The Ethics of Advertising,” Proceedings of the Wittgenstein Symposium, 1998 (p. 49)

  • “Moral Values and Economic Science,” Chapman University Economic & Business Review (June 1999), pp. 30-32.

  • “The Metaphysics, Ethics and Politics of Environmentalism,” Interdisciplinary Environmental Review Vol. I, No. 1 (1999), pp. 23-32.

  • “Revisiting The Tragedy of the Commons,” Hoover Digest (June 1999)

  • “A Primer on Military Ethics,” Philosophy Today (September 1999).

  • “Entrepreneurship and Ethics,” International J. of Social Economics Vol. 26 (5&6) (1999), pp. 596-608

  • “Defending a Free Society,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 33, No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 451-455.

  • “Why Agreement Is Not Enough,” Philosophia, Vol. 28, Nos. 1-2 (2000).

  • “Egoism and Benevolence,” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 281-89.

  • “Introduction: Liberty and Hard Cases,” Symposium in Journal des Economists et des Estudes Humaines, Vol. 10 (December 2000), pp. 469-74.

  • “Reflections in the Right to Private Property, “Journal des Economists et des Estudes Humaines, Vol 11 (March 2000).

  • “Sterba on Machan’s ‘Concession’,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 241-3.

  • “[On] A Hobbesian Defense of Anarchy,” (a review of Jan Lester’s Escape from Leviathan), The Review of Politics (Summer 2001), pp. 612-24.

  • “Liberalism and Atomistic Individualism,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 34 (Sept. 2000), pp. 227-47.

  • “An Element of Business Ethics: Bribes and Kickbacks,” Chapman U. Economic & Business Review (Summer 2000).

  • “Another Look at Abortion,” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 2001), pp. 449-56.

  • “Teaching Ayn Rand's version of Ethical Egoism,” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2001).

  • “The promise of the E-conomy for Freedom: Cautions from the Broader Perspective of Scientism,” The Journal of Private Enterprise Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring 2002).

  • “Why human beings may use animals,” Journal of Value Inquiry Vol. 36 (2002), pp. 9-14

  • “Anarchism and Minarchism, A Rapprochement,” Journal des Economists et des Estudes Humaines Vol. 14, No. 4 (December 2002), pp. 569-588.

  • “Why Globalization Is Good—Some Reflections on the Ethics of Globalization,” Global Business & Economics Review, Volume 3, Number 2 (December 2001), pp. 186-199.

  • “Free Will Reconsidered,” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Vol. 4, Number 1 (Fall 2002). “On Baars’ Psychologizing of Skinnerism,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2003), pp. 29-33.

  • “Government Regulation versus The Free Society,” Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 22, No.1 (2004), pp. 77-83.

  • “Secularism and Capitalism, vs. Islam: Western Way Will Lead to a Better Life,” Free Inquiry, April/May 2004. pp. 1-3.

  • “Liberty versus Morality: The Free Society’s Troublesome Solution,” Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 20, (Fall 2004): 55-71.

  • “The Pitfalls of Public Spheres,” Chapman Economic & Business Review (December 2004), pp. 34-36.

  • “Aristotle and the Moral Status of Business,” Journal of Value Inquiry Vol. 38. No. 2 (2004): 217-23. “Liberty & Morality,” Think, Issue 9 (Spring 2005), 87-89.

  • “The Liberty Option,” The Sociologist No. 2 (Spring 2005), pp. 42-47.

  • “Is Free Will Real?” Think, Issue 12 (Spring 2006), 61-63.

  • “An Essay on Jobs in a Free Country,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy Vol. XX, No. II (March, 2006)

  • “Rand and Choice,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, 7, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 257–73.

  • “Business Ethics in a New Key,” Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. XXI, No. 2 (Spring 2006), 1-33

  • “Libertarian Justice,” Hoover Digest (No. 4, Fall, 2006): 220-224.

  • “Rights, Values, Regulation and Health Care,” Journal of Value Inquiry (Vol. 40, Nos. 2–3 (2006), p. 155.

  • “Defining Government, Begging the Question: An Answer to Block's Anarchism and Minarchism; No Rapprochement Possible,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 21, no. 1 (Winter 2007):89-98.

  • “Leo Strauss, Neo-Conservative?” Philosophy Now (January/February, 2007): 35-37.

  • “Good God, Bad Deeds?” Think, Winter 2007:55-57.

  • “In Praise of Gridlock,” Hoover Digest (No. 2, Spring 2007): 73-75.

  • “Good God, Bad Deeds?” Think, Winter 2007:55-57.

  • “Ethics and Its Controversial Assumptions,” Vera Lex, Volume 8, Numbers 1 & 2, Winter 2007: 27-50.

  • “Freely Given,” Hoover Digest (No. 3, Summer 2007): 194-96.

  • “Ethics and Its Controversial Assumptions,” Vera Lex, Volume 8, Numbers 1 & 2, Winter 2007: 27-50.            

  • “Rights, Values, Regulation and Health Care,” Journal of Value Inquiry (Vol. 40, Nos. 2–3 (2006), p. 155..

  • “Freely Given,” Hoover Digest (No. 3, Summer 2007): 194-96.

  • “The Right to Liberty versus the Right To Welfare: A Reply to Sterba,” Reason Papers 29  (Fall 2007): 177-84.

  • “Free Markets and Morality,” Economics, Management, and Financial Markets 2 (2007)     

  • “Altruism (Stakeholder Theory) Versus Business Ethics,” Proceedings of the International Association for Business & Society (2007)

  • “Heretical Essay on Wittgenstein’s Meta-Ethics,” Analysis and Metaphysics (2007), 6: 413-430.

  • “A Critique of Positive Rights,” in Thomas Cushman, ed., International Handbook on Human Rights (London, UK: Routledge, 2009)

  • “Why Moral Judgments Can be Objective,” Social Philosophy & Policy (2008), 25:100-125.

  • “Rand on Hume on Is-Ought,” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 9, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 245-51.

  • “Self-Ownership and the Lockean Proviso," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 38, No. 3, (September 2008).

  • “Stakeholder vs. Shareholder Theory of the Ethics of Corporate Management,” International Journal of Economics and Business Research, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009
     “Milton Friedman & the Human Good,” Libertarian Papers 1, 27 (2009) ONLINE AT: libertarianpapers.org.

  • “What Rights Do We Have?” Journal of Value Inquiry, 43, No. 4 (December 2009)

  • “Morality and Capitalism—Friends or Foes?” International Journal of Economics and Business Research, Vol. X, No. X

  • “Has Capitalism Been Invalidated?” Global Business & Economics Review, Vol. 11, Nos. 3/4, 2009:225-33.

  • “Did Socrates Know Nothing?" Think 25, 9 (Summer 2010)

  • “Contrarian Reflections on Advertising,” Think (f/c)               

  • “Taxation: The ethics of its avoidance or dodging,” Journal of Business Ethics (f/c)

  • “Protectionism, Its Ethical Aspects,” European Journal of Management and Public Policy (forthcoming)

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