Philosophical articles

What is life? What is truth? Why did Gavin spend almost five years at the university? Maybe after reading a few of these essays you’ll begin to find the value of philosophy or at least waste a good deal of your afternoon when you should be filling out your TPS reports. Either way, it’s free.

• On Time (July 22, 2010)
• Top 100 Living Intellectuals (June 3, 2010)
• The Immorality of Achilles in Homer’s Iliad (March 31, 2010)
• Hegel: Property and Personality, 1821 (February 19, 2010)
• Gavin and Chomsky Discuss Self-Ownership (February 8, 2010)
• Nozick, Self-Ownership, and His Detractors: ?-1995 (February 3, 2010)
• William Ogilvie: Equality in Land Reform, 1782 (February 2, 2010)
• William Wollaston: Property and Truth, 1722 (extreme rough draft and notes) (February 2, 2010)
• On Human Nature and Enlightenment (January 25, 2010)
• Godwin, Property and Philosophical Anarchism (January 17, 2010)
• Kripke Contra Materialism (January 16, 2010)
• Plato and Aristotle on Private Property (Very Rough Draft) (January 12, 2010)
• On the Ethics of Product Endorsements (August 9, 2009)
• Chomsky’s Six Linguistic Doctrines (April 28, 2009)
• Derrida: Nutcase or Genius? (March 15, 2009)
• Schleiermacher contra Kant (October 10, 2008)
• Distinctions Between Marx and Bakunin (July 19, 2008)
• La Mettrie Contra Descartes (May 5, 2008)
• Can Moral Agents be Apolitical? (April 9, 2008)
• Notes on Nirvana (March 26, 2008)
• The Case For Socialism? (March 16, 2008)
• 2008 Resolution: History of Philosophy (February 29, 2008)
• Conversations with Chomsky (December 18, 2007)
• Interview With Leo Panitch (December 15, 2007)
• On the Necessity of Word Precision (November 18, 2007)