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.

• Hugo Grotius and Property: 1625 (December 15, 2010)
• Wittgenstein on How to Write (December 14, 2010)
• On Chivalry and the Male-Female Relationship (December 12, 2010)
• De Beauvoir on the Ethics of Ambiguity (November 28, 2010)
• Is Assassination Ever Justified? (November 24, 2010)
• Stephen Hawking and God (November 18, 2010)
• On the Art of Worldly Wisdom (November 16, 2010)
• Ayn Rand’s Philosophic Revolution (November 9, 2010)
• Heisenberg on the Language of Physics (November 9, 2010)
• Logical Positivism: Is Metaphysics Meaningless? (November 2, 2010)
• Prodding the Materialist: A Dialogue Between Antiphon and Lucretius (October 12, 2010)
• A Mereology of Holes and Men (October 7, 2010)
• Mary the Materialist: Right and Wrong (September 28, 2010)
• 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)