Daniel J. Hicks, PhD

In this series of posts, I’m applying Debra Satz’ account of noxious markets to a specific aspect of commercialized science, the funding effect. In the first post, I summarized Satz’ account. In this post, I explain the funding effect. [Read More]

In this post, I’ll be discussing one of the common arguments against (moral) vegetarianism. (Moral vegetarianism is the view that vegetarianism is morally required, or that eating meat is morally impermissible. I’ll just use “vegetarianism” here.) I’ve encountered it every single time I’ve taught an argument for vegetarianism; at a... [Read More]

In this post, I’ll summarize Stanford political philosopher Debra Satz’ account of noxious markets. (Satz 2010; unsourced page number citations will be to this book.) This will serve as preparatory work for a post applying her account to commercialized science (probably, specifically, the “funder effect”). [Read More]

In his essay “Two Philosophers Skeptical of Negative Liberty” in Libertarianism Defended, Tibor Machan comes close to a significant insight concerning the fundamental disagreements about human nature that motivate the high-level disagreements between (right-)libertarians, on the one hand, and egalitarian liberals and (democratic) socialists, on the other hand. In this... [Read More]

(Going through my folder of notes and paper ideas, I came across the following, which I wrote last June.) [Read More]