•  64
    Communication and Human Good
    Social Philosophy Today 17 91-102. 2001.
    The invention of computers, and especially their communication capabilities is revolutionary in several ways. They show the paramount importance of communication in human life, as well as facilitating revolutionary improvements in virtually all areas of social life: business, the arts, agriculture, and others. They put in perspective the erroneous outlook of "materialism" -the idea that human well-being is a matter of accumulating material objects, with a corollary that we must be using up the m…Read more
  •  136
    Reply to Dworkin
    Social Philosophy and Policy 1 (1): 41. 1983.
    My main complaint about Dworkin's papers on equality was that he had not said much by way of arguing for it. His intriguing response to this request provides a good start, and I shall confine this brief, further comment to what he says on that basic subject. Space considerations, alas, require me to ignore the other parts of his discussion. Dworkin distinguishes what he calls the “abstract egalitarian thesis” from his particular version of equalitarianism, equality of resources. His strategy is …Read more
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    Morality and non-violence
    Philosophia 8 (2-3): 447-459. 1978.
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    Ayn Rand as Moral and Political Philosopher
    Reason Papers 23 96-100. 1998.
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    Rights and Utilitarianism
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 5 (n/a): 137-160. 1979.
    Few questions about utilitarianism have been more vexed than that of its relation to rights. It is commonplace to hold that there are nonutilitarian rights, rights not founded on considerations of utility. And it is even thought that the very notion of rights is inherently incapable of being significantly employed within the utilitarian framework. In the present paper, I wish to consider both of these matters. I propose to give reasons—mostly not really new—for rejecting the stronger, conceptual…Read more
  •  1
    God
    Reason Papers 22 109-119. 1997.