June 2005

Against Idealism: Ayn Rand and Johannes Daubert vs. Husserl’s Ideas I

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 29, 2005 @ 6:59 am Ayn Rand

Last semester I took an independent study/readings course on formal ontology and phenomenology. I read some of the work of Edmund Husserl, Adolf Reinach, and Barry Smith. There is, I think, a lot to like about phenomenology, realist phenomenology at least. In attempting to clarify my own objections to Husserl’s transcendental turn, the notorious transcendental [...]

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News

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 29, 2005 @ 6:32 am Personal News

Well, I’ve been back from the IHS Social Change Workshop for a few days. I had a great time, talking to a lot of bright and friendly people interested in promoting liberty. That’s my favorite part of IHS seminars actually, talking informally to all of the other participants. The lectures and presentations by the faculty [...]

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Off to Virginia

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 17, 2005 @ 7:57 pm Personal News

Well, I’m off to Charlottesville, VA…the University of Virginia, to be exact. I’m attending the Institute for Humane Studies Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students. I’ll be presenting my paper entitled “Life, Death, and Harm: A Neo-Aristotelian Account,” which you can find online here. I’ll be back on Friday, the 24th.

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More empirical evidence against the democratic peace thesis

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 15, 2005 @ 9:33 pm (Austrian) Economics

Last semester I took a political science seminar on international conflict. I wanted to learn more about international conflict. I blogged about it here, here, and here. Unfortunately, the class was oriented primarily around mainstream (i.e., empirical and quantitative) political science, so I didn’t learn as much as I would have liked. Everything I learned [...]

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Mises University

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 11, 2005 @ 2:01 pm Personal News

I have great news! For me at least. I’ve been awarded a scholarship to attend Mises University 2005 this summer. I’ve been wanting to go to this annual seminar for a few years now and am very much looking forward to it. If anyone reads this who has been to a previous MU or will [...]

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On Reinach and Apriorism in Relation to Positive and Natural Law

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 4, 2005 @ 10:32 am Featured Posts

In my previous post, I critiqued Reinach’s a priori theory of right for his attempt to ground it in extra-moral claims and obligations. I questioned the status of extra-moral claims and obligations. And I put forth an alternative phenomenological description of the act of promising that locates it within the domain of ethics. I argued [...]

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On Reinach, the Act of Promising, and Moral Obligation

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 4, 2005 @ 10:13 am Featured Posts

In the post below, and in the next post, are my tentative thoughts on Adolf Reinach’s Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law: In The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law (Aletheia: An International Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 3, 1983) Adolf Reinach develops an apriori theory of right in which features of the civil law such [...]

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