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The Libertarian Standard

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 8, 2010 @ 9:47 am (Austrian) Economics

There’s a new website and group blog in town, by a great group of radical Austro-Libertarians, including yours truly. It’s The Libertarian Standard. I’ve been pre-occupied with admin work for the site the past couple weeks, getting it set up and looking nice, but I’ll be getting around to blogging relatively soon. I’ll probably be [...]

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Liberty, Virtue, and the Autobot Way

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 8, 2009 @ 6:02 pm (Austrian) Economics

That was to be the subtitle for my chapter in Open Court‘s recent addition to their Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Transformers and Philosophy: More Than Meets the Mind. Alas, no subtitles made it into the book. I have received official permission to provide a pdf copy of my chapter, “Freedom Is the Right of [...]

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My JLS Atlas Shrugged Article, Finally!

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 12, 2009 @ 11:20 am Aristotelian Liberalism

The “final” issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies is finally available online, although it looks like there will be one more final issue for all the other accepted but unpublished articles. This is the Atlas Shrugged Symposium issue, the last issue edited by Roderick Long, and I’m proud to say it includes an article [...]

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Belated Inauguration for My New Website & Blog

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 26, 2009 @ 4:24 pm Blogging

This is coming a bit late, since I’ve already made a few posts (automated and not), but welcome to my new website with an integrated and self-hosted blog. I’ve switched to using WordPress as my publishing platform as you can probably tell. I’m still in the process of transferring content over and updating the website. [...]

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Oughtism and Its Cure

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 29, 2009 @ 2:06 pm Aristotelian Liberalism

I decided to rename my blog “Is-Ought GAP: The Cure for Oughtism,” simultaneously turning separate eristic jokes by Stephan Kinsella and another libertarian on their heads.1 The following are some excerpts from two sections of one chapter of Veatch’s For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory. Veatch calls the mentality he [...]

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The US Post Office has got to go

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 1, 2009 @ 3:42 pm Personal News

I got a package in today. For the second time in two weeks, the third time since we’ve lived in Nebraska, and the fourth time I can remember while living in an apartment, the postman did not even bother making a first attempt at delivering the package to my door. I managed to get to [...]

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Return of the Website

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 30, 2009 @ 7:08 pm Blogging

My website is back up and running, now on DreamHost. Time to play around with WordPress.

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Website Update

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 30, 2009 @ 8:36 am Blogging

My website will be down for a while – hopefully not more than a day or two – while I switch hosts from DirectNIC to Dreamhost. After the transfer, I’m looking to move my blog, and maybe my website too, to WordPress, on my own hosted domain. I’d like my blog and website to be [...]

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My dissertation is completed, approved and now online

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 21, 2009 @ 2:01 pm (Austrian) Economics

Well, I finally finished my dissertation and now it’s available online for anyone to read. I actually defended it on December 2nd. My committee approved it under the condition that I make some revisions, which is not an unusual occurrence. They mainly wanted me to flesh out and clarify some things in chapters five and [...]

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The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 18, 2008 @ 2:12 pm Humor

My results: Modern, Cool Nerd 52% Nerd, 52% Geek, 13% DorkFor The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.You scored better than half [...]

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