Research

Books:

Libertarianism: For and Against (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).

This is a co-authored, debate-format book in which I write AGAINST libertarianism (and for "democratic liberalism"); my co-author Tibor Machan writes in favor of libertarianism. 

• Selected as a CHOICE magazine “2006 Outstanding Academic Title” by the American Library Association. 
• Subject of Liberty Fund conference (June 18-20, 2009) devoted exclusively to discussing this book.

Click here to download a sample chapter from this book.

Academic Articles:

“Critical Survey: Recent Texts in the Philosophy of Religion,” forthcoming in Teaching Philosophy (June 2010)

“Libertarianism,” forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Political Science (SAGE Publications, 2010).

“The Persecutor’s Wager,” The Philosophical Review 116:1-50 (2007).

“Do Vague Objections Really Scotch Pascal’s Wager?”, Philosophical Studies 112:279-290 (2003).

Book Reviews:

Review of Jan Narveson, This Is Ethical Theory.  Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews  (http://ndpr.nd.edu): June 9, 2010.

Review of Jeff Jordan, Pascal’s Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God. Mind (2007): 117:1082-1086

Popular Press:

“Libertarianism Should Strike a Balance,” The Shreveport Times (1/28/07), p. 5I.

“Libertarianism in one easy lesson: an open debate,” The Philosophers’ Magazine (3rd Quarter, 2003), pp. 46-49. I was participant in a printed debate on libertarianism; in my contribution I argued AGAINST liberatarianism.