Stephen Hicks

Michael Strong and Magatte Wade to speak at Rockford College

Business Ethics /

On Wednesday, November 3, Michael Strong and Magatte Ward will speak at Rockford College. Michael Strong’s talk is titled “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.” Strong is the co-founder (with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market) and Chief Visionary Officer of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., a non-profit […]

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My review of Gibson’s Ethics and Business now online

1 Comment / Business Ethics /

My four-page review of Kevin Gibson’s Ethics and Business: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2007) was published in the Spring 2010 issue of Teaching Philosophy. Here now is a PDF of the review. From my introduction: “Gibson’s approach is middle-of-the-road in the content of his beliefs about business and ethics, so this is a mainstream

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Kindle version of Explaining Postmodernism published

History of Philosophy, Philosophy, Politics /

The Kindle version of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault is now available. The book had a gratifying two hardcover printings and eight softcover printings from 2004-2009, and I am finalizing an expanded edition to be published in hardcover in the spring of 2011. Here’s the book description: “Tracing postmodernism from

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Sir Ken Robinson on factory schools

1 Comment / Education, Philosophy /

A stimulating, 11:40-minute animated talk by Ken Robinson. I have qualms about some of Robinson’s intellectual-history-of-education claims, but his portrait of mainstream contemporary education (especially the repulsive cop-out that is the ADHD “epidemic”) and his prescriptions for reform are bang-on accurate. [Which reminds me of my extended series on the philosophy and history of education.]

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Entrepreneurship, individualism, and collectivism

2 Comments / Business Ethics, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Politics /

A pair of striking excerpts from a discussion at CNN Money between motivational speaker Ken Blanchard and Scott Shane, professor of entrepreneurship at Case Western. Here is Scott Shane on whether the government should encourage entrepreneurship or craft policies to divert resources to high-growth companies: “From a societal point of view, if you have a

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