Who is the real father of modern philosophy?
I vote for Francis Bacon. The standard answer gives the honor to René Descartes.
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Interview: David N. Mayer on Thomas Jefferson
Dr. David Mayer on his lecture, “Thomas Jefferson and the Holy Cause of Freedom,” about Jefferson’s writings on the nature and importance of liberty. Part I Part II More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
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What I Have Learned about the History of Philosophy from My Students
Insights from my students collected over the years. Updated this semester. I offer you: “A Student History of Philosophy” (Being a compilation of student research, gently edited by Stephen Hicks, Rockford College). [pdf]
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An inspiring university points to the future
Atlas is not shrugging at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala.
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Interview: C. Bradley Thompson on Leo Strauss and the neo-conservatives
My two-part interview at CEE with Dr. C. Bradley Thompson about his forthcoming book Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, focusing on the early 20th-century political philosopher Leo Strauss’s influence on the founders of Neoconservativism. Part I Part II More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
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“Postmodernism Unpeeled” discussion with David Thompson
David Thompson is a critic and commentator with strong interests in pop culture and postmodernism. His interview with me based on my book Explaining Postmodernism is now posted at his site. Previous interviews I’ve done on postmodernism’s themes and roots were published in Navigator and New Individualist magazines. The following scholarly reviews of the book
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Pathologies of the mixed economy (or, How we got into this frackin’ mess)
Putting into one flowchart what I have learned from Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock. The flowchart is in spreadsheet format: the short version and the long version in Excel 2007 or in Excel 97-2003. Update: DJ Dates has a cool, scalable Google maps version
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Interview: Emily Chamlee-Wright on post-Katrina New Orleans
My ten-minute interview at CEE with Dr. Emily Chamlee-Wright on her research on entrepreneurship and the non-profit sector in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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