This is a historical post. In my last post, I discussed Scientific Realism vs. Positivism. The conclusion I drew was that, while both are useful points…
In Logan Chipkin’s interview of Stephan Kinsella (starting about here) Kinsella explains the Libertarian concept of “Original Appropriation.” Kinsella says that we will need a…
This is a historical post. Bear in mind that I was slowly coming to accept Popper-Deutsch epistemology. In my last post I started to discuss the…
Note – this was originally published with Quillette. Free speech is a value, not a right. Understanding this distinction sheds light on the various debates…
Suppose two people, John and Sue, are discussing politics. Sue makes a point to John about how “A democracy, like America, should base its Presidential…
This is a historical post. Science is the process of how we use reason to find patterns in reality and then to explain them in finite explanations of reality that allow us…
Note – this was originally published with The Libertarian Institute. Creationism has lost the argument in the public square. Any biologist working to understand life-related…
How do libertarians (and here I specifically mean the anarcho-capitalist variety) believe policing and court systems might work without a state? I had a chance…
This is a historical post. In my last post I considered Physicist John Barrow’s view of what science is: So we find that Barrow’s view of science is…
A long time ago I wrote an article called “Disagreements with Deutsch: The Afterlife.” It was a terrible article and, in my opinion, contains a…