Jan Narveson
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Jan Narveson's Degrees
- PhD Philosophy University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jan Narveson is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. An anarcho-capitalist and contractarian, Narveson's ideology is deeply influenced by the thought of Robert Nozick and David Gauthier.
Jan Narveson's Published Works
Published Works
- Moral problems of population. (1973) (106)
- On a Case for Animal Rights (1987) (63)
- Pacifism: A Philosophical Analysis (1965) (57)
- We Don’t Owe Them a Thing!: A Tough-Minded but Soft-Hearted View of Aid to the Faraway Needy (2003) (50)
- Libertarianism vs. Marxism: Reflections on G. A. Cohen‘s Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality (1998) (30)
- Welfare and Wealth, Poverty and Justice in Today’s World (2004) (28)
- Promising, Expecting, and Utility (1971) (25)
- Rawls on equal distribution of wealth (1978) (23)
- Three Principles for Managing Risk in the Public Interest (1995) (19)
- Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice: Essays on Moral and Political Philosophy (2002) (19)
- Collective Responsibility (1948) (14)
- PROPERTY AND RIGHTS (2010) (12)
- Egalitarianism : Partial, counterproductive, and baseless (1997) (10)
- Is World Poverty a Moral Problem for the Wealthy? (2004) (10)
- Moral Philosophy and Suicide (1986) (10)
- Satisficing and Maximizing: Maxificing: Life on a Budget; or, If You Would Maximize, Then Satisfice! (2004) (10)
- The "Invisible Hand" (2003) (9)
- Semantics, future generations, and the abortion problem: comments on a fallacious case against the morality of abortion. (1975) (8)
- ON HONOURING OUR PARENTS (1987) (8)
- The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice (2006) (7)
- Collective Rights? (1991) (7)
- Cohen’s Rescue (2010) (6)
- Equality vs. Liberty: Advantage, Liberty (1984) (6)
- Social Contract: The Last Word in Moral Theories (2013) (5)
- Reasons and Decisions (2013) (5)
- The How and Why of Universalizability (1985) (5)
- Present Payments, Past Wrongs: Correcting Loose Talk about Nozick and Rectification (2009) (5)
- Is There a Duty to Die (2000) (4)
- The Relevance of Decision Theory to Ethical Theory (2010) (3)
- Ayn Rand as Moral & Political Philosopher (1998) (3)
- Comment on Levy's ‘Forced to be free? Increasing patient autonomy by constraining it’ (2013) (3)
- Jerry Z. Muller, ed. , Conservatism—An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present . Reviewed by (1997) (3)
- Animal Rights (1976) (3)
- Aesthetics, Charity, Utility, and Distributive Justice (1972) (3)
- The case for free market environmentalism (1995) (3)
- Rights and Utilitarianism (1979) (3)
- Comment on Tilo Wesche (2013) (3)
- Discussion-Review: Evolutionary Biology, Altruism, and Moral theory (2000) (3)
- Liberalism and public education (1988) (3)
- LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: HARMONIOUS OR IRRECONCILABLE? (1986) (2)
- Justice in Health Care (2007) (2)
- The medical minimum: zero. (2011) (2)
- ‘Property-Owning Democracy’? ‘Liberal Socialism’? Or Just Plain Capitalism? (2017) (2)
- Existence and Particularity (1965) (2)
- Reply to Dworkin (1983) (2)
- A Case Against Animal Rights (1987) (2)
- Social Contract: The Only Game in Town (2016) (2)
- Pacifism—Fifty Years Later (2013) (2)
- Humanism is for humans (1993) (2)
- Reiman on Labor, Value, and the Difference Principle (2014) (2)
- Book Reviews (2004) (2)
- Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights . Reviewed by (1985) (2)
- Anarchy, State and Utopica, by Robert Nozick (1977) (1)
- Utilitarianism and formalism (1965) (1)
- Liberty, games, and contracts (2006) (1)
- WHEN, IF EVER, DO WE AGGREGATE? AND WHY? (2008) (1)
- Equality, Universality, and Impartiality—How They Work and Why They Matter (2014) (1)
- Michael Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press1982. Pp. xviii + 191. Current list price in Canada: ca. $50 hardcover; $16 paper. (1987) (1)
- Liberal-Conservative: The Real Controversy (2000) (1)
- Reasons for Actions. By Richard Norman. Oxford, Basil Blackwell; Toronto: Copp Clark 1971. Pp. x, 181. £2.25 ($7.95). (1972) (1)
- Liberalism : new essays on liberal themes (2001) (1)
- Getting on the Road to Peace: A Modest Proposal (1985) (1)
- Reason, Value and Desire (1984) (1)
- Liberty, Property, and Welfare Rights: Brettschneider’s Argument (2013) (1)
- Wrongness, Wisdom and Wilderness (1998) (1)
- Gewirth's Reason and Morality – A Study in the Hazards of Universalizability in Ethics (1980) (1)
- Morality and non-violence (1978) (1)
- AIDS in the Third World: How, if at all, Do We Help? (2004) (1)
- Intentional Behaviour and Social Science (1976) (1)
- The Right to be Old and the Right to Have Young: Some Conundrums About Aging Populations (1982) (1)
- David B. Wong, Moral Relativity. Berkeley: University of California Press1984. Pp. xii + 248. (1987) (1)
- Kerrey and Calley: What Is the Moral Difference? (2002) (0)
- Sterba on Liberty and Welfarism (2015) (0)
- Tinkering and Abortion (1978) (0)
- Philosophy (2008) (0)
- Response to Christman (2011) (0)
- Book Reviews : Law, Legislation and Liberty, Vol. II: The Mirage of Social Justice. BY FRIED-RICH A. HAYEK. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977, Pp. xiv + 196. $10.00 (1980) (0)
- On Defense by Nuclear Deterrence (1986) (0)
- The Ethics of the New Economy ed. by Leo Groarke (review) (2014) (0)
- Population and Having Children Now (2017) (0)
- Book Review:On the Track of Reason: Essays in Honor of Kai Nielsen Rodger Beehler, David Copp, Bela Szabados (1993) (0)
- McDonald and McDougal, Pride and Gain, and Justice: Comment on a Criticism of Gauthier (1988) (0)
- Discussion of Helga Varden’s Review and Alistair MacLeod’s Comments (2011) (0)
- Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society . By John Stuart Mill. Edited by J. M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1969. Pp. cxxxix, 578. $20.00. (1970) (0)
- Alan Gewirth's foundationalism and the well-being state (1997) (0)
- An overlooked aspect of the fairness-utility controversy (1974) (0)
- The Hateful and the Obscene: Studies in the Limits of Free Expression (review) (2006) (0)
- Symposium: Overpopulation and contraception. Introduction (1994) (0)
- The Evaluation of Ethical Theories . By Charles B. Daniels. Halifax, Dalhousie University Press (Philosophy in Canada, Monograph Series, #1 of Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy) 1975. pp. 87 + viii. $3.00 (1980) (0)
- Duncan-Jones on moral error (1967) (0)
- Silverstein on egoism and universalizability (1969) (0)
- A Theory of Reasons for Action . By David A. J. Richards. Oxford and Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1971. xiv, 370. $15.50. (1973) (0)
- Egoism and Altruism (2012) (0)
- The Free Society (2007) (0)
- David Gauthier, "Morals By Agreement." Reviewed by (1987) (0)
- Freedom from Past Injustices Nahshon Perez Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. (2014) (0)
- Timo Airaksinen and Martin A. Bertman, eds. , Hobbes: War among Nations . Reviewed by (1991) (0)
- God and Evil , Edited by Nelson Pike (Prentice-Hall “Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy Series,” Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: 1964) pp. viii + 114. $2.45. (1965) (0)
- A dissenting viewpoint: the overpopulation scare (1994) (0)
- Book Reviews (2012) (0)
- Waldron on Private Property (1990) (0)
- Pornography: The Other Side F. M. Christensen New York: Praeger, 1990, x + 188 pp. US$19.95. (1996) (0)
- Jeffrey Olen , Moral Freedom . Reviewed by (1990) (0)
- Books in Review : REASON AND MORALITY by Alan Gewirth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. 393. $20.00 hardcover. (1979) (0)
- The Moral Foundation of Rights (2014) (0)
- Toward a Liberal Theory of Ideology-A Quasi-marxian Exploration (2005) (0)
- Liberalism, Citizenship and Autonomy . Edited by David Milligan and William Watts Miller. Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, 1992. 228p. $59.95. (1993) (0)
- Notes On New Books (1946) (0)
- Morals and Marx (1983) (0)
- Self-Love and Self-Respect (1982) (0)
- Punishment: A Philosophical and Criminological Inquiry By Philip Bean Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1981, viii + 201 pp. £12.50 (1983) (0)
- J.R. Lucas , On Justice . Reviewed by (1982) (0)
- D. Weinstein , Equal Freedom and Utility - Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism . Reviewed by (1999) (0)
- Poverty, Markets, Justice: Why the Market Is the Only Cure for Poverty (2013) (0)
- Sterba's program of philosophical reconciliation (1999) (0)
- Consumers Rights in the Laissez-Faire Economy: How Much Caveat for the Emptor? (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Peace and Revolution: The Moral Crisis of American Pacifism. Gunther Lewy (1990) (0)
- Pacifism: A Comment on Beehler's Note (1972) (0)
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