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Reason Papers was founded in 1974, and was edited by Tibor R. Machan from issues 1 through 25. Beginning with Issue 26 (Summer 2003), it is now edited by Aeon J. Skoble. There have also been four special-topic issues with guest editors (noted below). Full-article PDF archives (two-issue moving wall) are hyperlinked (underlined) below.   If the article you are looking for (except from the two most recent issues) doesn't come up please report the error.   To order the current and most recent previous issue, click "ordering information" on your left.  These as well will have one or two pieces on-line as PDF files.  Special thanks to Stephan Kinsella and David Veksler for their hard work to make this PDF archive possible.

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Issue No. 29 - Fall 2007

• Editorial

Articles

• Morality and the Foundations of Practical Reason —Brian Zamulinski
• A Unified Theory of Intrinsic Value —Stephen Kershnar
• Relativism and Progress —Howard Darmstadter
• Are You in a Dilemma? What Disturbing Choices Say about Our Character—Jason Swedene
• Respect for Persons and the Authority of Morality—Matt Zwolinski
• Lomasky on Practical Reason: Personal Value and Metavalues—Shane Courtland
• Political Obligations and the Duties of Friends—Nkiruka Ahiauzu
• An Economic, Political, and Philosophical Analysis of Externalities—Brian P. Simpson
• War, Reason, and Libertarians —Angelo M. Codevilla
• Plumb-Line Libertarianism: A Critique of Hoppe—Walter Block

Articles

• Liberty and Welfare —James P. Sterba
• The Right to Liberty versus the Right to Welfare: A Reply to Sterba—Tibor R. Machan

Review Essay

• Review Essay: Amy E. White’s Virtually Obscene: The Case for an Uncensored Internet — James Stacey Taylor

Book Review

• Isaiah Berlin’s Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought —Jordon Barkalow

Issue No. 28 - Spring 2006

• Editorial

Codevilla Symposium

• Victory: Means and End - Irfan Khawaja
• A Florentine in Baghdad: Codevilla on the War on Terror - Roderick T. Long
• Angelo Codevilla and William Tecumseh Sherman - Spengler

AAPSS Symposium on War and Liberty

• War and Liberty - Aeon J. Skoble
• The Justice and Prudence of War: Toward a Libertarian Analysis - Roderick T. Long (NOTE: this article is a rough 2003 draft mistakenly published here instead of the finished 2006 version; the correct, final version was published here)
• Angelo Codevilla and William Tecumseh Sherman - Spengler

Articles

• How Libertarians Ought to Think about the U.S. Civil War - Tim Sandefur
• Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government (Part 2of 2) - Walter Block

Review Essay

• Stephen R.C. Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: A Discussion - Steven M. Sanders

Book Reviews

• Hilary Putnam’s The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays - Roderick T. Long
• Roger Kimball’s The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art - Brenda Molife

Issue No. 27 - Fall 2004 (Full Issue)

• Editorial

Articles

• Mere Libertarianism: Blending Hayek and Rothbard - Daniel Klein
• The Moral Argument for a Policy of Assassination - Stephen Kershnar
• Does Ethical Subjectivism Pose a Challenge to Classical Liberalism? - Niclas Beggren
• Property Rights vs. Utilitarianism: Two Views of Ethics - Robert McGee
• Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Unjust Government (part 1 of 2) - Walter Block

Discussions

• The Law of People and Cosmopolitan Critique - Aysel Dogan

Book Reviews

• Khaled El Fadl's The Place of Tolerance in Islam, reviewed by Irfan Khawaja
• Christopher Hitchens' A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq, reviewed by Irfan Khawaja
• Georges Lieberts' Nietzsche and Music, reviewed by Mark T. Conard

Issue No. 26 - Summer 2003 (Full Issue)

• Editorial regarding change in editor

Articles

• Money Can Buy Happiness - Tara Smith
• The Ambiguity of Kant’s Concept of Happiness -   Thomas Marshall
• Popper on “Social Engineering”: A Classical Liberal View -   Tom Avery

Discussion Notes

• Libertarianism vs. Objectivism: A Response to Peter Schwartz -   Walter Block

Review Essays

• Tara Smith’s Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality - Irfan Khawaja

Book Reviews

• Randy Cohen's The Good, the Bad & the Difference: How to Tell Right From Wrong in Everyday Situations, reviewed by Steven Sanders
• Charlotte Twight's Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans, reviewed by Irfan Khawaja
• Richard Schacht's Nietzsche’s Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche’s Prelude to Philosophy’s Future, reviewed by Mark T. Conard

Issue No. 25 - Fall 2000 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Nonrelativty and Subjectivity of Aesthetic Claims - Imtiaz Moosa
• On Economic Rent: Michael Jordan, The Reichmann Brothers, and Jim Smith, Day-laborer: whom do we get to Tax, and Why? - Jan Narveson
• Some Ethical Aspects of Antidumping Laws - Robert W. McGee

Discussion Notes

• The Case of David Friedman - Robert P. Murphy

Review Essay

• Whose Liberalism? Which Individualism? - Irfan Khawaja
• Sex Skeptics: Speech is Free but Thought Remains in Chains - Elizabeth Brake

Book Review

• Larry Arnhart’s Darwinian Natural Right - Steven Wall

Issue No. 24 - Fall 1999 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Debunking Popper: A Critique of Karl Popper’s Critical Rationalism - Nicholas Dykes
• Is Virtue Only a Means to Happiness? An Analysis of Virtue and Happiness in Ayn Rand’s Writings - Neera K. Badhwar
• Foundations, Philosophy, and the Location of Socrates’ Feet - Nino Langiulli

Discussion Notes

• Dispensing with (Men of) Reason - Stephen Hetherington
• Ethics and the Wittgenstein Approach - Eyal Moses

Review Essay

• Zoon Eluetherion: Man as an Individualist Animal - Irfan Khawaja
• Attending to Mind Itself - Roger E. Bissell

Book Reviews

• Ann Hartles’ Self Knowledge in the Age of Theory - John C. McCarthy
• Robert Kane’s The Significance of Free Will - Roger E. Bissell
• Bouwsma’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, 1965 - 1975 - Tim Black
• Stephen R.L. Clark’s Animals and Their Moral Standing - Jody L Graham

Issue No. 23 - Fall 1998 (Full Issue)

Articles

• On the Fit between Egoism and Rights - Eric Mack
• Resolving Tension in Aristotle’s Ethic: The Balance Between Naturalism and Responsibility - David E. W. Fenner
• The Irrationality of the Extended Order: The Fatal Conceit of F.A. Hayek - Larry J Schrest

Special Forum: Rand & Philosophy

• A Philosopher for the new Millennium? - Fred D. Miller, Jr.
• On Rand as a Philosopher - Douglas J. Den Uyl
• Rand and Philosophy (and Capitalism) - Douglas B. Rasmussen
• Ayn Rand’s Contribution to Philosophy - Neera K. Badhwar
• What is living in the Philosophy of Ayn Rand? - Lester H. Hunt
• Rand and Objectivity - David Kelley
• Rand Revisited - J. Roger Lee
• Ayn Rand’s Philosophical Significance - John Hospers
• Ayn Rand as Moral Political Philosopher - Jan Narveson

Discussion Notes

• Kamhi and Torres on Meaning in Ayn Rand’s Esthetics - Roger E. Bissell
• Addressing Some Critics - Jan Narveson

Review Essay

• How Stephen Pinker’s Mind Works - Roger E . Bissell
• A Renaissance in Rand Scholarship - Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Book Reviews

• Gerald Gaus’ Justificatory Liberalism - N. Scott Arnold
• David Fernandez - Morea’s American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas - Alexander Dunlop

Issue No. 22 - Fall 1997 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Nietzsche: The Myth and Its Method - Fred Seddon
• Reply to Critics: Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical – A Work in Progress - Chris Matthew Sciabarra
• Land and Human Endowments - Damon J. Gross

Symposium on Bioethics

• Introduction - Robert M. Sade, M.D.
• A Feminist Interpretation of Engelhardt’s Bioethics: More a Moral Friend Than a Moral Stranger - Rosemarie Tong
• Concepts of Health and Disease: Comments on Chapter 5 of Engelhardt’s The Foundations of Bioethics, 2^nd Edition - James G. Lennox
• The Moral Foundations of Health Services Reform - Robert M. Sade, M.D.
• Engelhardt’s Foundations - Tom Beauchamps
• The Foundations of Bioethics: Liberty and Life with Moral Diversity - H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Discussion Notes

• God - Jan Narveson
• Answer to Professor Narveson’s ‘God’ - Fr. Robert A. Sirico
• Narveson’s Liberation Epistemology - Mark Turiano

Review Essays

• Pluralism about Truth: Crispin Wight’s Truth and Objectivity - Kevin Kennedy
• Strange New World: Gottlieb Florshultz’s Swedenborg and Kant (and six other books on Kant) - Gregory R. Johnson

Book Reviews

• Fred D. Miller’s Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics - Randell R. Curren
• Philip Mirowski’s Natural Images in Economic Thought - John C. Moorhouse
• Susan Haack’s Evidence and Inquiry - Wallace Matson
• Ian Watt’s Myths of Modern Individualism - Stephen Cox
• James VI and I: Political Writings, Johann Sommerville, ed - Thomas J. Radcliffe
• The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza - Mark T. Conard
• Margaret Moore’s Foundations of Liberalism - Eyal Mozes
• James T. Cushing’s Quantum Mechanics - Laurence I. Gould
• Lenn Goodman’s God of Abraham - Eyal Mozes
• Edward Keynes’ Liberty, Prosperity, and Privacy - Howard Hood

Issue No. 21 - Fall 1996 (Full Issue)

Special Issue on Thoreau
Guest Editor: Kelley Dean Jolley

• Introduction - Tibor R. Machan
• Preface - Kelley Dean Jolley

Articles

• Wildness, Language, and Solitude - Crispin Sartwell
• Is forgiveness possible? The concrete cases of Thoreau and Rushdie (on)(writing) the unforgivable - Rupert Read
• Walden: Philosophy and the Knowledge of Humankind - Kelly Dean Jolley

Discussion Notes

• When Avoiding Scholarship is the Academic Thing To Do: Mary Midgely’s Misinterpretation of Ayn Rand - Robert L. Campbell

Review Essay

• Smith, Moral Rights and Political Freedom - Irfan Khawaja

Book Reviews

• Review of Julia Kristeva’s Nations without Nationalism - Ronald Hamowy
• Review of John Christman’s The Myth of Property - Jan Narveson
• Dialectical Objectivism? A Review of Chris Sciabarra’s Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical - Roger E. Bissell
• Review of Mary Lefkowitz’s Not Out of Africa - Aeon James Skoble
• Hans-Hermanne Hoppe’s Austrian Philosophy - Stephen Yates
• Review of Murray N. Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought - Parth Shah
• Review of Paul Christopher’s The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction to Legal and Moral Issues - William J. Corliss
• Review of Nicholas Rescher’s Luck: The brilliant randomness of everyday life - Thomas J. Radcliffe

Issue No. 20 - Fall 1995 (Full Issue)

• Dedication - The Editors

Articles

• Theory and Autonomy - Ann Hartle
• Toward a Liberal Theory of Ideology – A Quasi – Marxian exploration - Jan Narveson
• Ayn Rand on Units, Essences, and the Intrinsic - Steven Yates
• Liberalism in Prewar Japan: Origins, Evaluation and Demise - Mary L. Hanneman
• Interdependent Decision making, Game Theory and Conformity - Kathleen Touchstone
• Some Simple Problems with Simplicity - Laurie Calhoun

Review Essays & Reviews

• Reclaiming the Mainstream, Individualistic Feminist Rediscovered - Claire Morgan
• The Unplanned Society: Poland During and After Communism - Ryszard Legutko
• Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace - Gregory R. Johnson
• The Philosophy of Childhood - Kelly Dean Jolley
• Expectations and the meaning of Institutions: Essays in Economics by Ludwig Lachmann - T. Franklin Harris, Jr.
• A Professor’s Duties - J.R. Chesher
• No Harm: Ethical Principles for a Free Market - N. Stephan Kinsella
• Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It - N. Stephan Kinsella

Issue No. 19, Fall 1994 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Wittgenstein and Thoreau (and Cavell): The Ordinary Weltanschaung - Kelley Dean Jolley
• Liberalism and the Moral Significance of Individualism: A Deweyan View - H. G. Callaway
• Nietzschean Individualism and Liberal Theory - Bruce Detweiler
• The Radical Feminist Attack on Reason - Steven Mandelker
• Habermas, Lyotard, and Political Discourse - Paul Fairfield

Discussions

• On Kelley on Kant - Fred Seddon
• Response to Seddon - David Kelley
• A 231 Word Refutation of Churchland’s Vision - Laurie Calhoun
• The Non - Sequitur of Value Relativism: A Critique of John Gray’s "Post-Liberalism" - Gregory R. Johnson
• Are Functionalist Accounts of Goodness Relative? - David E. W. Fenner

Review Essays

• How Not to Eliminate Discrimination - Antony Flew
• In Search of Liberal Sociology - Steven Horwitz
• A New Look at the Anthropic Principle - Marie George & Warren Murray
• If You’re So Rich--The Economic Approach to Epistemology - Alexander Tabarrok

Book Reviews

• Stephen Holmes’ The Anatomy of Antiliberalism - Scott Boykin
• Jonathan Jacobs’ Being True to the World - Aeon J. Skoble
• Andrew B. Schmookler’s The Illusion of Choice - Christopher Lingle
• David Gordon’s Resurrecting Marx - Peter Boettke
• Theodore Becker’s Quantum Politics - Ingemar Nordin
• The New Science of Fuzzy Logic - David E. Walker

Issue No. 18 - Fall 1993 (Full Issue)

Special Issue on Ethics and Political Philosophy
Guest Editor: Fred D. Miller. Jr.

• Acknowledgments - Fred D. Miller Jr.

Symposium: Feminist Philosophy Reconsidered

• Feminism and Resentment - Christina Hoff Sommers
• Feminist Theory Reconfigured - Patrice Di Quinzio
• Epistemological Reflections of an Old Feminist - Susan Haack
• Who Knows? What Can They Know? and When? - Lynn Hankinson Nelson
• Criticizing the Feminist Critique of Objectivity - E.R. Klein

Symposium: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order by Douglass B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl

• Introduction - Fred D. Miller Jr.
• Aristotelian ethics and Natural Rights: A Critique - Martin P. Golding
• Does Liberalism Need Natural Rights? - Russel Hittinger
• Rasmussen and Den Uyl on Natural Rights - Eric Mack
• Commendations and Queries re Liberty and Nature - Henry Veatch
• Natural Ends and Natural Rights - Jeffrey Paul
• Reply to Critics - Douglass B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl

Articles

• Aristotle and Anarchism - David Keyt
• Justice and Rights to Health Care - Kenneth F.T. Cust
• Liberal Egalitarianism, Basic Rights, and Free Market Capitalism - Daniel Shapiro

Review Essay

• Susan Moller Okin’s Justice, Gender and the Family - Karen I. Vaugh

Issue No. 17 - Summer 1992 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Rawls and Envy - George Walsh
• Richard Epstein and the Theory of Strict Liability in Tort Law - Tomas Fay
• Libertarian Theory, Customary Communal Ownership and Environmental Protection - David Lea
• Estoppel: A New Justification for Individual Rights - N. Stephan Kinsella

Discussion Notes

• Machan’s Moral Foundations - Paul Gaffney
• Deriving Rights from Egoism: Machan vs. Rand - Eyal Mozes
• Reply to My Critics - Tibor R. Machan
• Another Caricature of Libertarianism - Aeon J. Skoble

Review Essays

• Philosophy as Dialogue. (Charles Griswold’s Self Knowledge in Plato’s Phaedrus) - Jacob Howland
• Natural Right and Liberalism (Douglas Rasmuessen and Douglas Den Uyl’s Liberty and Nature) - Irfan Khawaja
• Without Sense or Reference (J.G. Merquior’s From Prague to Paris) - Gregory R. Johnson
• Attention - Mongers (Ernest Gellner;’s The Pschoanalytic Movement) - J.G. Merquior

Book Reviews

• Douglas J. Den Uyl’s The Virtue of Prudence - David Norton
• John Casey’s Pagan Virtue - Kelley Dean Jolley
• Tibor Machan’s Capitalism and Individualism - John D. McCallie
• Gerard Elfstrom’s Moral Issues and Multinational Corporations - Douglas J. Den Uyl
• Michael Luntley’s The Meaning of Socialism - Aeon J. Skoble
• Adam Przeworski’s The State and the Economy Under Capitalism - Mark Thornton

Issue No. 16 - Fall 1991 (Full Issue)

Rethinking Foundationalism: Metaphilosophical Essays
Guest editors: Gregory R. Johnson and Glenn A Magee

• Preface - Gregory R. Johnson and Glenn A Magee

Articles

• Founding Philosophy - Stanley Rosen
• Philosophy without Foundations - G.B. Madison
• Phenomenonlogy and the Foundationalism Debate - John J. Drummond
• Foundations, Rationality, and Intellectual Responsibility: A Pragmatic Perspective - Sandra B. Rosenthal
• Deconstructing Foundationalism and the Question of Philosophy as a Systematic Science - William Maker
• Hegel’s Remedy for the Impasse of Contemporary Philosophy - Richard Dien Winfield
• Self-Referential Arguments in Philosophy - Steven Yates
• Evidence and Justification - David Kelley
• Systematic Pluralism and the Foundationalism Controversy - Walter Watson

Discussion Notes

• Game Theory and the Virtues: The New and Improved Narrowly Compliant Disposition - Grant R. Brown
• Et Tu Quoque? Rationalism Reconsidered - Paul T. Sagal

Review Essays & Reviews

• David L. Norton’s Democracy and Moral Development: A Politics of Virtue - Mark Turiano
• Michael D. Bayles’ Procedural Justice - Clifton Perry

Issue No. 15 - Summer 1990 (Full Issue)

Essays to Commemorate the 250^th anniversary of the Completion of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature
Guest Editor: Stuart Warner

Articles

• Abbreviations for David Hume's Works Used Throughout This [Issue]
• Hume on the Origin and Evolution of Religious and Philosophical Consequences - Donald W. Livingston
• The Virtue of Political Skepticism - James T. King
• Hume’s Account of Property - Nicholas Capaldi
• David Hume on the Public Interest - Stuart D. Warner
• Spinoza and Hume on Individuals - Douglas Den Uyl and Lee Rice
• Natural Rights, Philosophical Realism, and Hume’s Theory of Common Life - Douglas B. Rasmussen

Discussion Notes

• In Defense of Moore’s "Proof of an External World" - John O. Nelson
• Race Isn’t Merit - Eugene Sapadin

Review Essays & Reviews

• William G. Scott and David K. Hart’s Organizational Values in America - David L. Norton
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism - Daniel Shapiro

Issue No. 14 - Spring 1989 (Full Issue)

Special Lomasky Symposium Issue

Articles

• Anarchical Snares: A Reading of Locke’s Second Treatise - Stuart D. Warner
• Radical Social Criticism - N. Scott Arnold
• Ayn Rand’s Critique of Ideology - Chris M. Sciabarra
• Will Preserving American Women’s Procreative Freedom Conflict with Achieving Equality Between the Sexes? - George Schedler
• Responsibility and requirement of Mens Rea - Thomas A. Fay

Lomasky Symposium

• Against Lomaskyan Welfare Rights - Tibor R. Machan
• Against Agent - Neutral Value - Eric Mack
• Loren Lomasky’s Derivation of Basic Rights - Christopher W. Morris
• The Right to Project Pursuit and the Human Telos - Douglas B. Rasmussen
• Response to Four Critics - Loren E. Lomasky

Discussion Notes

• Rorty’s Foundationalism - Steven Yates
• In My Opinion, That’s Your Opinion: Is Rorty a Foundationalist? - William H. Davis
• The Skeptic’s Dilemma: A Reply to Davis - Steven Yates

Review Essays

• Ethel Spector’s Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters - Mary K. Norton
• Anthony Arblaster’s The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism - Ralph Raico
• Jan Narveson’s The Libertarian Idea - David Gordon

Book Reviews

• Peter Huber’s Liability - The Legal Revolution and its Consequence - Clifton Perry
• Benjamin Hart’s Faith and Freedom - Delos B. McKown
• Hannes Gissurarson’s Hayek’s Conservative Liberalism - Parth Shah

Issue No. 13  - Spring 1988 (Full Issue)

The Free and Noble Spirit: A Festschrift for John Hospers

• Preface - Tibor R. Machan

Appreciation

• John Hospers and the Activity of Philosophy - Douglas B. Rasmussen

Articles

• Libertarianism, Welfare Rights, and the Welfare State - Jan Wilbanks
• Brothers in Chains: Emerson and Fitzhugh on Economic and Political Liberty - Larry Schweikart
• Hospers' "Ultimate Moral Equality" - John O. Nelson
• On the Foundation of Natural Rights - Jeffrey Paul
• Liberty, Equality, and Neutrality - Donald Wacome
• Brainwashing, Deprogramming, and Mental Health - Antony Flew
• Moore: The Liberator  - Tom Regan
• Judging Without Justice - Randy E. Barnett
• Preference Utilitarianism, Prior Existence, and Moral Replaceability - Eric Mack
• Assassination - Joseph Margolis
• Hospers on the Artist's Intentions - Mary Sirridge
• Self - J. Roger Lee
• Aristotle and the Natural Rights Tradition - Fred D. Miller
• Toward a Genuine Philosophy of the Performing Arts - Randall R. Dipert

Discussion Notes

• Notes on Dipert's Review of The Evidence of the Senses - Robert E. Knapp
• Knapp on Kelley - Randall R. Dipert

Book Reviews

• David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement and Loren Lomasky's Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community - Mark C. Phillips
• John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tippler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle - Charles D. Brown
• Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind - Douglas J. Den Uyl
• Douglas Den Uyl's Power, State, and Freedom - Wallace Matson
• Michael Fox's The Case for Animal Experimentation - John Hospers

Issue No. 12 - Spring 1987 (Full Issue)

• Editor's Note - Tibor R. Machan

Articles

• Liberty, Virtue, and Self - Development: A Eudaimonistic Perspective - David L. Norton
• Marxism: Religious Faith and Bad Faith - Antony Flew
• Marxism as Pseudo-Science - Ernest Van Den Haag
• The Ethics of Hunting: Killing as Life-Sustaining - Theodore Vitali

Discussion Notes

• Exploitation - John Ahrens
• How the Jacksonians Opposed Industrialization: Lessons of Democratic Banking Policies - Larry Schweikart

Review Essay

• David Kelley’s The Evidence of the Senes: A Realist Theory of Perception - Randall R. Dipert

Book Reviews

• Daniel C. Dennett’s Elbow Room: Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting - Joseph Boyle
• John Gray’s Liberalism - David L. Norton
• Steven Cahn’s Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia - Delos B. McKown

Issue No. 11 - Spring 1986 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Community Without Coercion - Hannes H. Gissurarson
• Economics and the Limits of Value-Free Science - Frank Van Dun
• What’s Really Wrong with Milton Friedman’s Methodology of Economics - Steven Rappaport

Discussion Notes

• Methods of Aborting - Clifton Perry
• Troubles with Flourishing - Gilbert Harman

Review Essays & Reviews

• Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons - Loren Lomasky
• Michael Slote’s Goods and Virtues - John Donnely
• C. Ronald Kimberling’s Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism and Popular Arts - Pamela Regis
• Don Herzog’s Without Foundations - Wallace Matson
• John Lach’s Intermediate Man - James Chesher

Issue No. 10 - Spring 1985 (Full Issue)

• Editorial - Tibor R. Machan

Articles

• Is Economics Independent of Ethics? - Jack High
• How the Jacksonian Favored Industrialization - Paul McGouldrick
• Economic Warfare in Defense of Liberty - Juliana Geran Pilon
• Choice and Rationality - Antony Flew
• On Improving Mankind by Political Means - Lester H. Hunt
• Constraining the Choice Set: Lessons from the Software Revolution - David Levy

Discussion Notes

• The Randian Argument Reconsidered: A Reply to Charles King - Paul St. F. Blair
• Is "Flourishing" a True Alternative Ethics - David L. Norton

Review Essays & Reviews

• John Gray’s Mill on Liberty: A Defence and Hayek on Liberty - Nicholas Capaldi
• Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights - John Hospers

Issue No. 9 - Winter 1983 (Full Issue)

Articles

• The Libertarian Philosophy of John Stuart Mill - Nicholas Capaldi
• Love, Politics, and Autonomy - Neera Kapur Badhwar
• Rationality and Freedom in Aristotle and Hayek - Fred D. Miller, Jr.
• A Physical Definition of Rights - Michael D. Rogers & Ann Weiss

Discussion Notes

• Distributing Ackerman’s Manna - Steven Sverdlik
• Self-Love and Benevolence - Douglas J. Den Uyl
• What are Natural Rights? A New Account - Christopher Morris

Review Essays & Reviews

• Robert Nozick’s Philosophical Explanations - Loren Lomasky
• Tom Regan’s All that Dwell Therein - James L. Hudson
• Diana Hume George’s Blake and Freud - Pamela Regis
• Roger Trigg’s Reality at Risk - Douglas Rasmussen
• Alexander Rosenberg’s Sociobiology and the Preemption of the Social Science - Thomas Lawson
• Peter Singer’s The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology - Peter Danielson

Issue No. 8 - Summer 1982 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Hobbes’s "Just Man" - Joel Kidder
• Four Kinds of Equality - Antony Flew
• U.S. Immigration: A Search for Principles and Predictions - Edwin G. West
• Science and Pseudoscience: Criteria and Demarcation - Charles J. List

Review Essays

• Philosophy: Beliefs, Attitudes and Justification - Gilbert Harman
• The Nature of Philosophy: A Reply to Harman - John Kekes
• The Liberal State versus Individual Rights - John H. Ahrens & Fred D. Miller, Jr.

Book Reviews

• J.R. Lucas’s On Justice - Laurence Thomas
• Bernard Siegan’s Economic Liberties and the Constitution - William D. Burt
• Antony Flew’s The Politics of Procrustes - Lance K. Stell

Issue No. 7 - Spring 1981 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Free Enterprise and Coercion - Jan Wilbanks
• Selective Perception - Thomas Russman
• Political Typology: A Suggested Clarification - Robert Pielke
• Ideology, Economics, and Knowledge - James Rolph Edwards
• Antifederalism and Libertarianism - Michael Allen

Discussion Note

• A Taoist Argument for Liberty - Edward A. Hacker

• Iredell Jenkins' Social Order and the Limits of Law - David Norton
• Renford Bambrough's Moral Skepticism and Moral Knowledge - Douglas J. Den Uyl
• Richmond Campbell's Self - Love and Self - Respect - Edward Regis, Jr.
• Karl Popper and John Eccles' The Self and Its Brain - John N. Gray

Issue No. 6, Spring 1980 (Full Issue)

Articles

• The Right to Death – Antony G. N. Flew
• Entitlements and the Theft of Taxation – Richard B. McKenzie
• On Modeling the Original Position – Eric von Magnus
• Hayek’s Conception of Freedom, Coercion, and the Rule of Law – Ellen Frankel Paul
• Liberty, and Possibly Wealth – E. C. Pasour, Jr.

Discussion Notes

• The Philosophic Content of the Apology – John O. Nelson
• Aristotle’s Polis – M. T. Owens, Jr.

Book Reviews

• Martin Hollis’ Models of Man – Wallace I. Matson
• Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method and Science in a Free Society – Robert Hollinger
• Reudiger Hermann Grimm’s Nietzsche’s Theory of Knowledge – Lester H. Hunt

Issue No. 5  - Winter 1979 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Freedom and Virtue - Douglas J. Den Uyl
• Rothbard's Intellectual Ancestry - Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.
• Formalism and Internal Evidence - Mary Sirridge
• Problems with the Austrian Business Cycle Theory - Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
• Hobbes's Theory of Sovereignty in Leviathan - James R. Hurtgen
• Von Mises and Time - Preference - Ross Levatter
• Review Essay: Democracy and Philosophy - James Hurtgen

Book Review:

• Stephen R. L. Clark's The Moral Status of Animals, reviewed by Michael Martin

Issue No. 4 – Winter 1978 (Full Issue)

Articles

• On Hobbes' Argument for Government - David B. Suits
• Rationality: Minimal and Maximal - Edward Walter
• The Study of Nationalism: A Methodological Inquiry - Judith Englander
• The Mechanistic Foundations of Economic Analysis - John C. Moorhouse
• On the Rational Justification of the State - Jan J. Wilbanks

Discussion Notes

• Recurring Questions and Autonomy - Humphrey Palmer
• A Note on Action and Causal Explanation -   Lester H. Hunt
• The Relevance of the Subjective - Don C. Lavoie
• A Muddle Confounded - Sidney Trivius

Book Review

• John Cooper's Reason and Human Good in Aristotle, reviewed by Fred D. Miller, Jr.

Issue No. 3, Fall 1976 (Full Issue)

Articles

• The Intemporal Dimension of Distributive Justice – Kaj Areskoug
• A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism – Michael Martin
• Conrad’s Experiment in Non - absolute Gospel: Nostromo – Newton Baird
• The Economic Epistemology of Ludwig von Mises – Lewis E. Hill & Gene C. Uselton

Discussion Notes

• Trivius on Economic Value – Michael Gorr
• The Irrelevance of the Subjective – Sidney Trivius

Book Review:

• Peter Unger’s Ignorance – Frederick L. Will

Issue No. 2, Fall 1975 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Dissolving a Muddle in Economics – Sidney Trivius
• Boundaries on Social Contract – James M. Buchanan
• Facts and Values: Is There am Naturalistic Fallacy? – Moshe Kroy
• Government and the Governed – Douglas J. Den Uyl
• Austrian Business Cycle Theory and its Implications – Charles E. Maling
• A Problem Concerning Discrimination – Charles King
• Group Therapy and Brainwashing – William Marina & Thomas Breslin
• Book Review: Roger Trigg’s Reason and Commitment – Douglas Rasmussen

Issue No. 1, Fall 1974 (Full Issue)

Articles

• Producer, Entrepreneur, and the Right to Property – Israel M. Kirzner
• Dual - Aspect Theory of Agency – Roger E. Bissell
• H. B. Acton’s Defense of the Market – Eric Mack
• Austin and Wittgenstein on "Doubt" and "Knowledge" - Douglas B. Rasmussen
• The State and Community in Aristotle’s Politics – Fred D. Miller, Jr.
• On Doing Moral Philosophy – Kai Nielsen
• Problems of Moral Philosophy – Carl R. Kordig
• Book review: Israel Scheffler’s Reason and Teaching – John O. Nelson