Gerard Radnitzky
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Comprehensive grandiose rationalism
How seriously should we take William Warren Bartley’s The Retreat to Commitment? Despite its emphasis on critical inquiry, the work has a lot of elements that would place the book in a more obscure tradition.
The first thing that strikes the reader is the enormous number of pages that are devoted to the “search for identity” [...]
The presumption of liberty
Perhaps no political philosopher has done as much painstaking work to review the legitimacy and need for political authority as Anthony de Jasay. What makes de Jasay’s work stand out is his ability to engage with the technical arguments of political economists and philosophers without sacrificing common sense. For example, de Jasay understands the complications [...]
