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Non-Egalitarianism
Here, I prove that equality has no intrinsic value.* [*Based on: “Non-Egalitarianism,” Philosophical Studies 114 (2003): 147-71.] 1. The Thesis…
Michael Huemer
Aug 6
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What’s a Fair Price? Or: You’re Not Underpaid!
(Note: Of course I don’t know whether you in particular are underpaid. But a lot fewer people are underpaid than think they are.) Many people have an…
Michael Huemer
Jul 31
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Knowledge, Reality, and Value
A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy
Michael Huemer
Jul 31
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Justice Before the Law
https://www.amazon.com/dp/3030675424/ Blurb America’s legal system harbors serious, widespread injustices. Many defendants are sent to prison for…
Michael Huemer
Jul 31
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Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138328294/ Blurb Worldwide each year, 74 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of a life of suffering…
Michael Huemer
Jul 31
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Paradox Lost
https://www.amazon.com/dp/3319904892/ Blurb Paradox Lost covers ten mind-boggling philosophical paradoxes, in which seemingly compelling reasoning leads…
Michael Huemer
Jul 31
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Approaching Infinity
https://www.amazon.com/dp/113756086X/ Blurb From ancient times, infinity has been steeped in paradox. According to one famous argument, nothing can ever…
Michael Huemer
Jul 31
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The Problem of Political Authority
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1137281650/ Blurb A foundational assumption of political philosophy is that some governments possess a moral property known as…
Michael Huemer
Jul 31
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Ethical Intuitionism
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0230573746/ Blurb This book defends a form of ethical intuitionism, according to which (i) there are objective moral truths…
Michael Huemer
Jul 31
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Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0916MZT8Z/. Blurb Since Descartes, one of the central questions of Western philosophy has been that of how we know that the…
Michael Huemer
Jul 31
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Causation as Simultaneous and Continuous
Here, I explain how all fundamental causation is simultaneous and continuous.* This is one of my better papers, but it’s somewhat neglected because…
Michael Huemer
Jul 23
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Political Activism: What's the Point?
I don’t mean to suggest that activism is pointless. I just want to ask: what are activists trying to accomplish? This may seem like a silly question…
Michael Huemer
Jul 16
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