B.A. Union College (1966)
Ph.D. University of Rochester (1973)
Email:
ericmack123@hotmail.com
Office:
105B Newcomb Hall
Phone:
(504) 862-3389
(225)769-4401
Academic Interests:
- Political Philosophy
- Ethics
- Philosophy of Law
- History of Political Theory
Selected Articles:
- "Libertarianism and Classical Liberalism: The Liberty Tradition"
(with Gerald Gaus), forthcoming in
Handbook of Political Theory,
G. Gaus and C. Kukathus, eds. (Sage).
- "Prerogatives, Restrictions, and Rights," forthcoming in
Social Philosophy and Policy.
- "The State of Nature Has a Law of Nature to Govern It," in
Individual Rights Reconsidered,
T.R.Machan, ed. (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 2001) pp.87-112.
- "Equality, Benevolence, and Responsiveness to Agent-Relative Value,"
Social Philosophy and Policy,
vol.16 no.1 (Winter 2002) pp.314-341.
- "Self-Ownership, Marxism, and Egalitarianism:
Part I. Challenges to Historical Entitlement,"
Politics, Philosophy, and Economics,
vol.1 no.1 (February 2002) pp.119-146.
- "Self-Ownership, Marxism, and Egalitarianism:
Part II. Challenges to the Self-Ownership Thesis,"
Politics, Philosophy, and Economics,
vol.1 no.2 (June 2002) pp.237-276.
- "Self-Ownership, Taxation, and Democracy:
A Philosophical-Constitutional Perspective," in
Politics, Taxation, and the Rule of Law
D. Racheter, ed. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002) pp.9-32.
- "Problematic Arguments in Randian Ethics,"
Journal of Ayn Rand Studies,
vol.5 no. 1 (Fall 2003) pp.1-66.
- "In Defense of the Jurisdiction Theory of Rights,"
The Journal of Ethics,
vol. 4 (2000), pp. 71-98.
- "In Defense of Individualism,"
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
2 (1999), 87-115.
- "The Alienability of Lockean Natural Rights" in
Persons and Their Bodies,
ed. M.J. Cherry ( Kluwer, 1999), 143-176.
- "Deontic Restrictions Are Not Agent-Relative Restrictions," in
Social Philosophy and Policy
(1998), 60-83.
- "Right-Wing Liberalism, Left-Wing Liberalism, and the Self-Ownership Proviso" in
Liberal Institutions, Economic Constitutional rights,
and the Role of Organizations,
ed. Karl-Heinz Ladeur (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997), 9-29.
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