Featured Lectures
The Epistemological Foundations of Western Thought
How Plato, Aristotle, and Kant shaped the architecture of what we consider knowable — and the limits of reason itself.
Markets, Morals & the Invisible Hand
Adam Smith's dual legacy — the moral philosopher and the economist — and how later interpreters severed what he united.
The Decline of Civilizational Confidence
Drawing on Spengler, Toynbee, and contemporary data — why great societies lose belief in themselves, and what historically follows.
Free Will, Determinism & Moral Responsibility
A rigorous philosophical treatment of compatibilism and hard determinism, with implications for law, ethics, and personal agency.
Thomas Sowell & the Constrained Vision
An intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most consequential thinkers — the ideas, origins, and enduring relevance.
The Sacred & the Rational: Theology Meets Reason
From Aquinas to Plantinga — the long history of reconciling faith and philosophy, and why the tension remains generative.
Papers & Research
Journal of Political Economy
On the Spontaneous Order of Complex Systems: A Hayekian Re-Appraisal
This paper revisits Hayek's concept of spontaneous order in light of contemporary complexity theory, arguing that emergent coordination mechanisms are more fragile than commonly assumed...
A rigorous examination of distributed knowledge and the epistemological limits of central planning, extended into modern institutional contexts.
Review of Metaphysics
Substance, Essence & the Problem of Universals in Late Scholastic Thought
Tracing the dissolution of Aristotelian substance metaphysics through nominalist critique, this paper identifies the philosophical rupture that prefigured modern materialism...
Exploring the ontological debates that quietly shaped modernity — from Ockham's razor to the scientific revolution and beyond.
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Capital Theory, Time Preference & the Structure of Production
A systematic reconstruction of Böhm-Bawerk's capital theory integrated with modern time-preference frameworks, with applications to contemporary monetary policy analysis...
Why the structure of production matters for understanding business cycles — and what mainstream economics continues to overlook.
Ethics · University of Chicago Press
Natural Law in a Secular Age: Grounding Moral Realism Without Metaphysical Foundations
Can natural law theory survive the death of its theological grounding? This paper argues for a neo-Aristotelian moral realism that derives normative claims from human flourishing...
Bridging the ancient and the contemporary — a defense of objective moral standards that does not depend on religious authority.
History of Political Thought
The Republican Tradition & the Problem of Democratic Excess
From Polybius to Madison — the classical republican concern with faction, passion, and the instability of popular government, reconsidered in light of contemporary political...
Why the Founders feared democracy — and what their institutional safeguards reveal about the fragility of self-governance.
Mind: A Journal of Philosophy
Consciousness, Qualia & the Hard Problem: A Critical Survey
Chalmers' hard problem remains unsolved. This survey examines physicalist, panpsychist, and mysterian responses, evaluating their respective explanatory adequacy...
The most stubborn question in philosophy of mind — and why no existing framework has yet closed the explanatory gap between brain and experience.
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