Amartya Sen and reparations

Back in 1982, Peter Bauer wrote a book in which he, among other things, defended capitalist institutions on desert theory grounds. This was problematic because desert theory is an utter disaster as a justification for capitalism because capitalism doesn’t even remotely adhere to it. Amartya Sen, an economist who also has serious economic philosophy expertise,… Continue reading Amartya Sen and reparations

I published a paper in “Philosophy and the Black Experience”

I just realized that a paper I wrote and published a year ago is now publicly available online (pdf). The paper is called “Atomistic Individualism and the Hermeneutics of Racist Philosophy” and is published in Volume 11, Number 1 of “Philosophy and the Black Experience.”