I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something dif….

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses a….

Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so ….

Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later..

Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave t….

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults..

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified..

What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?.

Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. E….

One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided ….

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within bla….

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some ….

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these….

Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people ….

Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thin….

There is room for words on subjects other than last words..

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults..

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, n….

Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just..

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction..

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies i….