Dan Lowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 124655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Lowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowe |
| SIGNATURE | LOWE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8841-0236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Biological Explanations of Social Inequalities
Inequalities of social goods between gender, racial, or other groups call out for explanation. Such inequalities might be explained by socialization and discrimination. But historically some have attributed these inequalities to biological differences between social groups. Such explanations are highly controversial: on the one hand, they have a very troubling racist and sexist history, but on the other hand, they are empirical claims, and so it …
The deep error of political libertarianism
Contemporary versions of natural rights libertarianism trace their locus classicus to Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia. But although there have been many criticisms of the version of political libertarianism put forward by Nozick, many of these objections fail to meet basic methodological desiderata. Thus, Nozick’s libertarianism deserves to be re-examined. In this paper I develop a new argument which meets these desiderata. Specificall…
A Colony in a Nation
The mounting number of deaths of unarmed black men and women at the hands of police has made a tense debate about race and policing in the United States unavoidable. With some notable exceptions, a
The Experience Machine Objection to Desire Satisfactionism
It is widely held that the experience machine is the basis of a serious objection to hedonistic theories of welfare. It is also widely held that desire satisfactionist theories of welfare can readily avoid problems stemming from the experience machine. But in this paper, we argue that if the experience machine poses a serious problem for hedonism, it also poses a serious problem for desire satisfactionism. We raise two objections to desire satisf…
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The Experience Machine Objection to Desire Satisfactionism
It is widely held that the experience machine is the basis of a serious objection to hedonistic theories of welfare. It is also widely held that desire satisfactionist theories of welfare can readily avoid problems stemming from the experience machine. But in this paper, we argue that if the experience machine poses a serious problem for hedonism, it also poses a serious problem for desire satisfactionism. We raise two objections to desire satisf…
The deep error of political libertarianism
Contemporary versions of natural rights libertarianism trace their locus classicus to Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia. But although there have been many criticisms of the version of political libertarianism put forward by Nozick, many of these objections fail to meet basic methodological desiderata. Thus, Nozick’s libertarianism deserves to be re-examined. In this paper I develop a new argument which meets these desiderata. Specificall…
A Colony in a Nation
The mounting number of deaths of unarmed black men and women at the hands of police has made a tense debate about race and policing in the United States unavoidable. With some notable exceptions, a
Biological Explanations of Social Inequalities
Inequalities of social goods between gender, racial, or other groups call out for explanation. Such inequalities might be explained by socialization and discrimination. But historically some have attributed these inequalities to biological differences between social groups. Such explanations are highly controversial: on the one hand, they have a very troubling racist and sexist history, but on the other hand, they are empirical claims, and so it …
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)