Dan Moller
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 999934 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dan Moller |
| PRENOMES | Dan |
| SOBRENOME | Moller |
| ASSINATURA | MOLLER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1114-7070 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Utopia and the minimal state
Nozick famously suggests that we conceive of utopia as a meta-utopia, but how does that insight support libertarianism? In my interpretation, the emphasis is more on ‘meta’ than on ‘utopia.’ The point of Nozick’s thought-experiment is to draw our attention to the importance of community in general, and the need for many, diverse sub-communities, lest we end up trapped in someone else’s dream. This suggests an argument for libertarianism from free…
The Rationality of Emotions Across Time
Philosophers have struggled to explain the mismatch of emotions and their objects across time, as when we stop grieving or feeling angry despite the persistence of the underlying cause. I argue for a sceptical approach that says that these emotional changes often lack rational fit. The key observation is that our emotions must periodically reset for purely functional reasons that have nothing to do with fit. I compare this account to David Hume’s…
Keeping ideology in its place
Dilemmas of Political Correctness
Political correctness plays an important role in debates about poverty, work, and desert, and thus in debates about libertarianism. This chapter shows that there are legitimate reasons to uphold norms against impugning the public status of historically victimized communities, which is central to political correctness. However, upholding such norms also incurs costs, meaning that political correctness often confronts us with dilemmas. These costs …
Governing Least
This book defends libertarianism and more broadly a classical liberal view of political economy. It is often assumed that libertarianism depends on thinking that property rights are absolute, or on fetishizing individual liberty. This book argues that, on the contrary, the foundations of libertarianism can be found in widely shared, everyday moral beliefs–particularly in strictures against shifting our burdens onto others. The core of libertarian…
Love and the Rationality of Grief
Most people exhibit resilience in the face of losing those they love most. Three views have been put forward concerning this pattern. First is the conventional view that this response gets things just right. Second, the quasi-medical view is that grief represents a pathological disorder. And third, the minority view is that our typical grief responses are in fact insufficient. This chapter explores this terrain by examining the surprisingly stron…
A simple argument against design
This paper presents a simple argument against life being the product of design. The argument rests on three points. (1) We can conceive of the debate in terms of likelihoods, in the technical sense – how probable the design hypothesis renders our evidence, versus how probable the competing Darwinian hypothesis renders that evidence. (2) God, as traditionally conceived, had many more options by which to bring about life as we observe it than were …
Wealth, Disability, and Happiness
The Pyrrhonian Skeptic’s Telos
The Pyrrhonian Skeptic’s Telos
A simple argument against design
This paper presents a simple argument against life being the product of design. The argument rests on three points. (1) We can conceive of the debate in terms of likelihoods, in the technical sense – how probable the design hypothesis renders our evidence, versus how probable the competing Darwinian hypothesis renders that evidence. (2) God, as traditionally conceived, had many more options by which to bring about life as we observe it than were …
Wealth, Disability, and Happiness
Love and the Rationality of Grief
Most people exhibit resilience in the face of losing those they love most. Three views have been put forward concerning this pattern. First is the conventional view that this response gets things just right. Second, the quasi-medical view is that grief represents a pathological disorder. And third, the minority view is that our typical grief responses are in fact insufficient. This chapter explores this terrain by examining the surprisingly stron…
Dilemmas of Political Correctness
Political correctness plays an important role in debates about poverty, work, and desert, and thus in debates about libertarianism. This chapter shows that there are legitimate reasons to uphold norms against impugning the public status of historically victimized communities, which is central to political correctness. However, upholding such norms also incurs costs, meaning that political correctness often confronts us with dilemmas. These costs …
Governing Least
This book defends libertarianism and more broadly a classical liberal view of political economy. It is often assumed that libertarianism depends on thinking that property rights are absolute, or on fetishizing individual liberty. This book argues that, on the contrary, the foundations of libertarianism can be found in widely shared, everyday moral beliefs–particularly in strictures against shifting our burdens onto others. The core of libertarian…
Keeping ideology in its place
The Rationality of Emotions Across Time
Philosophers have struggled to explain the mismatch of emotions and their objects across time, as when we stop grieving or feeling angry despite the persistence of the underlying cause. I argue for a sceptical approach that says that these emotional changes often lack rational fit. The key observation is that our emotions must periodically reset for purely functional reasons that have nothing to do with fit. I compare this account to David Hume’s…
Utopia and the minimal state
Nozick famously suggests that we conceive of utopia as a meta-utopia, but how does that insight support libertarianism? In my interpretation, the emphasis is more on ‘meta’ than on ‘utopia.’ The point of Nozick’s thought-experiment is to draw our attention to the importance of community in general, and the need for many, diverse sub-communities, lest we end up trapped in someone else’s dream. This suggests an argument for libertarianism from free…
Epistemology (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 obras)