Huemer's "Answer to Searle on the Mind-Body Problem" Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Oct 20 2016 SHARE POST: Just posted the last item in my lost works of Michael Huemer series. In this essay, Huemer critiques the great John Searle‘s strange attempt to avoid both eliminative materialism and dualism. P.S. If philosophy of mind strikes you as very far from economics, note that mental states – most notably “willingness to pay” and “willingness to accept” – are built into the very foundation of our discipline!
Oct 20 2016 Political Economy What Has Congress Ever Done for Us? David Henderson I've been catching up on Wall Street Journal issues that piled up over the summer. One particularly good unsigned editorial (the Journal calls these "Review and Outlook") was the July 19 (July 20 print edition) editorial titled "What Has Congress Ever Done for Us?" Here's a slice: The talk radio crowd has so fed the ... 8 Read More
Oct 20 2016 Macroeconomics Is the Fed a firefighter or an arsonist? Scott Sumner Most economists view the Fed as a sort of firefighter, an institution that pushes back against "shocks" that mysteriously arise in the private sector. Bob Hetzel and Josh Hendrickson have a different view. Here's Josh: The predominant difference between this view and the Taylor view presented above can be expressed ... 5 Read More
Oct 20 2016 Economic and Political Philosophy Huemer's "Answer to Searle on the Mind-Body Proble... Bryan Caplan Just posted the last item in my lost works of Michael Huemer series. In this essay, Huemer critiques the great John Searle's strange attempt to avoid both eliminative materialism and dualism.P.S. If philosophy of mind strikes you as very far from economics, note that mental states - most notably "willingness to p... 1 Read More