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Michael Huemer

Disciplines:
philosophy
ethics
epistemology
usa/colorado

Summary

American philosopher at University of Colorado Boulder — author of The Problem of Political Authority, Skepticism and the Veil of Perception, and Ethical Intuitionism — the most rigorous philosophical anarchist in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.

Core Contribution

Creates the philosophical anarchist argument against political authority — The Problem of Political Authority argues (from widely shared moral intuitions) that the state has no special moral authority that justifies its coercive activities; the book is the most rigorously argued philosophical case for anarchism in contemporary academic philosophy.

Notable Works & Achievements

Skepticism and the Veil of Perception

Ethical Intuitionism

The Problem of Political Authority

Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism

Historical Influences

G.E. Moore Ludwig von Mises A.J. Ayer

Intellectual Lineage

UC Berkeley Rutgers University of Colorado Boulder

Contemporaries & Peers

David Friedman Bryan Caplan

Minds Influenced

Libertarian political philosophy

Intellectual Posterity

The Problem of Political Authority Ethical Intuitionism

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