Faculty

Eric Mack (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is a Professor of Philosophy. His primary philosophical interests are in the foundation of moral rights, property rights and distributive justice, and the legitimate scope of coercive institutions. He has related interests in doctrines of negative responsibility, just war theory, anti-positivist conceptions of law, retributivism, philosophical anarchism, and the history of libertarian thought. He has received grants from NEH, the Earhart Foundation, the Center for Social Philosophy and Policy, and the Bradley Foundation, and has participated in and organized many philosophical conferences.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

EDITED VOLUMES:

Auberon Herbert, Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays , ed. Eric Mack. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1978.

Herbert Spencer, Man vs. the State: with Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom , ed. Eric Mack. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1982.

ARTICLES:

“In Defense of ‘Unbridled’ Freedom of Contract” , American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol.40, No.1 (January, 1981), pp.1-15

“Bad Samaritanism and the Causation of Harm” , Philosophy and Public Affairs , Vol.9, No.3 (Spring 1980), pp.230-259

“Rights, Liberties, and Expectations: A Reply to Sterba and Markie” , Vol.89, No.3 (April, 1979), pp.301-305

“Natural and Contractual Rights” , Ethics , Vol.87, No.2 (January, 1977), pp.153-159

“Distributionism Versus Justice” , Ethics , Vol.86, No.2 (January, 1976), pp.145-153

REVIEWS/REVIEW ARTICLES:

“Sighting Rights” , review of The Realm of Rights , by Judith Thomson. Ethics , Vol.103, No. 4 (July, 1993), pp.779-791

Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism , by Horacio Spector. Mind , New series, Vol.102 , No.406 (April, 1993), pp.394-397

“Of Transplants and Trolleys” , Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Vol.53, No. 1 (March, 1993), pp.163-167

The Libertarian Idea , by Jan Narveson. Ethics , Vol.100, No.2 (January, 1990), pp.419-421

Mill on Liberty: A Defense , by John Gray. Law and Philosophy , Vol.3, No.3 (1984), pp.427-430

For a New Liberty , by Murray Rothbard. The American Political Science Review , Vol.71, No.1 (March, 1977), pp.332-333