V I T A E TIBOR RICHARD MACHAN Residence: 2220 Park Newport Drive, No. 323 Newport Beach, CA 92660 USA Professor, Department of Philosophy Auburn Universtiy, AL 36849-5210 (on leave, 1997-1998) Distinguished Fellow & Professor, Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship & Business Ethics, School of Business & Economics Champan University, Orange CA 92666 Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 E-Mail Addresses: Tibor_R._Machan@link.freedom.com Machatr@mallard.duc.auburn.edu Web Page: ftp://lumina.ucsd.edu/pub/.../libuniv_dir/Machan_dir/Machan.html Personal History: 1939, March 18, born in Budapest, Hungary 1953 smuggled out of Hungary 1956 emigrated to USA 1958-62 US Air Force Three Children, Kate, Thomas & Erin (1979, 1979, 1984) Academic History: 1962-65 Claremont McKenna College (BA) 1965-66 New York University (MA) 1966-71 UC Santa Barbara (PhD) 1970-72 Asst. Prof. CSU Bakersfield, CA 1972-82 Assoc. Prof. SUNY Fredonia, NY 1975-76 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, CA 1982-84 Vist. Prof. Economics, UC Santa Barbara, CA 1984-85 Vist. Prof. Philosophy, U. of San Diego, CA 1983, 1985-86 Vist. Prof., Philosophy & Economics Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland 1986-present Prof. Philosophy, Auburn University, AL 1992-93 Vist. Prof. US Military Academy, West Point, NY 1994 (Fall), Olin Professor, Adelphi University, Graden City, NY Non-Acdemic Work: 1954-56 Welder, brick layer 1956-58 Carrier Air Conditioning Co., Draftsman 1962-66 Draftsman (Claremont City, New York University) 1966-70 School Bus Driver, Telephone Operator (Santa Barbara, CA) 1972-74 Editor, Reason Magazine (Santa Barbara, CA) 1979-84 Educational Programs Director, Reason Foundation 1979-82 Occasional Seminar Director, Liberty Fund, Inc. 1974-present, Editor, Reason Papers (annual scholarly journal) 1997-present, Consultant to Freedom Communications, Inc., Irvine, CA 1967-present, free lance columnist (LA Times, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, Orange County Register, etc.) Single Author Books: Classical Individualism (Routledge, 1998) (forthcoming) A Primer on Ethics (U. Oklahoma Press, 1997) Private Rights & Public Illusions (Transaction, 1995). The Virtue of Liberty (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economnic Education, 1994). Liberalisme, Ethique et Valuers Morales (Paris, France: Institut Euro 92, 1993). Capitalism and Individualism: Reframing the Argument for the Free Society (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf Books, 1990; New York: St. Martin's Publ. Co 1990). Liberty and Culture: Essays on the Idea of a Free Society (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989). Individuals and Their Rights (LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1989). Marxism: A Bourgeois Critique (Bradford, UK: MCB University Press Limited, 1988). The Moral Case for the Free Market Economy (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989, rev. [English] version of Freedom Philosophy). Freedom Philosophy (Stockholm, Sweden: AB Timbro, 1987). Introduction to Philosophical Inquiries (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1977; Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985). Human Rights and Human Liberties (Chicago, IL: Nelson-Hall, 1975). The Pseudo-Science of B.F. Skinner (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1974). Edited Books: Political Philosophy, Essential Selections, [w/A. Skoble] (Prentice Hall, 1999) Liberty for the 21st Century: Contemporary Libertarian Thought [w/D. B. Rasmussen] (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995) Commerce and Morality (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1988). The Main Debate: Communism vs. Capitalism (N.Y.: Random House, 1987). Recent Work in Philosophy [w/K. G. Lucey] (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1983). Rights and Regulation [with M. Bruce Johnson] (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1983). The Libertarian Reader (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1982). The Libertarian Alternative (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1974) Invited Essays/Chapters in Books Edited By Machan & Others: "Capitalism and Freedom," in D. James, ed., Outside Looking In (NY: Harper & Row, 1972). "On the Possibility of Objectivity and Moral Determinants in Scientific Change," in Karen D. Knorr, et al., eds., Determinants and Controls of Scientific Development (Boston, MA: D. Reidel, 1975). "Naturalism, Values and the Social Sciences," in W. Leinfellner, et al., eds., Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle and Critical Rationalism (Kirchberg-an-Wechsel, Austria: Austrian Wittgenstein Congress, 1978). "Reason, Morality, and the Free Society," in R. L. Cunningham, ed., Liberty and the Rule of Law (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1979). "Human Rights," in S. J. Fodero, ed., The Academic American Encyclopedia (Baltimore, MD: Arete, 1980). "Human Rights, Political Change and Feudalism," in A. Rosenbaum, ed., Philosophies of Human Rights (Greenwich, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981). "The Petty Tyrannies of Government Regulation," in T. Machan and M. Bruce Johnson, eds., Rights & Regulation (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1983), pp. 259-88. "Should Business Be Regulated?" in Tom Regan, ed., Just Business (NY: Random House, 1983). "Pollution and Political Theory," in Tom Regan, ed., Earthbound (NY: Random House, 1984). "Gewirth and the Supportive State," with D. Den Uyl in E. Regis, Jr., ed., Gewirth's Ethical Rationalism (Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984). "Socialism as Reactionism," in Kurt Leube and Albert Zlabinger, eds., The Political Economy of Freedom: Essays in Honor of F. A. Hayek (Munchen, Germany: Philosophia Verlag, 1984), pp. 47-60. "Property Rights and the Decent Society," in J. K. Roth and R. C. Whittemore, eds., Ideology and American Experience (Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute Press, 1986), pp. 121-153. "Rights and Myths at the Workplace," in Gertrude Ezorsky, ed., Moral Rights in the Workplace (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1987), pp. 45-50 "The Classical Egoist Basis of Capitalism," in Tibor Machan, ed., The Main Debate (New York: Random House, 1987), pp. 139-161. "L'etica del mercato (The Ethics of the Market)," in E. Sogno, ed., I. Liberalismi Vincenti (Torino, Italy: Centro Studi Manlio Brosio, 1985). "Ethics and Political Economy," in Tibor Machan, ed., Commerce and Morality (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988). "Government Regulation," in Tibor Machan, ed., Commerce and Morality (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988). "The Uses of Ethics," in Tibor Machan, ed., Commerce and Morality (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988). "Ethics vs. Coercion: Morality or Just Values?" in Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., et al., ed., Man, Economy and Liberty (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1988). "The Morality of Markets," in Thomas R. Dye, ed., The Political Legitimacy of Markets and Governments (New York: JAI Press, 1989). "A Virtually Perfect Document: Rights & the U.S. Constitution," in C. B. Gray, ed., Philosophical Reflections on the United States Constitution (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989). "What We Should Teach the Eastern Europeans," in A World Without Walls (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1990) "Rescuing Victims - From Social Theory," in D. Sank & D. I. Caplan, eds., To Be A Victim (New York: Plenum Press, 1991) "How to Understand Eastern European Developments," in Robert McGee, ed., The Market Solution to Economic Development in Eastern Europe (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992). "Welfare State is Grossly Misnamed," in Robert McGee, ed., Converting to a Market Economy in Eastern Europe (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992) "What We Should Teach the Eastern Europeans," in Robert McGee, ed., Recent Changes in the Economies of Eastern Europe (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992) "The Nonexistence of Basic Welfare Rights," in James Sterba, ed., Justice: Alternative Political Perspectives (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1992) "Teaching Business Ethics in an Academic Environment," in Robert W. McGee, ed., Business Ethics and Common Sense (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1992) "The Nonexistence of Basic Welfare Rights," in Steven Jay Gold, Moral Controversies: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993) "Do Animals Have Rights?" in William H. Shaw, ed., Social and Personal Ethics (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993). "Should All Persons Perform National Service?" in Mark Spangler, ed., Cliches of Political Control (Irvington on Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1994) "Must the Government Guarantee a Job for Everyone?" in Mark Spangler, ed., Cliches of Political Control (Irvington on Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1994) "To Solve Problems, do we Need Government Regulations? in Mark Spangler, ed., Cliches of Political Control (Irvington on Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1994) "Capitalism, Socialism and Ecology," in Hans Sennholz, ed., Man and Nature (Irvington on Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1994) "Justice, Self and Natural Rights," in James Sterba, ed., Morality and Social Injustice: Alternative Views (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995) "Capitalism," in J. J. Chambliss, ed., Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland 1995) "A Defence of Property Rights and Capitalism," in Brenda Almond, ed., Introducing Applied Ethics (Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1995) "Egoism, Psychological Egoism and Ethical Egoism," P. H. Werhane & R. F. Freedman, eds., The Encyclopedia of Business Ethics (London, England: Basil Blackwell, 1995) "Libertarianism," P. H. Werhane & R. F. Freedman, eds., The Encyclopedia of Business Ethics (London, England: Basil Blackwell, 1995) "Do Animals Have Rights?" in Jeffrey Olen and Vincent Barry, eds., Applying Ethics (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1996) "The Non-Existence of Welfare Rights," T. R. Machan & Douglas Rasmussen, eds., Liberty for the 21st Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995) "Business Ethics in a Free Society," T. R. Machan & Douglas Rasmussen, eds., Liberty for the 21st Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995) "Coping with Smoking," Newsweek Education Program, More Controversial Issues (New York: NewsSource Unit, 1996) Selected Articles: "Education and the Philosophy of Knowledge," Educational Theory, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1970, pp. 253-268. "Kuhn's Impossibility Proof and the Moral Element in Scientific Explanations," Theory and Decision, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1974, pp. 355-374. "Back to Being Reasonable," with Marty L. Zupan, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 142, No. 3, 1975, pp. 307-310. "Prima Facie v. Natural (Human) Rights," Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1976, pp. 119-131. "Was Rachels' Doctor Practicing Egoism?" Philosophia, Vol. 8, (1978), pp. 21-424. "Another Look at Logical Possibility," Personalist, Vol. 51, (1970), pp. 246-249. "Human Rights: Some Points of Clarification," Journal of Critical Analysis, Vol. 5, (1973), pp. 30-38. "Law, Justice and Natural Rights," Western Ontario Law Review, Vol. 14 (1975), pp. 119-130. "Human Dignity and the Law," DePaul Law Review, Vol. 26, (1977), pp. 119-126. "Belief Within the Thought of Pierre Bayle," Folia Humanistica, Vol. 16, (1978), pp. 608-619, 687-695. "Some Normative Considerations of Deregulation," Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1979, pp. 363-377. "Recent Work in Ethical Egoism," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 16, (1979), pp. 1-15. "C. S. Peirce and Absolute Truth," Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society, Vol. 16, (1980), pp. 153-161. "Essentialism Sans Inner Natures," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 10, (1980), pp. 195-200. "Rational Choice and Public Affairs," Theory & Decision, Vol. 12, (1980), pp. 229-258. "Some Recent Work in Human Rights Theory," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 17 (1980), pp. 103-115. "Wronging Rights," Policy Review, No. 17, 1981, pp. 37-58. "Some Philosophical Assumptions of National Labor Policy," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 4 (1981), pp. 67-160. "The Non-Rational Domain and the Limits of Economic Analysis: Comment," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 47 (1981), pp. 1123-1127. "Epistemology and Moral Knowledge," Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 36 (1982), pp. 23-49. "The Politics of Medicinal Anarchism," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 12 (1982), pp. 183-189. "A Reconsideration of Natural Rights Theory," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 19 (1982), pp. 61-72. "Individualism & the Problem of Political Authority," The Monist, Vol. 66 (1983), pp. 500-516. "Ethics, Professionalism and Public Service," Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 2 (November 1983), pp. 83-89. "Ethics and the Regulation of Professional Ethics," Philosophia, Vol. 13 (1983), pp. 337-348. "Recent Work on the Concept of Happiness," with Den Uyl, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 21 (1984), pp. 1-31. "Some Ontological Considerations of Skinnerism," Cogito, Vol. 3 (1985), pp. 42-72. "Another Look at Naturalist Ethics and Politics," Cogito, Vol. 3 (1985), pp. 75-114. "Some Doubts About Animal Rights," Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 19 (1985), pp. 73-75. "Is There A Right to Be Wrong?" International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 2, (1985), pp. 105-09. "Aiding A Suicide Attempt," Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 4 (Winter 1986), pp. 73-74. "The Virtue of Freedom in Capitalism," Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 3 (1986), pp. 49-58. "Metaphysics, Epistemology and Natural Law Theory," American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 31 (1986), pp. 65-77. "Recent Work in Business Ethics," with Den Uyl, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 24 (April 1987), pp. 107-124. "Advertising: The Whole Or Only Some of the Truth," Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 2 (1987), pp. 59-71. "Towards A Theory of Natural Individual Human Rights," New Scholasticism, Vol. 61, No. 1, Winter, 1987, pp. 33-78. "Corporate Commerce vs. Government Regulation: The State & Occupational Health and Safety," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 2 (Fall 1987), pp. 791-823. "Are Teleological Rights Theories Utilitarian?" Cato Journal, Vol. 7 (Spring/Summer 1987), pp. 255-58. "The Unavoidability of Natural Law and Rights," Modern Age (Winter 1987), pp. 38 -44. "A New Individualist Defense of the Free Market," International Review of Economics & Ethics, Vol. 2 (1987), pp. 27-39. "Should Cigarette Advertising Be Banned?" with Den Uyl, Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 2 (1988), pp. 19-30. "Harman's 'Refutation' of Flourishing Ethics," Thomist, Vol. 49 (1985), pp. 387-391. "Moral Myths and Basic Positive Rights," Tulane Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 33 (1985), pp. 35-41. "A Neglected Argument Against Theism," Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. II (1988), pp. 48-52. "The Morality of the Market Process," Florida Policy Review (Summer 1988), pp. 27-34. "The Fantasy of Glasnost," International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 16 (1989), pp. 46-53. "Are Human Rights Real?" Review Journal of Philosophy & Social Science, Vol. 13 (1988), pp. 1-22. "Individual versus Subjective Values," International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 16 (1989), pp. 49-59. "Is Natural Law Ethics Obsolete?" Vera Lex (Vol. 9, No. 1: 1989) "Rhetoric, Freedom and Capitalism," Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 6 (1989) "Natural Rights Liberalism," Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 4 (Spring 1990), pp. 253-65. "La Etica de la Privatizacion," Estudios Publicos, No. 37 (Verano 1990), pp. 139-45. "Politics and Generosity," Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 7 (1990), pp. 61-73. "Exploring Extreme Violence (Torture)" The Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 21 (Spring 1991), pp. 92-7. "Sobre los derechos humanos," Libertas, Vol. 8 (May 1991), pp. 39-114. "Do Animals Have Rights?" Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 5 (April 1991), pp. 163-173. "Teaching Business Ethics in an Academic Environment of Mistrust," Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business, Vol. 27 (March 1991), pp. 59-65. "Pollution, Collectivism and Capitalism," Journal des Economists et des Estudes Humaines, Vol. 2 (March 1991), pp. 83-102 "Classical Liberalism and the Market Economy," Spekuliantas, Vol. 3 (Winter 1992), pp. 32-41. "The Status of the Victim in Social Theory," Filozofia Istrazivaja, Vol. 41 (1991), pp. 489-97. "Politics and Ideology: Do Ideas Matter?" The Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business, Vol. 28 (June 1992), pp. 159-167. "How to Understand Eastern European Developments," Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 6 (1992), pp. 24-34. "Evidence of Necessary Existence," Objectivity, Vol. 1 (Fall, 1992), pp. 31-62. "Between Parents and Children," Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 23 (Winter, 1992), pp. 16-22. "The Right to Private Property," Critical Review, Vol. 6 (1992), pp. 81-90. "The Right to Privacy vs. Uniformitarianism," Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 24 (1993), pp. 76-84. "Applied Ethics and Free Will," Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 10 (1993), pp. 59-72. "Liberalisme et valeurs morales," Liberte, economique et progres social, No. 67 (March 1993), pp. 19-30. "Some Reflections on Richard Rorty's Philosophy," Metaphilosophy, Vol. 24 (January/ April 1993), pp. 123-135. "Environmentalism Humanized," Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 7 (April 1993), pp. 131- 147. "Individual Rights versus the Community, the Case of Environment " International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 20 (1993), pp. 54-65. "Ayn Rand versus Karl Marx," International Journal of Social Economics Vol. 21, Nos. 2/3/4 (1994) "What Remains of Communism Today?" International Journal of Social Economics Vol. 21, Nos. 2/3/4 (1994) "Individualism, Morality and the Free Market," Journal des Economists et des Estudes Humaines, Vol. 4 (Juin/Septembre 1993), pp. 363-376. "Professional Responsibilities of Corporate Managers," Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 13 (Fall, 1994). "Human Rights Reaffirmed," Philosophy, Vol. 69 (1994), pp. 479-489. "Posner's Pragmatic Jurisprudence," American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 40 (1995) "A Revision on the Doctrine of Disability of Mind," Persona y Derecho, Vol. 33 (May 1995). "Individualism and Classical Liberalism," Res Publica, Vol. 1 (1995), pp. 3-23. "What is Morally Right With Insider Trading," Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 10 (April 1996), pp. 135-42. "Indefatigable Alchemist: Richard Rorty's Radical Pragmatism," The American Scholar (Summer 1996) "Business Bashing," Jobs & Capital (Winter 1996) "Individualism and Political Dialogue," Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Sciences and the Humanities (Fall 1996) "For Individual Rights," Modern Age (Spring 1997) "Why Objective Morality Appears Subjective," Philosophia (f/c) "Does Libertarianism Imply Welfare Rights?" Res Publica (f/c) "Communication from One Feminist," Journal of Social Philosophy (f/c)