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Reason Papers was founded in 1974, and was edited by Tibor R. Machan from issues 1 through 25 and by Aeon J. Skoble from issue 26 through 32. It is now edited by Shawn Klein, with Carrie-Ann Biondi serving as Book Review Editor. There have also been several special-topic issues with guest editors (noted below). Full-article PDF archives are hyperlinked (underlined) below. If the article you are looking for doesn’t come up please report the error. To order hard copies (if available), visit the Ordering page. Special thanks to Stephan Kinsella and David Veksler for their hard work in making this PDF archive possible.
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ISSUE 43, NO. 1 – SPRING 2023 (Full Issue)
Reason, Rights, and the Rule of Law: A Festschrift for Fred D. Miller, Jr.
- Editorial and Appreciation for Fred D. Miller, Jr. —Carrie-Ann Biondi
Symposium: Ayn Rand and the Metaphysics of Kant
- Comments on George Walsh, “Ayn Rand and the Metaphysics of Kant” —Fred D. Miller, Jr.
- Kant at the Masked Ball —Stephen R. C. Hicks
- A Thomistic Appraisal of the Transparency and Passivity of the Intellect —Patrick Toner
- Kantian Humility and Randian Hubris? —Marc Champagne
- Kant versus Rand: Much No to Walsh and Miller —Stephen Boydstun
- Entitlements to Personal and Extra-Personal Assets —Eric Mack
- Can Artificial Rights Be Natural? —Christopher W. Morris
- Aristotle and Natural Rights Revisited —David J. Riesbeck
- The King Alone: Law and the Limits of Virtue in Aristotle’s Politics —Cathal Woods
- Aristotle and Edmund Burke on Natural Rights: Recovering a Conservative Tradition —Tristan J. Rogers
- The Polis and Rights —Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen
- Aristotelians and Neo-Aristotelians —Aeon J. Skoble
- Other Agents: A Blessing and a Curse —Christoph Hanisch
- An Argument Against Welfare Rights —Peter Bornschein
- Aristotelian Support for Millian Free Speech —J.K. Miles
iSSUE 42, NO. 2 – Summer 2022 (Full Issue)
Symposium: James Stacey Taylor’s Markets with Limits: How the Commodification of Academia Derails Debate
- Woozles: Who is to Blame and What can be Done —Jeffrey Carroll
- Fable of the Deans: The Use of Market Norms in Academia —Jeppe von Platz
- Perspectives on the Limits of Markets —Chad Van Schoelandt
- Blame, Rot, and Commodified Research: Responses to My Critics—James Stacey Taylor
Book Reviews
- Salsman, Richard. Where Have All the Capitalists Gone?—Eric Daniels
- Younkins, Edward W. Exploring Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Magnum Opus. —Kathleen Touchstone
iSSUE 42, NO. 1 – Summer 2021 (Full Issue)
Symposium: Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl’s The Realist Turn: Repositioning Liberalism
- Concepts and Natures: A Commentary on The Realist Turn —David Kelley
- Why Liberalism Needs Metaphysical Realism —Aeon J. Skoble
- Liberalism’s Problem and the Self-Directedness Meta-Norm —Eric Mack
- Playing the Rights Game —Timothy Sandefur
- Human Nature, Convention, and Political Authority —Paul Gaffney
- A Not-Quite-Realistic Turn: A Burkean Reply and A Rights-Based Alternative —Lauren Hall
- Get Real —Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen
Book Reviews
- Eric Mack’s Libertarianism —Jeffrey Carroll
- Marc Champagne’s Myth, Meaning, and Antifragile Individualism: On the Ideas of Jordan Peterson —Sandra Woien
ISSUE 41, NO. 2 – Summer 2020 (Full Issue)
Symposium: Scott Scheall’s F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics
- Thoughts on Scheall’s F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: Whither Democracy? —Aeon Skoble
- Think Inside the Box—Timothy Sandefur
- Godly versus Godlike Government—Forrest Nabors
- Author’s Reply: Governed by Ignorance —Scott Scheall
- A Distinction between the Concepts of Humility and Modest —William Irwin
Review Essay
ISSUE 41, NO. 1 – Summer 2019 (Full Issue)
Symposium: Vicente Medina’s Terrorism Unjustified: The Use and Misuse of Political Violence
- Comments on Vicente Medina’s Terrorism Unjustified —Theresa Fanelli
- Terrorism Justified: Comment on Vicente Medina’s Terrorism Unjustified— Irfan Khawaja
- Response to Terrorism Unjustified by Vicente Medina —Graham Parsons
- Terrorism Always Unjustified and Rarely Excused: Author’s Reply
— Vicente Medina
- The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education —Stephen R. C. Hicks
- Politics as an Extension of the Harem —Jason Kuznicki
Review Essay
- Erin Kelly’s The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility
—Alexandre Abitbol
ISSUE 40, NO. 2 – Winter 2018 (FULL ISSUE)
Symposium: Stoicism Reconsidered: Part II
- More or Less within My Power: Nature, Virtue, and the Modern Stoic —Christian Coseru
- What Is and Is Not in Our Power: A Response to Christian Coseru —Massimo Pigliucci
- A Duty to Report Atrocities —Stephen Kershnar
Review Essay
- Jason Stotts’s Eros and Ethos: A New Theory of Sexual Ethics —Raymond Raad
- Harry Frankfurt’s On Inequality —Dries Glorieux
- Tamler Sommers’s Why Honor Matters —A. C. Spivey
ISSUE 40, NO. 1 – summer 2018 (FULL ISSUE)Symposium: Stoicism Reconsidered
Symposium: William Irwin‘s The Free Market Existentialist
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ISSUE 38, NO. 1 – SPRING 2016 (FULL ISSUE)Symposium: Philosophy of Play
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ISSUE 37, NO. 2 – FALL 2015 (FULL ISSUE)Symposium: David Kaspar’s Intuitionism
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ISSUE 37, NO. 1 – spring 2015 (Full Issue)Symposium: Christine Vitrano’s The Nature and Value of Happiness
Symposium: Emergencies
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ISSUE 36, NO. 1 – JULY 2014 (FULL ISSUE)Symposium: Robert Talisse’s Democracy and Moral Conflict
Symposium: Waco Twenty Years Later
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ISSUE 35, NO. 1 – july 2013 (FULL ISSUE)Symposium: Jason Brennan’s The Ethics of Voting
Symposium: Ayn Rand on Punishment
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Issue 34, no. 2 – october 2012 (Full Issue)Symposium: Sari Nusseibeh’s What Is a Palestinian State Worth?
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Afterwords
Issue 34, No. 1 – June 2012 (Full Issue) Special Issue: Imagining Better: Philosophical Issues in Harry Potter Part I: Metaphysics, Literature, and Self-Understanding
Part II: Integrating Theory and Practice for Living Well
Part III: The Dark Side of the Moral Imagination
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Issue No. 33 – Fall 2011 (Full Issue)Symposium: Rand and Hayek on Cognition and Trade
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Issue No. 32 – Fall 2010 (Full Issue)Articles
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Review Essay Book Review
Issue No. 31 – Fall 2009 (Full Issue)Articles: Business Ethics Symposium NOTE: the print edition of RP #31 contained the wrong version of Elaine Sternberg’s article. This website also had the incorrect version prior to 5/17/10. The error has been corrected, so the link below does go to the correct version.
Review Essay Book Reviews
Issue No. 30 – Fall 2008 (Full Issue)Articles
Review Essay
Book Reviews
Issue No. 29 – Fall 2007 (Full Issue)Articles
Articles ASVI Symposium on The Passion for Liberty
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Book Review
Issue No. 28 – Spring 2006 (Full Issue)Symposium: Angelo Codevilla’s No Victory, No Peace
AAPSS Symposium: War and Liberty
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Issue No. 27 – Fall 2004 (Full Issue)Articles
Discussions
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Issue No. 26 – Summer 2003 (Full Issue)
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Issue No. 25 – Fall 2000 (Full Issue)Articles
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Issue No. 24 – Fall 1999 (Full Issue)Articles
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Issue No. 23 – Fall 1998 (Full Issue)Articles
Special Forum: Rand & Philosophy
Discussion Notes
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Issue No. 22 – Fall 1997 (Full Issue)Articles
Symposium on Bioethics
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Issue No. 21 – Fall 1996 (Full Issue)Special Issue on Thoreau
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Issue No. 20 – Fall 1995 (Full Issue)
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Issue No. 19, Fall 1994 (Full Issue)Articles
Discussions
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Issue No. 18 – Fall 1993 (Full Issue)Special Issue on Ethics and Political Philosophy
Symposium: Feminist Philosophy Reconsidered
Symposium: Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl, Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order
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Issue No. 17 – Summer 1992 (Full Issue)Articles
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Issue No. 16 – Fall 1991 (Full Issue)Rethinking Foundationalism: Metaphilosophical Essays
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Issue No. 15 – Summer 1990 (Full Issue)Essays to Commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Completion of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature Articles
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Issue No. 14 – Spring 1989 (Full Issue)Special Lomasky Symposium Issue Articles
Lomasky Symposium
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Issue No. 13 – Spring 1988 (Full Issue)The Free and Noble Spirit: A Festschrift for John Hospers
Appreciation
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Issue No. 12 – Spring 1987 (Full Issue)
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Issue No. 11 – Spring 1986 (Full Issue)Articles
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Issue No. 10 – Spring 1985 (Full Issue)
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Issue No. 9 – Winter 1983 (Full Issue)Articles
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Issue No. 8 – Summer 1982 (Full Issue)Articles
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Issue No. 7 – Spring 1981 (Full Issue)Articles
Discussion Note Book Reviews
Issue No. 6, Spring 1980 (Full Issue)Articles
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Issue No. 5 – Winter 1979 (Full Issue)Articles
Book Review:
Issue No. 4 – Winter 1978 (Full Issue)Articles
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Issue No. 3, Fall 1976 (Full Issue)Articles
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Issue No. 2, Fall 1975 (Full Issue)Articles
Issue No. 1, Fall 1974 (Full Issue)Articles
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