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Welcome to the Reason Papers Archive

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.

Full-article PDF archives are hyperlinked (underlined) below. If the article you are looking for doesn’t come up, please report the error. Scroll down the page to click on either the full issue or the individual article that you wish to read.


ISSUE 44, NO. 2 – FALL 2024 (Full Issue)

Fiftieth Anniversary Issue

  • Editorial                                               —Carrie-Ann Biondi and Shawn E. Klein
Reason Papers Retrospective
Symposium: David Schmidtz’s Living Together

Symposium: Andrew I. Cohen’s Apologies and Moral Repair

iSSUE 44, NO. 1 – Spring 2024 (Full Issue)

Symposium: Firmin DeBrabander’s Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society

Discussion Notes

Review Essays

Book Review


iSSUE 43, NO. 2 – Fall 2023 (Full Issue)

Symposium: Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism: Philippa Foot and Ayn Rand

Review Essay


ISSUE 43, NO. 1 – SPRING 2023 (Full Issue)

Reason, Rights, and the Rule of Law: A Festschrift for Fred D. Miller, Jr.

Symposium: Ayn Rand and the Metaphysics of Kant

Articles

iSSUE 42, NO. 2 – Summer 2022 (Full Issue)

Symposium: James Stacey Taylor’s Markets with Limits: How the Commodification of Academia Derails Debate

Book Reviews


iSSUE 42, NO. 1 – Summer 2021 (Full Issue)

Symposium: Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl’s The Realist Turn: Repositioning Liberalism

Book Reviews

ISSUE 41, NO. 2 – Summer 2020 (Full Issue)


ISSUE 41, NO. 1 – Summer 2019 (Full Issue)

ISSUE 40, NO. 2 – Winter 2018 (FULL ISSUE)

Symposium: Stoicism Reconsidered: Part II

Article
Review Essay

  • Jason Stotts’s Eros and Ethos: A New Theory of Sexual Ethics    —Raymond Raad
Book Reviews 

ISSUE 40, NO. 1 – summer 2018 (FULL ISSUE)

Symposium: Stoicism Reconsidered

Symposium: William Irwin‘s The Free Market Existentialist

ISSUE 39, NO. 2 – winter 2017 (FULL ISSUE)

Symposium: Tara Smith’s Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System

Symposium: Part II: Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen’s The Perfectionist Turn
Articles

Book Review 
Afterwords

ISSUE 39, NO. 1 – Summer 2017 (FULL ISSUE)

Symposium: Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen’s The Perfectionist Turn

Symposium: Stephen Kershnar’s Gratitude toward Veterans

ISSUE 38, NO. 2 – Winter 2016 (FULL ISSUE)

Symposium: Andrew Jason Cohen’s Toleration

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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

Discussion Notes

Articles

ISSUE 37, NO. 1 – spring 2015 (Full Issue)

Symposium: Christine Vitrano’s The Nature and Value of Happiness

Symposium: Emergencies

Discussion Notes

Articles

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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Review Essays

Book Reviews
Afterword

ISSUE 35, NO. 1 – july 2013 (FULL ISSUE)

Symposium: Jason Brennan’s The Ethics of Voting

Symposium: Ayn Rand on Punishment

Articles
Discussion Notes

Review Essays
Afterwords

Issue 34, no. 2 – october 2012 (Full Issue)

Symposium: Sari Nusseibeh’s What Is a Palestinian State Worth?

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Discussion Notes

Review Essays

Book Reviews

Afterwords

Issue 34, No. 1 – June 2012 (Full Issue)

Special Issue: Imagining Better: Philosophical Issues in Harry PotterPart I: Metaphysics, Literature, and Self-Understanding

Part II: Integrating Theory and Practice for Living Well

Part III: The Dark Side of the Moral Imagination

Issue No. 33 – Fall 2011 (Full Issue)

Symposium: Rand and Hayek on Cognition and Trade

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Discussion Notes

Review Essays

Book Reviews

Afterwords


Issue No. 32 – Fall 2010 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Review Essay

Book Review


Issue No. 31 – Fall 2009 (Full Issue)

Articles: Business Ethics SymposiumNOTE: 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

ArticlesASVI Symposium on The Passion for Liberty

Review Essay

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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Review Essay

Book Reviews


Issue No. 27 – Fall 2004 (Full Issue)

Articles

Discussions

Book Reviews


Issue No. 26 – Summer 2003 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Review Essays

Book Reviews


Issue No. 25 – Fall 2000 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Review Essay

Book Review


Issue No. 24 – Fall 1999 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Review Essay

Book Reviews


Issue No. 23 – Fall 1998 (Full Issue)

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Special Forum: Rand & Philosophy

Discussion Notes

Review Essay

Book Reviews


Issue No. 22 – Fall 1997 (Full Issue)

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Symposium on Bioethics

Discussion Notes

Review Essays

Book Reviews


Issue No. 21 – Fall 1996 (Full Issue)

Special Issue on ThoreauGuest Editor: Kelley Dean Jolley

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Discussion Notes

Review Essay

Book Reviews


Issue No. 20 – Fall 1995 (Full Issue)

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Review Essays & Reviews


Issue No. 19, Fall 1994 (Full Issue)

Articles

Discussions

Review Essays

Book Reviews


Issue No. 18 – Fall 1993 (Full Issue)

Special Issue on Ethics and Political PhilosophyGuest Editor: Fred D. Miller. Jr.

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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Review Essay


Issue No. 17 – Summer 1992 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Review Essays

Book Reviews


Issue No. 16 – Fall 1991 (Full Issue)

Rethinking Foundationalism: Metaphilosophical EssaysGuest editors: Gregory R. Johnson and Glenn A Magee

  • Preface – Gregory R. Johnson and Glenn A. Magee

Articles

Discussion Notes

Review Essays & Reviews


Issue No. 15 – Summer 1990 (Full Issue)

Essays to Commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Completion of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human NatureGuest Editor: Stuart Warner

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Discussion Notes

Review Essays & Reviews


Issue No. 14 – Spring 1989 (Full Issue)

Special Lomasky Symposium Issue

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Lomasky Symposium

Discussion Notes

Review Essays

Book Reviews


Issue No. 13 – Spring 1988 (Full Issue)

The Free and Noble Spirit: A Festschrift for John Hospers

Appreciation

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Discussion Notes

Book Reviews


Issue No. 12 – Spring 1987 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Review Essay

Book Reviews


Issue No. 11 – Spring 1986 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Review Essays & Reviews


Issue No. 10 – Spring 1985 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Review Essays & Reviews


Issue No. 9 – Winter 1983 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Review Essays & Reviews


Issue No. 8 – Summer 1982 (Full Issue)

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Review Essays

Book Reviews


Issue No. 7 – Spring 1981 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Note

Book Reviews


Issue No. 6, Spring 1980 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Book Reviews


Issue No. 5 – Winter 1979 (Full Issue)

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Book Review:


Issue No. 4 – Winter 1978 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Book Review


Issue No. 3, Fall 1976 (Full Issue)

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Discussion Notes

Book Review:


Issue No. 2, Fall 1975 (Full Issue)

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Issue No. 1, Fall 1974 (Full Issue)

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