Article: When hard heads collide: a philosopher encounters public choice.

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IN THE 1970s POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY HAD BEGUN TO ENJOY a renaissance among tough-minded analytical philosophers who previously had scorned it as second cousin to preaching and propagandizing. In part this reinvigoration was a response to real-world events. Civil rights aspirations that had somehow metamorphosed into riots and assassinations, the bottomless quagmire in Southeast Asia, university campuses on the brink of anarchy or just past it: these rather insistently placed calls on the resources of philosophy that went beyond inquiries into subtleties of language and logic. The timing could not have been more propitious for the appearance ...

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