Conjectures & Arguments, Philosophy & Law

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Non-Citizen Voters and Excluded Citizen Voters

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"[ Speaker of the House]  Johnson said it is a serious problem because even if a tiny percentage of noncitizens do vote, it could deter...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Counting Pinecones: A Look at Consciousness

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It was a bumper year for pinecones on a path I walk often.   How many pinecones am I conscious of as I walk that path? As you may suspect, m...
Friday, July 12, 2024

How will Supreme Court Justices uphold mandatory school posting of the Ten Commandments?

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It seems a near certainty that there will issue from the Supreme Court an opinion that the State of Louisiana did not run afoul of the First...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

A $1000 Fine for a Billionaire’s Violation of a Judicial Gag Order?

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  I n a personal injury case, punitive damages, if awarded, are calibrated to cause pain to the defendant. Rich defendant, higher punitives....
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

If 4 weren’t even, would it be a prime number?

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This counterfactual conditional, you may think, is a little hard to evaluate. The counterfactual, you might say, is underdefined by its very...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

The Moral Metaphysics of the Right to Life Movement

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“Life Begins at Conception” is a favorite meme of forced birth theorists. What they understand it to mean, is not at all what it says. What ...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

The Flat Out Biological Mistake of the Alabama Supreme Court in the Frozen Embryo Case

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“[a]ll parties to these cases, like all members of this Court , agree that an unborn child is a genetically unique human being whose life be...
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Lawrence Crocker
My Ph.D, was from the Harvard Philosophy Department of Rawls, Putnam, Quine, Nozick, Kripke, Boyd et. al. in 1970. I taught at the University of Washington. Later with a J.D. from Duke, I clerked on the 9th Circuit, did corporate, then air crash litigation, then prosecuted in Manhattan, taught at NYU law, litigated some more, and then taught philosophy at Dartmouth, where I am now a Resident Scholar.
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