Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx FRSA was a German philosopher, political-economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the four-volume Das Kapital. No intellect of which I'm aware has equalled his, and no human being has given or sacrificed more for the cause of comprehensive human liberation than Karl and Jenny Marx, my 'hero-couple' since secondary school.
I. 'High' Theory: Logic, Justice, & 'Welfare Economics'
Papers in High-Level Model Theory and Nonstandard Logical Theory, Neo-Aristotelian Temporally Extended Action Theory, Distributive Justice Theory, and Welfare Economic Theory.
Intensional & Other Nonstandard Logics, Applications in Ethical, Social, & Political Theory
These papers employ nonstandard logics to model noncomparabilities, indeterminacies, and uncertainties, which are rife not only in ethical theory but also in political theory, social theory, and social science -including economics.
Purging Paretianism
These papers demonstrate the incompatibility of Paretianism with any principled normative stance whatever, be it in ethical, political, or welfare economic theory.
Distributive Justice Theory & Meta-Theory
These papers map out a unique 'metatheoretical' approach to Justice Theory by attending carefully to the case grammar of infinitives such as 'to distribute,' 'to allocate,' and their cognates. They also show, in virtue of the interformulability of equalizing and maximizing social welfare functions, that many theories that appear on the surface to be at odds are in fact deeply convergent upon a single, productive-opportunity-egalitarian distribution norm.
Temporally Extended Agency & Ordered Decision-Making through Time
These papers develop the themes of temporally extended agency and choice and decision in real time, showing how accounts of both these matters and justice that incorporate temporality and corporeality are inherently both more plausibly premised and yielding of more intuitively satisfactory normative conclusions.
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