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November 12, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Peter Jaworski

Peter Jaworski (Georgetown/ GISME) will present a paper titled “Paid and Priceless: Toward an ethics-first theory of commodity identification.” Guests are welcome. Lunch will be provided. To reserve a spot, […]

October 7, 2025

Ethical Development of Startups and Ventures: Bridging Economics, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship

Join us from 3:30-5pm on Friday, November 7th in Hariri 160 for a panel discussion and networking event with The Hilltop Microfinance Initiative. The HMFI, in partnership with the Georgetown […]

September 5, 2025 • Oxford University Press

Debating Libertarianism: What Makes Society Just?

By Jason Brennan

Debating Libertarianism offers readers a sustained debate between two leading political philosophers over which vision of society–Rawlsian left-liberalism or libertarianism–is best and most just. In this crucial and timely book, […]

September 5, 2025 • Routledge Books

Questioning the Assumptions of Political Discourse A Philosophical Analysis of Fundamental Concepts (2025)

By John Hasnas

Much of our contemporary political discourse rests on unquestioned assumptions. This book questions these underlying assumptions and offers new answers.

September 5, 2025

Questioning the Assumptions of Political Discourse: A Philosophical Analysis of Fundamental Concepts

By John Hasnas

Much of our contemporary political discourse rests on unquestioned assumptions. This book questions these underlying assumptions and then offers new, unconventional answers. Disputes over how to use government power assume […]

September 5, 2025 • BBC World Service

America: The human plasma factory

Featuring Peter Jaworski

Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin needs $15,000-a-dose medication to treat her rare autoimmune condition. While she sits for hours at a time, just down the block is one of over 1000 commercial […]

August 8, 2025

Symposium on the Ethics of Free Inquiry on the University Campus

To be held in Hariri, room 360. The public is welcome to attend. Agenda at a Glance 8:15 – 8:30 am – | Welcome John Hasnas, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute […]

August 8, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Carmen Pavel

To be held in Hariri, room 570. Carmen Pavel (King’s College London) will present her paper titled “Ethical Expertise in Public Policy“. Lunch will be served. To attend, please email […]

August 8, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Bas Van der Vossen

To be held in Hariri, room 570. Bas Van der Vossen (Chapman Unviersity) will present a paper titled “Affirmative Action and Liberal Rights”. Lunch will be served. To attend, please […]

August 8, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Joseph Porter

To be held in Hariri, room 570. We will discuss Joseph Porter’s paper, titled “Is Democracy the Most Stable Political System”. Lunch will be served. To attend, please email the […]

August 8, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Allyson Rosenblum and John Hasnas

To be held in Hariri, room 570. The paper is titled “The Nature of the Right to Die”. Lunch will be served. To attend, please email the director of the […]

August 8, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Sahar Akhtar

To be held in Hariri, room 570. Sahar Akhtar (Georgetown University) will present a paper titled “Merit, Demeaning Actions, and Reaction Qualifications.” Lunch will be served. To attend, please email […]

April 13, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Michael Veber (East Carolina University)

Michael Veber (Associate Professor of Philosophy at East Carolina University) will present his paper “The Paradox of Dogmatism as a Regulative Epistemic Problem.” Paper Abstract: The paradox of dogmatism is […]

March 26, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Samuel Director (University of Richmond)

Samuel Director (University of Richmond) will present a paper titled “Social Sanctions, Criticism, and Speech.” Guests are welcome. Lunch will be provided. To reserve a spot, please email the director […]

March 4, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Violet Victoria (University of Oklahoma)

Violet Victoria (University of Oklahoma) will present a paper titled “Issues in the ‘Democratization’ of Financial Markets”. Lunch will be provided. To reserve a spot, please email the director of […]

February 25, 2025 • McDonough School of Business

Office Hours: Evaluating the True Impact of Seemingly Good Acts

Featuring Jason Brennan

by Maria Camila Gutierrez What does it truly mean to do good? Jason Brennan, Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor, explores the ethical complexities of doing good in Questioning […]

February 12, 2025

Faculty Workshop – John Hasnas

John Hasnas (Georgetown/ GISME) will present a paper titled “Second Thoughts about First Principles: A Critique of the Contemporary Conception of the Principle of Legality.” Guests are welcome. Lunch will […]

February 1, 2025

Faculty Workshop – Travis Quigley

Travis Quigley (Arizona) will discuss his paper, “The Case for Place-Based Liberalism.” Visitors are welcome. Lunch will be served. To attend, please email the director of the institute, Michael Douma, […]

December 10, 2024

Workshop on Teaching Professional Business Ethics

May 29 and 30, 2025 Agenda: Thursday: Session 1 – 9:00 am – 10:30 am: Overview: Rationale and Normative Core (Leader: Jason Brennan/John Hasnas) An explanation of the rationale undergirding […]

November 4, 2024 • McDonough School of Business

Business as a Force for Good: MBA Students Support Hurricane Helene Victims Through Ethics Project

Marshall Montgomery (MBA’25) has always been driven by a sense of purpose. That mindset is what led him to serve in the U.S. Army for seven years and later attracted […]

November 2, 2024

Legal Philosophy and Constitutional Theory Junior Scholar Conference

The Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics is co-sponsoring this event with the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Please reach out to Arielle Vertsman <> with any […]

October 7, 2024 • Daily NOUS

New Editorial Team at Philosophy and Public Affairs

The new editor-in-chief of Philosophy & Public Affairs is Jason Brennan (McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University).

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Rebecca Lowe (Mercatus Center)

Title: “Speaking Freely and Speaking Truthfully” Abstract: I begin by accepting that speaking freely is probably the most valuable activity to the societal acquisition of truth. But I quickly conclude […]

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Samuel Director (University of Richmond)

Samuel Director, Assistant Professor at the University of Richmond, will present his work-in-progress titled “Nudging, It’s Not the What, It’s the Who” (This event has been POSTPONED until Spring 2025)

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Keith Hankins (Chapman University)

Dr. Keith Hankins will present a paper titled “Four Dimensions of Realism in Normative Political Theory” Abstract: It has become common for political theorists to distinguish between two broad approaches […]

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Grant Rozeboom (St. Mary’s)

Grant Rozeboom will present his paper titled “Equality as an Aim of Markets.” This paper is part of a book project laying out a systematic view of the ideal of […]

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Sahar Akhtar (Georgetown) “Cruel Work”

Hariri Building Rm 310

August 28, 2024 • Oxford University Press

Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas

The common law can provide all rules necessary to sustain a peaceful, prosperous, liberal society.

August 28, 2024

Common Law Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas

In conventional political philosophy, law is understood as consciously created rules that are a necessary mechanism for regulating the excesses of the free market. Although coercive in nature, law is […]

August 20, 2024