I am Charles W. Johnson. This is my personal homepage. Now, Charles Johnson
is a common name; in case you are wondering, I am not:
- an Associate Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court,
- a founding member of the Flat Earth Society,
- a sociopathic warmongering blowhard,
- an 18th-century author of sensationalist pirate biographies,
- my own grandfather — the author of several essays (1, 2, 3) from the late 1960s on libertarianism and free market medicine.
If you're looking for information on them, you'll probably need to go elsewhere.
What I am is a student of Philosophy, web developer, left-libertarian writer, and sometime teacher of Logic. I was born on 27 July 1981, in San Antonio, Texas. I've lived most of my life in the South, especially in Auburn, Alabama. I studied Philosophy and Computer Science at Auburn University. I spent four years living in southeast Michigan, first in Ypsilanti and then in Ann Arbor. Most summers I teach philosophy classes to gifted teenagers through the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. I currently live and work in Las Vegas, where I share a townhouse with my beloved wife, Laura Breitenbeck.
Publications
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inHealth Care Reform
, in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty 60.2 (March 2010). 6–7.Individualism Clashes with Cooperation? It Just Ain't So!, in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty 59.1 (January/February 2009). 6–7.
Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin, in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty 58.6 (July/August 2008). 35–39.
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity: Toward a Dialectical Anarchism, in Anarchism/Minarchism: Is Government Part of a Free Country? Ashgate Press (February 2008).
- Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It, in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty 57.10 (December 2007). 12–17.
Sentences That Can't Be Said, or: How to Semanticize with a Hammer, in Southwest Philosophy Review 22.1 (January 2006). 185–198.
Can Don Quixote Tilt at William James? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pierre Menard, in Zetesis (2002).
Essays
- A Place for Positive Law (draft in progress)
- Intuition-Pumping for Fun and Profit (draft in progress)
- Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved? (draft in progress, co-authored with Roderick Long)
- A Tale of Two Distinctions: G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell on Memory and Ways of Knowing
- Why Problematic Idealism is Not a Problem: Kant's Refutation of Idealism as a Response to Hume's Skepticism
- If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem: Place and Personhood in the Crisis of Modernity
- Can Don Quixote Tilt at William James? or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pierre Menard
- The Cake is Rotten: Heterosexism, Marriage-Privilege, and the Case of Queer Marriage
Remarks
- Outwitting Old Nick: Some Remarks on Modality, Skepticism and the Evil Demon. Remarks on Mylan Engel's The Equivocal or Question-Begging Nature of Evil Demon Arguments for External World Skepticism (Midsouth Philosophy Conference, 2003-02-21)
- Remarks on Jan Narveson's Libertarianism: the Thick and the Thin (Molinari Society, APA Eastern Division, 2005-12-28)
- Remarks on Jack Ross's Labor and Liberty (Molinari Society, APA Eastern Division, 2005-12-28)
- Remarks on Mylan Engel's Epistemic Contextualism and the Problem of Knowing What One Says (Midsouth Philosophy Conference, 2006-02-24)
Anti-Mythology
- GT 2005-01-03: Robert E. Lee owned slaves and defended slavery
- GT 2005-01-10: Andrea Dworkin does not believe that all heterosexual sex is rape
- GT 2005-01-31: The Founders really did intend for there to be a wall of separation between Church and State
- GT 2005-03-26: Fathers for Lies: selective quotation and distortion of Catharine MacKinnon's position
