What is Jan Narveson?
{{Infobox philosopher | region = [[Western philosophy]] | era = [[Contemporary philosophy]] | image = Jan_Narveson.jpg | name = Jan Narveson | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|size=100%}} | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1936}} | birth_place = [[Erskine, Minnesota]], US | school_tradition = {{hlist | [[Classical liberalism]] | [[anarchism|libertarian anarchism]] | [[contractarianism]]}} | main_interests = [[Political philosophy]] | notable_ideas = [[Contractarian]] [[libertarianism]] | influences = {{hlist | [[Thomas Hobbes]] | [[David Gauthier]] | [[Anthony de Jasay]] | [[Robert Nozick]]}} | influenced = | signature = }} '''Jan Narveson''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|ɑr|v|ɪ|s|ən}}; born 1936) is an American-Canadian political philosopher. He is the professor of [[philosophy]] emeritus at the [[University of Waterloo]]. He is an [[anarcho-capitalist]] and [[contractarian]].<ref>[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/joet/1998/00000002/00000001/00160014 Criticism of Narveson's Libertarianism] by [[G. A. Cohen]]</ref> ==Works== * ''Morality and Utility'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967. * ''Moral Issues'', Oxford University Press, 1983. * ''Political Correctness: For and Against'' co-authored with [[Marilyn Friedman]], Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. * ''Moral Matters'', 2nd ed., Broadview Press, 1999. * ''The Libertarian Idea'', Paperback edition (with new preface). Broadview Press, 2001. (Orig. pub.: Temple University Press, 1988) * ''Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice: Essays on Moral and Political Philosophy'', Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. * ''You and the State'', 2008. * ''This is Ethical Theory'', Open Court, 2010. * ''Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?'', Cambridge University Press, 2010. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/people/narveson.html Homepage of Jan Narveson at the Univ. of Waterloo] * [http://www.peterjaworski.com/Jan%20Interview.pdf An interview with Jan Narveson about the philosophy of Robert No