Eric Mack

Eric Mack is Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University where he is also a member of the faculty of the Murphy Institute of Political Economy. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Union College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Rochester. He has been a Visiting Fellow in Political Philosophy at Harvard University and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University.

He specializes in social and political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of law. He has edited two books, Auberon Herbert's The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays and Herbert Spencer's Man versus the State and Other Essays. He has published about 70 articles in scholarly journals and anthologies. These have primarily been on such topics as: the agent-relativity of value, the nature and foundation of moral rights, property rights, economic justice, Lockean provisos, rights and public goods, liberalism and pluralism, justified killing, anarchism, and bad samaritanism. Among his organizational affiliations, he is currently President of the Louisiana Association of Scholars