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Biography: Dr. Tibor Machan |
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Essays by Dr. Machan in The Radical Academy
Tibor R. Machan is Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and holds the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University. He is research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Machan was smuggled out from Hungary in 1953, when he was 14 years old. After immigrating to the United States in 1956, he served in the U.S. Air Force, and then earned BA (Claremont McKenna College), MA (New York University), and Ph.D. (University of California at Santa Barbara) degrees in philosophy. Machan wrote The Pseudo-Science of B. F. Skinner (1974), Human Rights and Human Liberties (1975), and The Freedom Philosophy (1987, in Sweden), Marxism: A Bourgeois Critique (1988) Individuals and Their Rights (1989) Liberty and Culture: Essays on the Idea of a Free Society (1989), Capitalism and Individualism: Reframing the Argument for the Free Society (1990), The Virtue of Liberty (1994), and Private Rights and Public Illusions (1995). He edited The Libertarian Alternative (1974), The Libertarian Reader (1982), The Main Debate: Communism versus Capitalism (1987) and Commerce and Morality (1988). He co-edited Rights and Regulation (1983), Recent Work in Philosophy (1983) and Liberty for the 21st Century (1995). Machan's A Primer on Ethics, was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1997 and his Generosity; Virtue in Civil Society by the Cato Institute in early 1998. He also wrote Classical Individualism for Routledge in 1998. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals, including The American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy of Science, Inquiry, Journal des Economists et des Estudes Humaines, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Theory and Decision, Philosophia, The Review of Metaphysics, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, The International Journal of Applied Ethics, Metaphilosophy, Res Publica, The International Journal of Social Economics, Public Affairs Quarterly and Think. He has written columns for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Journal of Commerce, The Houston Chronicle, Asia Times, The Wall Street Journal, and, as a regular columnist for three decades, The Orange County Register. His essays have appeared in National Review, Barron's, The Humanist, World & I, This World, Free Inquiry, Chronicles of Culture, The American Spectator, Policy Review, Economic Affairs, The Freeman, The American Scholar, Jobs and Capital and Reason Magazine. Machan co-founded Reason Magazine. He is on the advisory boards for several foundations and think tanks and has also served on the founding Board of the Jacob J. Javits Graduate Fellowship Program of the U. S. Department of Education. Machan has been a guest on "Firing Line" and numerous other interview programs. He co-hosted, with the late Sidney Hook, a television program, "For the Love of Work," on the ideas of Karl Marx. And he was featured on the ABC-TV special, "John Stossel goes to Washington," in January, 2001. He has been interviewed on National Public Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as well as the Argentine television program "Boom, Boom." In 1999 Machan was appointed editor for the Hoover Institution Press series, Philosophical Reflections on the Free Society. The series has published 9 volumes, among them Business Ethics in the Global Market (1999), Education in a Free Society (1999) Morality and Work (2000), The Commons -- its Tragedy and other Follies (2001), Individual Rights Reconsidered (2001), Liberty and Hard Cases (2001), Liberty and Equality (2002), Liberty and R&D (2002), and Liberty & Democracy (2002). Machan's books Initiative -- Human Agency and Society and Ayn Rand were also published in 2000. A Primer on Business Ethics, co-authored with James E. Chesher was published in late 2002 and The Passion for Liberty and The Liberty Option in 2003. His next book, Putting Humans First, Why We Are Nature's Favorites, was published in May, 2004. Neither Left nor Right, Selected Columns, came out in January 2004, from the Hoover Institution Press, while Ashgate Publishing Group in the UK will bring out Machan's Objectivity: Recovering Determinate Reality in Philosophy, Science, and Everyday Life in July of 2004. His memoirs, The Man Without A Hobby, will be published by Hamilton Books in September 2004. Machan was selected as the 2003 President of the American Society for Value Inquiry, and delivered the presidential address on December 29, 2002, in Philadelphia, at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, titled "Aristotle & Business." He is on the board of the Association for Private Enterprise Education. Professor Machan was visiting professor of philosophy at the United States Military Academy in 1992-93, and John M. Olin Professor at Adelphi University, in Garden City, NY, in the fall of 1994. He lectures regularly, on political philosophy and business ethics, in Europe, Latin America, South Africa, and New Zealand and throughout the United States. He lives in Silverado, California.
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