1st Edition

Markets with Limits How the Commodification of Academia Derails Debate

By James Stacey Taylor Copyright 2022
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

In Markets with Limits James Stacey Taylor argues that current debates over the moral limits of markets have derailed. He argues that they focus on a market-critical position that almost nobody holds: That certain goods and services can be freely given away but should never be bought or sold. And he argues that they focus on a type of argument for this position that there is reason to believe... Read more

Introduction

Part I: How the Debates Over the Moral Limits of Markets Became Derailed

1. The Magical Asymmetry Thesis

2. Semiotic Objections to Markets

3. Sandel, Semiotics, and Money-Based Exchange

4. Sex, Surrogacy, Semiotics, and Spheres: Anderson on Market Exchange

5. Walzer, Satz, Archard and Semiotics

Part II: Getting the Debates Back on Track

6. Expressivist Arguments

7. What We Talk About When We Talk About the Limits of Markets

Part III: From Market Norms to Academic Norms

8. Why Good Academics Produce Bad Research: Academic Incentives, Woozles, and Hoaxes

9. Market Norms and Academic Norms

10. The Theory and Practice of Changing Norms

Conclusion

Biography

James Stacey Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey, USA. He is the author of Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics (2012), Practical Autonomy and Bioethics (2009), and Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts Are Morally Imperative (2005), and is the editor of The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death (2013) and Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy (2005).

"In sum, this is an excellent book that does a tremendous job of clarifying where the action should be rather than where it is mistakenly taken to be in talking about the ethics of markets. In this sense the book does exactly what it says on the cover: it puts that debate back on the tracks. It does so in the service of what the author rightly thinks should be the norm governing academic work, namely aiming to secure a better understanding of the issues."
David Archard in Journal of Applied Philosophy

"Taylor’s incisive book should be required reading for all graduate students in philosophy, and perhaps in many other academic fields."
J. Angelo Corlett in The Philosophical Quarterly