Conservative Rebellion

Dr. Richard Bishirjian earned the Ph.D. in Government at the University of Notre Dame. While an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, he worked in the Nixon and Goldwater campaigns for president and served as a political appointee in the Reagan “transition” and first Presidential Administration. From 1987 to 1992 he was a consultant to associates of President’s Lech Walesa and to US WEST International and other American companies entering the Polish marketplace. Dr. Bishirjian is founding President of Yorktown University.

• Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Metaphysics and philosophy of nature 1. Motion in Aristotle, Newton, and Einstein 2. Teleology: A Shopper's Guide 3. On Aristotle, Aquinas, and Paley: A Reply to Marie George Natural theology 4. Natural Theology Must Be Grounded in the Philosophy of Nature, Not in Natural Science 5. Existential Inertia and the Five Ways 6. The New Atheists and the Cosmological Argument 7. Between Aristotle and William Paley: Aquinas's Fifth Way 8. Why McGinn is a Pre-Theist 9. The Road from Atheism Philosophy of Mind 10. Kripke, Ross, and the Immaterial Aspects of Thought 11. Hayek, Popper, and the Causal Theory of the Mind 12. Why Searle is a Property Dualist Ethics 13. Being, the Good, and the Guise of the Good 14. Classical Natural Law Theory, Property Rights, and Taxation 15. Self-Ownership, Libertarianism, and Impartiality 16. In Defense of the Perverted Faculty Argument