Eric Mack (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University and the author of Eric Mack (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Tulane
University and the author of John Locke (London: Continuum Press, 2009), Libertarianism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018), The Essential John Locke (Vancouver: Frazer Institute, 2020), and many scholarly essays in political philosophy. Professor Mack’s primary philosophical interests are in the foundation of moral rights, property rights and distributive justice, and the legitimate scope of coercive institutions. He has related interests in doctrines of negative responsibility, just war theory, anti-positivist conceptions of law, retributivism, philosophical anarchism, and the history of libertarian thought. He has received grants from NEH, the Earhart Foundation, the Center for Social Philosophy and Policy, and the Bradley Foundation.