Tibor Machan

Tibor Machan (b. 1939) is a leading philosopher of individualism. For more than three decades, he has fought the good fight in the academic world.

Smuggled out of Hungary in 1953, he earned his B.A. at Claremont McKenna College, his M.A. at New York University and Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Barbara. All degrees in philosophy.

He certainly is industrious. Influenced by Ayn Rand, he was among the original partners in Reason magazine which he edited for two years, and he edited Reason Papers. He edited The Libertarian Alternative (1974), The Libertarian Reader (1982), The Main Debate: Communism versus Capitalism (1987), Commerce and Morality (1988) and Business Ethics in the Global Marketplace (1999). He co-edited Rights and Regulation: Ethical, Political, and Economic issues (1983), Recent Work in Philosophy (1983) and Liberty for the 21sdt Century (1995).

He wrote The Pseudo-Science of B.F. Skinner (1974), Human Rights and Human Liberties (1975), The Freedom Philosophy (1987), Marxism: A Bourgeois Critique (1988), The Moral Case for the Free Market Economy: A Philosophical Argument (1988), Individuals and Their Rights (1989), Liberty and Culture: Essays on the Idea of a Free Society (1989), Capitalism and Individualism: Reforming the Argument for the Free Society (1990), The Virtue of Liberty (1994), Private Rights and Public Illusions (1995), A Primer on Ethics (1997), Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society (1998), Classical Individualism (1999), and Initiative: Human Agency and Society (2000). Machan co-authored The Business of Commerce: Examining an Honorable Profession (1998).

His articles have appeared in American Journal of Jurisprudence, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Professional Ethics Journal, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, American Spectator, American Scholar, The Freeman and Reason, among others.