About Ben Labe

I am a PhD Economics student at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As an undergraduate, I attended The University of Pittsburgh, where I studied Math, Economics, Philosophy, and Dance. I was put on this great earth for one reason: to let others know that they were not put on this earth for any good reason, but that Ethics persists nonetheless.

The Good Mind Project: Intolerance Toward Contradictions

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Consistency is absolutely essential to reaching the truth, because without it, truth becomes a completely vacuous concept.

The Good Mind Project

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What does aspiring toward goodness entail? In the first of a series of articles about ethics and values, Nathan Zimmerman and Ben Labe introduce us to The Good Mind Project.

The Man Who Kant Lie

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How can being a good man complicate the Prisoner’s Dilemma?

What Terrible Things Are You Capable Of?

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Of Mice and Men: Ben Labe explains what lessons we can learn from graphic novel ‘Maus.’