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The Oxford Handbook of Freedom presents the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. It includes 28 new essays by well-regarded philosophers, historians, and political theorists.
List of contents
- I.
- Chapter 1: Self-ownership Dan Russell
- Chapter 2: Positive Freedom and the General Will Piper L. Bringhurst and Gerald Gaus
- Chapter 3: Moralised Conceptions of Liberty Ralf Bader
- Chapter 4: On the Conflict between Liberty and Equality Hillel Steiner
- Chapter 5: Freedom and Equality Elizabeth Anderson
- Chapter 6: Non-domination Frank Lovett
- Chapter 7: The Point of Self-ownership David Sobel
- II.
- Chapter 8: Platonic Freedom Fred Miller
- Chapter 9: Aristotelian Freedom David Keyt
- Chapter 10: Freedom in the Scholastic Tradition Edward Feser
- Chapter 11: Freedom, Slavery and Identity in Renaissance Florence Orlando Patterson
- Chapter 12: Freedom and Enlightenment Ryan Hanley
- Chapter 13: Adam Smith's Libertarian Paternalism Jim Otteson
- III.
- Chapter 14: Market Failure, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Default Libertarianism in Contemporary Economics and Policy Mark Budolfson
- Chapter 15: Planning, Freedom and the Rule of Law Steve Wall
- Chapter 16: Freedom, Regulation and Public Policy Mark Pennington
- Chapter 17: Boundaries, Subjection to Laws and Affected Interests Carmen Pavel
- Chapter 18 Democracy and Freedom Jason Brennan
- Chapter 19: Can Constitutions Limit Government? Michael Huemer
- IV.
- Chapter 20: Freedom and Religion Richard Arneson
- Chapter 21: Freedom and Influence in Formative Education Kyla Ebels-Duggan
- Chapter 22: Freedom and the (Posthumous) Harm Principle David Boonin
- V.
- Chapter 23: Exploitation and Freedom Matt Zwolinski
- Chapter 24: Voluntariness, Coercion, Self-ownership Serena Olsaretti
- Chapter 25: The Impartial Spectator and the Moral Teachings of Markets Virgil Storr
- VI.
- Chapter 26: Disciplinary Specialization and Thinking for Yourself Elijah Millgram
- Chapter 27: Free Will as a Psychological Accomplishment Eddy Nahmias
- Chapter 28: Prisoners of Misbelief: Why the Friends and Theorists of Freedom Should Pay More Attention to its Epistemic Conditions
About the author
David Schmidtz is Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West Virginia University's Chambers College of Business and Economics. Before that, he was Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic at the University of Arizona. While there, he served as founding Head of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science and founding Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. Since 2012, he has been Editor of Social Philosophy & Policy.
Carmen Pavel is Reader in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of Freedom presents the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. It includes 28 new essays by well-regarded philosophers, historians, and political theorists.
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As a masterpiece of the liberty tradition, The Oxford Handbook of Freedom is a refreshing alternative to the voluminous literature dominated by the debates over John Rawls's works. Rawls's liberty principle and political liberalism have been for decades the most discussed concepts in political philosophy. Philosophers explored in great detail the theoretical subtleties of Rawls's ideas and their relationships with other theories: utilitarian, contractarian, Kantian, Marxist, feminist, communitarian, postmodern, and others. The theoretical explorations also strongly affected the domain of political doctrines, where liberal egalitarian and social democratic ideals colonized public political discourse. Other conceptions of liberty and liberalism have been pushed under the shadow of that predominant paradigm. The Handbook demonstrates that the leading paradigm is not the only one, and, apparently, not the best one.
