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The Libertarian Reader » Read Now
by Tibor R. Machan. 288 pgs.

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Libertarianism without Inequality » Read Now
by Michael Otsuka. 158 pgs.

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The Free Society » Read Now
by Lansing Pollock. 182 pgs.

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Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives ("Libertarianism" begins on p. 91) » Read Now
by James P. Sterba. 482 pgs.

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Social and Political Philosophy introduces some of the most important topics in contemporary political philosophy and questions whether these can be accommodated within the framework of liberal theory. It consists of specially written essays by prominent figures in social and political philosophy...
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Social and Political Philosophy introduces some of the most important topics in contemporary political philosophy and questions whether these can be accommodated within the framework of liberal theory. It consists of specially written essays by prominent figures in social and political philosophy. Each essay carefully considers both the theoretical and practical problems of a major topic. Traditional perspectives are balanced with new challenges. Topics include:* Moral Methodology* Libertarianism* Socialism* Lesbian and Gay Perspectives* Feminism* Racial and Multicultural Perspectives* Rationality* Welfare Liberalism* Environmentalism* Virtue Ethics and Community* Just War Theory and Pacifism* Civil Disobedience.
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Libertarian Accounts of Free Will » Read Now
by Randolph Clarke. 244 pgs.

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This comprehensive study offers a balanced assessment of libertarian accounts of free will. Bringing to bear recent work on action, causation, and causal explanation, Clarke defends a type of event-causal view from popular objections concerning rationality and diminished control. He subtly explores...
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This comprehensive study offers a balanced assessment of libertarian accounts of free will. Bringing to bear recent work on action, causation, and causal explanation, Clarke defends a type of event-causal view from popular objections concerning rationality and diminished control. He subtly explores the extent to which event-causal accounts can secure the things for the sake of which we value free will, judging their success here to be limited. Clarke then sets out a highly original agent-causal account, one that integrates agent causation and nondeterministic event causation. He defends this view from a number of objections but argues that we should find the substance causation required by any agent-causal account to be impossible. Clarke concludes that if a broad thesis of incompatibilism is correct--one on which both free will and moral responsibility are incompatible with determinism--then no libertarian account is entirely adequate.
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The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (Part VI " Libertarian Perspectives on Free Agency and Free Will") » Read Now
by Robert Kane. 638 pgs.

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This comprehensive reference provides an exhaustive guide to current scholarship on the perennial problem of Free Will--perhaps the most hotly and voluminously debated of all philosophical problems. While reference is made throughout to the contributions of major thinkers of the past, the emphasis...
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This comprehensive reference provides an exhaustive guide to current scholarship on the perennial problem of Free Will--perhaps the most hotly and voluminously debated of all philosophical problems. While reference is made throughout to the contributions of major thinkers of the past, the emphasis is on recent research. The essays, most of which are previously unpublished, combine the work of established scholars with younger thinkers who are beginning to make significant contributions. Taken as a whole, the Handbook provides an engaging and accessible roadmap to the state of the art thinking on this enduring topic.
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Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969-1994 (Chap. 13 "Nozick: Libertarianism without Foundations") » Read Now
by Thomas Nagel. 229 pgs.

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Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and political philosophy...
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Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and political philosophy, as well as on fellow philosophers like Freud, Wittgenstein, Rawls, Dennet, Chomsky, Searle, Nozick, Dworkin, and MacIntyre.
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Ideology and Political Choice: The Search for Freedom, Justice, and Virtue (Chap. 7 "Libertarianism") » Read Now
by Vernon Van Dyke. 312 pgs.

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Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate » Read Now
by George W. Carey. 231 pgs.

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Like no other single work, Freedom and Virtue explores what unites and divides the adherents of these two important American traditions, shedding much light on our current political landscape.
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Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism, 1970-1992 » Read Now
by Timothy Evans. 158 pgs.

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Anti-Libertarianism: Markets, Philosophy, and Myth » Read Now
by Alan Haworth. 158 pgs.

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Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate » Read Now
by George W. Carey. 231 pgs.

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Like no other single work, Freedom and Virtue explores what unites and divides the adherents of these two important American traditions, shedding much light on our current political landscape.
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Market, State, and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism (Part I "A Critique of Libertarianism") » Read Now
by David L. Miller. 372 pgs.

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Can we conceive of a market economy that fulfills the ideals of socialism? Here, Miller provides a comprehensive examination, from the standpoint of political theory, of an economy in which market mechanisms retain a central role, but in which capitalist patterns of ownership have been superseded...
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Can we conceive of a market economy that fulfills the ideals of socialism? Here, Miller provides a comprehensive examination, from the standpoint of political theory, of an economy in which market mechanisms retain a central role, but in which capitalist patterns of ownership have been superseded. He shows that liberal ideas of freedom, justice, and efficiency cannot be used to vindicate laissez-faire capitalism, and rebuts left-wing criticisms of a socialist market economy. Justifying his ideas as a workable option, he then presents a new model of the socialist state, whose central idea is that of democratic citizenship.
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