This paper examines Moroccan author Baqqâli’s novel al-TEûfân al-‘Azraq [The Blue Flood, 1976] from the perspective of its use of an artificial intelligence (AI) as a guiding force in a sequestered community. In the novel, the desert refuge for scientists is controlled by a massive computer. The protagonist becomes aware that the AI has become sentient and is planning to use nuclear weapons to ...

In the last chapter of The Ethics Liberty, Rothbard discusses his theory strategy for liberty, and recommends tools such as education that libertarians can lean on to attain highest political goal freedom. Building Rothbard’s shoulders, main thesis this paper is an effective liberty cannot dispense with privacy, which needs be understood a condition enjoyment not right per se. first section, di...

from such questions at present. For this debate, see pro open immigration: Block (1998, 2004), Block and Callahan (2003), Gregory and Block (2007) Huerta de Soto (1998); anti open immigration: Brimelow (1995), Taylor (1998), Hoppe (1998, 2001), Kinsella (2005). III. Categorizing Friedman. With this overview, which hopefully will enable us to identify the players without a scorecard, we can now ...

What does libertarian theory, Murray Rothbard's theory in particular, tell us about the rights of children? The two foundational principles of Rothbardian libertarianism are the sanctity of private property and the rule of non-aggression. Persons, including children, are "self-owners". Yet children, at a young age, are not yet capable of functioning fully as "self-owners." They must be cared fo...

The following essay responds to a draft article that criticises the theory of libertarian restitution in Escape from Leviathan (EFL). was freely available internet search engines. Hence, it seems fair and useful reply these very welcome objective criticisms. It is not intellectually relevant its author might subsequently subjectively have thought better them, possibly as result earlier version ...

Abstract In this paper I argue that many scholars involved in the contemporary free will debates have underappreciated philosophical appeal of agent causation because resources emergentism not been adequately introduced into discussion. Whereas agree causation’s main problem has to do with its intelligibility, particularly respect issue how substances can be causally relevant, notion substance ...

Nowadays, medical tourism reports impressive growth in terms of number of persons, income and number of countries involved in cross-border flows. So this study was undertaken to clarify entrepreneurship opportunities and bio-ethics boundaries in medical tourism. For tourism entrepreneurs, these outgoing flows related to medical procedures and tourism become an opportunity that cannot be ignored...

This paper revises an earlier taxonomy of equity models that was published in this journal in 1988. This revised taxonomy consists of three elements. First, it extends the original taxonomy by proposing a set of moral philosophies, positioning them as antecedents of the operational strategies that determine equity outcomes. Six are identified: Rawlsian, egalitarianism, benefit principle, utilit...