Libertarians believe that freedom exists but is incompatible with determinism, and so are committed to the compatibility of freedom and indeterminism. Perhaps the most pressing objection to libertarianism is the so-called Mind argument for the incompatibility of freedom and indeterminism. This essay presents a new criticism of the Mind argument that is at once decisive and instructive. After so...

A core question in the contemporary debate on distributive justice is how to understand fairness in situations involving production. Important theories of distributive justice, such as strict egalitarianism, liberal egalitarianism, and libertarianism, provide different answers to this question. This paper presents the results from a dictator game where the distribution phase is preceded by a pr...

We studied determinism and free will, encompassing links between philosophy, psychology, musical poetics, music analysis, theory of mind (MTOM). The a piece refers to its deterministic features, the compositional processes involved in creation, as well psycho-poetical composer. A strong composition generates multiple elements rigidly automatically under premises set by poetic determinist. weakl...

This essay examines the Swedish Freedom Front, created in 1989 by libertarians from editorial committee of Nyliberalen magazine. It argues that its emphasis on cultural, sexual, religious and political freedoms, libertarianism contained a different ideological repertoire neoliberalism. compares construction canon translated neoconservative neoliberal texts with popular vernacular register youth...

The past decade has witnessed a renewed interest in the works of twentieth-century Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand. Political events ranging from rise Tea Party to 2016 election Donald J. Trump have only helped spur this resurgence, further evident film adaptations and reissues her popular literary novels. pundits abound have, turn, deemed return Rand as victory for libertarian thought Republi...