Edited by British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Liberty, games and contracts: Narveson and the defence of libertarianism 1.Narveson, Jan, 19362. Libertarianism 3. Contractarianism (Ethics) 1.Murray, Malcolm 320.5'12 MALCOLM MURRAY University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Liberty, games, and contracts: Jan Narveson and the defence of...

This paper is in the main a critical study of Robert Kane’s account of the nature of Free Choice. I begin by briefly describing Kane’s theory. I then consider four questions about a concept that is central to his account—viz., the concept of an Effort of Will. I argue that Kane’s position affords satisfactory answers to three of these questions. Reflection on the fourth and final question, howe...

Abstract There is a growing consensus that Emilie Du Châtelet's challenging essay “On Freedom” defends compatibilism. I offer an alternative, libertarian reading of the lay out prima facie textual evidence for such reading. also explain how apparently compatibilist remarks in can be read as aspects sophisticated type libertarianism rejects blind or arbitrary choice. To this end, consider histor...

For many libertarians, the thesis of self-ownership is the foundation of their political philosophy. Natural rights to life, liberty, and propertyÑthe protection of which is, according to the libertarian, governmentÕs sole legitimate functionÑderive from self-ownership, in particular oneÕs ownership of his body and its parts, of his capacities and labor, and, by extension, of whatever he can ac...

“INTELLECTUALS . . . SEEK NEITHER TO understand the world nor to change it, but to denounce it,” so wrote Raymond Aron (1983, p. 158) in a damning critique of those who were very much his intellectual kindred. Such a sentiment may at first seem surprising since Aron was, after all, a Marxist scholar and lifelong socialist who felt comfortable with the social welfare states prevalent in postwar ...