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Popper on Freedom vs the State
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Popper on Freedom vs the State

Posted on December 28, 2021December 20, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

We need freedom to prevent the state from abusing its power, and we need the state to prevent the abuse of freedom. Clearly this is…

Why “Free Will” Might Not Be a Useful Term
Artifical General Intelligence

Why “Free Will” Might Not Be a Useful Term

Posted on August 31, 2021September 3, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Karl Popper once said: I do believe in freedom and reason, but I do not think that one can construct a simple, practical and fruitful…

Popper On “Coercion”
Morality

Popper On “Coercion”

Posted on January 21, 2021January 17, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In my previous post, I talked about the difficulties libertarians have even just agreeing with each other over what constitutes an ‘initial use of force.’…

Popper on Thomas Szasz
Critical Rationalism

Popper on Thomas Szasz

Posted on January 18, 2021January 3, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Thomas Szasz seems to be popular in certain Popperian circles, so I shouldn’t be surprised to find that they corresponded and Szasz saw his own…

Is “Initial Use of Force” an Easy-to-Vary Explanation?
Morality

Is “Initial Use of Force” an Easy-to-Vary Explanation?

Posted on January 15, 2021June 8, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Libertarians claim that the foundational moral principle of libertarianism is that it is immoral to “initiate force.” This concept of “initial use of force” –…

Do Most Citizens See Governments as Involuntary?
Economics

Do Most Citizens See Governments as Involuntary?

Posted on January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

An argument made by anarcho-capitalists is that anarcho-capitalism can be thought of as the idea that we should prefer voluntary interactions over non-voluntary ones. Because…

A Libertarian Defense of Original Appropriation?
Politics

A Libertarian Defense of Original Appropriation?

Posted on December 3, 2020November 9, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

In a previous post A Libertarian Account of Original Appropriation I described how libertarians understood the concept of “original appropriation” and ended up both criticizing…

A Voluntarist Account of The Founding of America
Politics

A Voluntarist Account of The Founding of America

Posted on September 17, 2020November 27, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

In this post, I am going to consider a Voluntarist account of the founding of the United States of America. Of interest is that Logan’s…

A Libertarian Account of Original Appropriation
Politics

A Libertarian Account of Original Appropriation

Posted on September 10, 2020September 3, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

In Logan Chipkin’s interview of Stephan Kinsella (starting about here) Kinsella explains the Libertarian concept of “Original Appropriation.” Kinsella says that we will need a…

A Voluntarist Account of Police and Court Systems
Critical Rationalism

A Voluntarist Account of Police and Court Systems

Posted on August 27, 2020August 5, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

How do libertarians (and here I specifically mean the anarcho-capitalist variety) believe policing and court systems might work without a state? I had a chance…

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