A measure of freedom / Ian Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring the nature of judgements about degrees of freedom this book argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than who but that is also compatible with a liberal theory of justice.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: JUSTICE AND OVERALL FREEDOM""; ""1. The Concept of Overall Freedom""; ""1.1 Specific Freedoms and Overall Freedom""; ""1.2 Defining Freedom""; ""1.3 Intuitions and Common-Sense Comparisons""; ""1.4 The Specific-Freedom Thesis""; ""1.5 Is There Such a Thing as Overall Freedom?""; ""2. The Value of Freedom""; ""2.1 The Idea of Non-Specific Value""; ""2.2 Unconditional Value""; ""2.3 Intrinsic Value""; ""2.4 Instrumental Value""; ""2.5 Constitutive Value""; ""2.6 Non-Specific Value and Non-Specific Disvalue""

""2.7 Degrees of Overall Freedom to Do Valuable Things""""2.8 Extreme Differences in Specific Value""; ""2.9 Summary""; ""2.10 Definitions""; ""3. The Distribution of Freedom""; ""3.1 From Non-Specific Value to Freedom-Based Theories of Justice""; ""3.2 From Non-Specific Value to Distributive Principles""; ""3.3 From Distributive Principles to Powers of Measurement""; ""3.4 Conceptual and Realistic Theory, Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory""; ""3.5 Summary""; ""4. Reflective Equilibrium""; ""4.1 Measurement and Definition""; ""4.2 Powers and Demands""; ""4.3 Freedom and Justice""

""4.4 Swanton on Overall Freedom and Reflective Equilibrium""""4.5 Further Remarks on Reflective Equilibrium""; ""4.6 Reflective Equilibrium and Consensus""; ""PART II: VALUE-BASED FREEDOM""; ""5. The Value-Based Approach""; ""5.1 Why the Value-Based Approach? An Argument from Common-Sense Comparisons""; ""5.2 The Value-Based Approach and the Specific-Freedom Thesis""; ""5.3 The Rhetorical Interpretation: Some Counter-Arguments from Common-Sense Comparisons""; ""5.4 The Hybrid Approach""; ""5.5 The Value-Based Approach versus the Empirical Approach""; ""5.6 Evaluation and Measurement""

""5.7 Summary""""6. Self-Mastery""; ""6.1 The Idea of Self-Mastery""; ""6.2 Self-Mastery and the Specific-Freedom Thesis""; ""6.3 The Rhetorical Interpretation: Some Further Counter-Arguments from Common-Sense Comparisons""; ""6.4 The Priority of Empirical Freedom""; ""6.5 Summary""; ""PART III: EMPIRICAL FREEDOM""; ""7. Individual Freedom: Actions""; ""7.1 Steiner's Formula""; ""7.2 The Problem of Indefinite Numbers of Descriptions""; ""7.3 The Problem of Indefinite Subdivision""; ""7.4 The Problem of Indefinite Causal Chains""; ""7.5 Probability""

""7.6 Different Ways of Doing the Same Thing""""7.7 Act-Trees and Act-Roots""; ""7.8 The Variety of Options""; ""7.9 Under- and Over-Represented Actions""; ""7.10 Dealing with the Remaining Counter-Examples""; ""7.11 Physicalist, Empiricist, and Kantian Conceptions of Action""; ""8. Individual Freedom: Constraints""; ""8.1 Constraint Variables and their Sources""; ""8.2 Threats and Offers""; ""8.3 Difficulty""; ""8.4 Probability Again""; ""8.5 'Socialist' versus 'Libertarian' Conceptions of Constraints""; ""8.6 'Liberal' versus 'Republican' Conceptions of Constraints""; ""8.7 Conclusion""

""9. Group Freedom""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-926749-9

1-281-19036-5

9786611190361

0-19-152230-9

1-4294-2060-X

OCLC:

191826863