Talking existential risk into being: A Habermasian critical discourse perspective to AI hype

S Westerstrand, R Westerstrand, J Koskinen - AI and Ethics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have resulted in a hype around
both opportunities and risks of these technologies. In this discussion, one argument in …

[BOOK][B] Living together: inventing moral science

D Schmidtz - 2023 - books.google.com
Is moral philosophy more foundational than political theory? It is often assumed to be. David
Schmidtz argues that the reverse is true: the question of how to live in a community is more …

Libertarianism and pollution

M Zwolinski - 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
Because of its support for strong rights of private property and relatively unregulated
capitalism, libertarianism is often perceived as being fundamentally incompatible with the …

Blame and obligation: The importance of libertarianism and political orientation in the public assessment of disinformation in the United States

A Rauchfleisch, A Jungherr - Policy & Internet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Disinformation concerns have heightened the importance of regulating content and speech
in digital communication environments. Perceived risks have led to widespread public …

Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding

JL Kidder, AJ Binder, Z Cooper - Qualitative Sociology, 2025 - Springer
This paper examines how graduate students and professors talk about the funding they
receive from libertarian-leaning organizations. Building from cultural economic sociologists' …

Kee** Libertarianism Alive in the Academy: Organizations, Scholars, and the Idea Pipeline

Z Cooper, AJ Binder, JL Kidder - Socius, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, the authors draw on the literatures about academic career pipelines and the
sociology of ideas to understand how an outside group of organizations provides resources …

Libertarianism and the welfare state

M Zwolinski - The Routledge handbook of libertarianism, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Most libertarians regard the welfare state as morally illegitimate. This chapter examines why
opposition to the welfare state is the default libertarian position, and why some libertarians …

Libertarianism

M Zwolinski - The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Because of its support for strong rights of private property and relatively unregulated
capitalism, libertarianism is often perceived as being fundamentally incompatible with the …

Social Darwinism and Social Justice: Herbert Spencer and the Poor

M Zwolinski - Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social …, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
The charge of social Darwinism is not limited to the target of Herbert Spencer was an
English philosopher, or even of libertarians more generally. But it is typically reserved for the …

The welfare-convergence dilemma: why social insurance is objectionable in the convergence conception of public justification

M Li, B Wong - Economics & Philosophy, 2025 - cambridge.org
Recently, convergence liberals, such as Kevin Vallier, argue that the principle of social
insurance could be publicly justified. Our paper challenges this marriage of convergence …