Andreas T Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas T Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas T |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT A T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Freedom of Future People
What happens to liberal political philosophy, if we consider not only the freedom of present but also future people? In this article, I explore the case for long‐term liberalism: freedom should be a central goal, and we should often be particularly concerned with effects on long‐term future distributions of freedom. I provide three arguments. First, liberals should be long‐term liberals: liberal arguments to value freedom give us reason to be (pa…
The Well-Ordered Republic
An unresolved problem
Freedom is one of the central values in political and moral philosophy. A number of theorists hold that freedom (or, relatedly, opportunity) should either be the only or at least one of the central distribuenda in our theories of distributive justice. Moreover, many follow Mill and hold that a concern for personal freedom should guide, and limit, how paternalist public policy can be. For the most part, theorists have focussed on a person’s freedo…
The Power to Nudge
Nudging policies rely on behavioral science to improve people's decisions through small changes in the environments within which people make choices. This article first seeks to rebut a prominent objection to this approach: furnishing governments with the power to nudge leads to relations of alien control, that is, relations in which some people can impose their will on others-a concern which resonates with republican, Kantian, and Rousseauvian t…
The Power to Nudge
Nudging policies rely on behavioral science to improve people's decisions through small changes in the environments within which people make choices. This article first seeks to rebut a prominent objection to this approach: furnishing governments with the power to nudge leads to relations of alien control, that is, relations in which some people can impose their will on others-a concern which resonates with republican, Kantian, and Rousseauvian t…
An unresolved problem
Freedom is one of the central values in political and moral philosophy. A number of theorists hold that freedom (or, relatedly, opportunity) should either be the only or at least one of the central distribuenda in our theories of distributive justice. Moreover, many follow Mill and hold that a concern for personal freedom should guide, and limit, how paternalist public policy can be. For the most part, theorists have focussed on a person’s freedo…
The Power to Nudge
Nudging policies rely on behavioral science to improve people's decisions through small changes in the environments within which people make choices. This article first seeks to rebut a prominent objection to this approach: furnishing governments with the power to nudge leads to relations of alien control, that is, relations in which some people can impose their will on others-a concern which resonates with republican, Kantian, and Rousseauvian t…
The Well-Ordered Republic
The Freedom of Future People
What happens to liberal political philosophy, if we consider not only the freedom of present but also future people? In this article, I explore the case for long‐term liberalism: freedom should be a central goal, and we should often be particularly concerned with effects on long‐term future distributions of freedom. I provide three arguments. First, liberals should be long‐term liberals: liberal arguments to value freedom give us reason to be (pa…
Political science (4 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (2 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work)