Counterfactual Success and Negative Freedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8092753 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Dowding (0000-0001-6888-9369, corresponding author), Martin Van Hees (0000-0002-9933-0020) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-162 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economics and Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-2671 • E-ISSN: 1474-0028 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0266267107001344 |
| OpenAlex | W2072389361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 3 |
Recent theories of negative freedom see it as a value-neutral concept; the definition of freedom should not be in terms of specific moral values. Specifically, preferences or desires do not enter into the definition of freedom. If preferences should so enter then Berlin's problem that a person may enhance their freedom by changing their preferences emerges. This paper demonstrates that such a preference-free conception brings its own counter-intuitive problems. It concludes that these problems might be avoided if the description of the constraints which specify an agent's lack of freedom include the intentions of those who constrain the agents
Counterfactual thinking · Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry · Economics · Epistemology · Freedom of choice · Microeconomics · Physics · Political science · Preference · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophy
CHAPTER 15 Freedom of Choice
Freedom as Independence
Value Neutrality and the Ranking of Opportunity Sets
Adaptive preferences, self-expression and preference-based freedom rankings
The problem of insignificant hands
Republican freedom, rights, and the coalition problem
Individually lucky, collectively powerful
Power
The other side of the argument”
The ability-independent value of freedom
The metaethical commitments of intuition use in analytic political theory
Causal Tests in Subjunctive Judgements About Negative Freedom
The Freedom of Collective Agents
Group Freedom
Evaluating Allocations of Freedom
Assessing the Use of Intuitions in Contemporary Political Theory
Ambiguity and vagueness in political terminology
Power, Capability and Ableness
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |