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We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt. The concept of freedom (and relatedly the notion of liberty) is ubiquitous but not everyone agrees what the term means, and the philosophical analysis of freedom that has grown over the last two decades has revealed it to be a complex notion whose meaning is dependent on the context. The Oxford
Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. This volume includes 28 new
essays by well regarded philosophers, as well some historians and political theorists, in order to reflect the breadth of the topic.This handbook covers both current scholarship as well as historical trends, with an overall eye to how current ideas on freedom developed. The volume is divided into six sections: conceptual frames (framing the overall debates about freedom), historical frames (freedom in key historical periods, from the ancients onward), institutional frames
(freedom and the law), cultural frames (mutual expectations on our 'right' to be free), economic frames (freedom and the market), and lastly psychological frames (free will in philosophy and
psychology).
We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt. The concept of freedom (and relatedly the notion of liberty) is ubiquitous but not everyone agrees what the term means, and the philosophical analysis of freedom that has grown over the last two decades has revealed it to be a complex notion whose meaning is dependent on the context. The Oxford
Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. This volume includes 28 new
essays by well regarded philosophers, as well some historians and political theorists, in order to reflect the breadth of the topic.This handbook covers both current scholarship as well as historical trends, with an overall eye to how current ideas on freedom developed. The volume is divided into six sections: conceptual frames (framing the overall debates about freedom), historical frames (freedom in key historical periods, from the ancients onward), institutional frames
(freedom and the law), cultural frames (mutual expectations on our 'right' to be free), economic frames (freedom and the market), and lastly psychological frames (free will in philosophy and
psychology).
I.
Chapter 1: Self-ownership Dan Russell
Chapter 2: Positive Freedom and the General Will Piper L.
Bringhurst and Gerald Gaus
Chapter 3: Moralised Conceptions of Liberty Ralf Bader
Chapter 4: On the Conflict between Liberty and Equality Hillel
Steiner
Chapter 5: Freedom and Equality Elizabeth Anderson
Chapter 6: Non-domination Frank Lovett
Chapter 7: The Point of Self-ownership David Sobel
II.
Chapter 8: Platonic Freedom Fred Miller
Chapter 9: Aristotelian Freedom David Keyt
Chapter 10: Freedom in the Scholastic Tradition Edward Feser
Chapter 11: Freedom, Slavery and Identity in Renaissance Florence
Orlando Patterson
Chapter 12: Freedom and Enlightenment Ryan Hanley
Chapter 13: Adam Smith's Libertarian Paternalism Jim Otteson
III.
Chapter 14: Market Failure, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Default
Libertarianism in Contemporary Economics and Policy Mark
Budolfson
Chapter 15: Planning, Freedom and the Rule of Law Steve Wall
Chapter 16: Freedom, Regulation and Public Policy Mark
Pennington
Chapter 17: Boundaries, Subjection to Laws and Affected Interests
Carmen Pavel
Chapter 18 Democracy and Freedom Jason Brennan
Chapter 19: Can Constitutions Limit Government? Michael Huemer
IV.
Chapter 20: Freedom and Religion Richard Arneson
Chapter 21: Freedom and Influence in Formative Education Kyla
Ebels-Duggan
Chapter 22: Freedom and the (Posthumous) Harm Principle David
Boonin
V.
Chapter 23: Exploitation and Freedom Matt Zwolinski
Chapter 24: Voluntariness, Coercion, Self-ownership Serena
Olsaretti
Chapter 25: The Impartial Spectator and the Moral Teachings of
Markets Virgil Storr
VI.
Chapter 26: Disciplinary Specialization and Thinking for Yourself
Elijah Millgram
Chapter 27: Free Will as a Psychological Accomplishment Eddy
Nahmias
Chapter 28: Prisoners of Misbelief: Why the Friends and Theorists
of Freedom Should Pay More Attention to its Epistemic Conditions
David Schmidtz is Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West
Virginia University's Chambers College of Business and Economics.
Before that, he was Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and Eller
Chair of Service-Dominant Logic at the University of Arizona. While
there, he served as founding Head of the Department of Political
Economy and Moral Science and founding Director of the Center for
the Philosophy of Freedom. Since 2012, he has been Editor of
Social Philosophy & Policy.
Carmen Pavel is Reader in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics in
the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.
As a masterpiece of the liberty tradition, The Oxford Handbook of
Freedom is a refreshing alternative to the voluminous literature
dominated by the debates over John Rawls's works. Rawls's liberty
principle and political liberalism have been for decades the most
discussed concepts in political philosophy. Philosophers explored
in great detail the theoretical subtleties of Rawls's ideas and
their relationships with other theories: utilitarian,
contractarian, Kantian, Marxist, feminist, communitarian,
postmodern, and others. The theoretical explorations also strongly
affected the domain of political doctrines, where liberal
egalitarian and social democratic ideals colonized public political
discourse. Other conceptions of liberty and liberalism have been
pushed under the shadow of that predominant paradigm. The Handbook
demonstrates that the leading paradigm is not the only one, and,
apparently, not the best one.
*Waldemar Hanasz, Metapsychology *
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