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159Clearing the rubbish: Locke, the waste proviso, and the moral justification of intellectual propertyPublic Affairs Quarterly 23 (1): 67-93. 2009.Defenders of strong Intellectual Property rights or of a nonutilitarian basis for those rights often turn to Locke for support.1 Perhaps because of a general belief that Locke is an advocate of all things proprietary, this move seldom receives careful scrutiny. That is unfortunate for two reasons. First, as I will argue, Locke does not issue a blank check in support of all property regimes, and the application of his reasoning to intellectual property would actually tend to favor a substantially…Read more
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36Robert Merges: Justifying intellectual property: Harvard UP, Cambridge, MA, 2011, xiv+402 pp, ISBN 9780674049482 (review)Ethics and Information Technology 14 (2): 169-177. 2012.
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2Hobbes, Marx, and the Foundations of Modern Political ThoughtDissertation, Vanderbilt University. 2000.This dissertation is a study of the nature and development of "modern" political thought, typical features of which include the "state of nature" and "social contract." Specifically, I argue that modern thought is constructive, which is to say that thinking is seen as, at least to some extent, generative of its objects. I focus primarily on Hobbes and Marx as liminal thinkers in the development of modern political thought. I begin with a discussion of the nature of construction in modern thought…Read more
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Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Technology Ethics |
Thomas Hobbes |
Baruch Spinoza |
Poststructuralism |
Critical Theory |