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    Coercion, Authority, and Democracy
    Dissertation, Waterloo. 2009.
    As a classical liberal, or libertarian, I am concerned to advance liberty and minimize coercion. Indeed on this view liberty just is the absence of coercion or costs imposed on others. In order to better understand the notion of coercion I discuss Robert Nozick's classic essay on the subject as well as more recent contributions. I then address the question of whether law is coercive, and respond to Edmundson and others who think that it isn't. Assuming that the law is in fact coercive, there is …Read more
  • On Coercion
    Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 18