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Record W2483630816 · doi:10.1057/9780230596870_6

Should the Left Embrace Left-Libertarianism?

2007· book-chapter· en· W2483630816 on OpenAlexaff
Colin Farrelly

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLibertarianismEgalitarianismEconomic JusticeLaw and economicsPoliticsPolitical philosophyLeft and rightIdeal (ethics)SociologyLawPolitical sciencePhilosophy

Abstract

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Left political philosophers have adopted a vast array of theoretical perspectives for diagnosing the ills of contemporary capitalist societies and they offer a plethora of different prescriptions for remedying these injustices. In this chapter I critically assess another principled account of justice that functions at the level of ideal theory - left-libertarianism. ‘ Left-libertarian theories of justice hold that agents are full self-owners and that natural resources are owned in some egalitarian manner’ (Vallentyne and Steiner, 2000b, p. 1). Debates concerning the viability of left-libertarianism as a political theory are beginning to gain momentum. Barbara Fried (2004, 2005) argues that one of the pillars of left-libertarianism - self-ownership - is an indeterminate concept and that left-libertarianism is indistinguishable from liberal egalitarianism. Mathias Risse (2004) argues that left-libertarianism is incoherent. Left-libertarians have retorted (Vallentyne, Steiner and Otsuka, 2005) by arguing that their theory is coherent, determinate and relevant. For the most part, the central focus of these spirited debates has been on the philosophical underpinnings of left-libertarianism rather than on its practical prescriptions. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.022
Scholarly communication0.0070.009
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.098
GPT teacher head0.332
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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