Freedom as Non-domination and Democratic Inclusion

Democratic Freedom of Expression

This paper suggests the democratic direction in which the right of freedom of expression should be conceived and applied. In the first two sections it suggests some counter-examples to, and diagnoses of, the libertarian and liberal conceptions of freedom of expression, taking Scanlon (1972) and Scanlon (1979), respectively, to be their chief proponents. The paper suggests that these conceptions...

Reimagining Democratic Inclusion: Asian Americans and the Voting Rights Act

Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 359 I. Voting Rights Act, Section 2: Minority Voting Dilution and Protection of Communities of Common Interest ............................................................ 362 II. Democratic Inclusion and Demographic Diversity ..........................................

Perceived Legitimacy of Collective Punishment as a Function of Democratic versus Non-Democratic Group Structure

-domination based Random Elitist and Non- uniform Domination Strategy

MOEA/D multi-objective optimization algorithm features the shortcoming of losing partial of the excellent individuals when it updates sub-problems and its inefficiency of convergence speed. In order to overcome such shortcoming, we propose a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm based on adaptive epsilon-domination and random elitist strategy in this paper. This algorithm uses arc...

Powers, Non-Consent and Freedom

There are a number of dispositionalist solutions to the free will problem based on freedom consisting in the agent’s exercise of a power. But if a subject a is free when they exercise their power P, there is an objection to be overcome from the possibility of power implantation. A brainwasher, rather than directly manipulating a subject’s movements, can instead implant in them a desire, to be u...