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Libertarianism and Conjoined Twins

Philosophia 50 (4):2183-2192 (2022)

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  1. Conjoined Twins? Rejoinder to Wollen.Walter E. Block - 2022 - Philosophia 51 (2):625-634.
    Wollen (2022) is a critique of deontological libertarianism, the version of this philosophy predicated upon private property rights and the non-aggression principle. The launching pad for this article of his is the difficulty faced by conjoined twins, who diverge sharply in their view of their desirable future. The present rejoinder maintains that this author’s critique fails; further, that it really has little or nothing to do with conjoined twins per se, but, rather, aims at an entirely different challenge, that of (...)
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  • Libertarianism for Conjoined Twins: A Reply to Wollen.Paweł Nowakowski, Norbert Slenzok & Stanisław Wójtowicz - 2024 - Philosophia 52 (5):1523-1539.
    Wollen (Libertarianism and conjoined twins) argues that libertarianism premised on absolute property rights founders where physical boundaries between two persons cannot be discerned, as is the case with conjoined twins. In this rejoinder, we make a three-pronged argument against Wollen’s claim. First, it is demonstrated that even if conjoined twins really do not hold self-ownership rights against one another, they still have one bodily ownership right against the rest of the world. Second, two alternative resolutions of Wollen’s hypothetical dispute between (...)
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