New publication: E. Paez, “A republic for all sentients: Social freedom without free will”

A new paper of Eze Paez entitled “A republic for all sentients: Social freedom without free will” has been published in the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (online access).

Preprint version

Abstract

Most nonhuman animals live on the terms imposed on them by human beings. This condition of being under the mastery of another, or domination, is what republicanism identifies as political unfreedom. Yet there are several problems that must be solved in order to successfully extend republicanism to animals. Here I focus on the question of whether freedom can be a benefit for individuals without a free will. I argue that once we understand the grounds that make freedom a desirable property of choices, we can see how it is appropriate to predicate it of those made by any sentient agent.