Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Just as I finished watching season 2 of Tiger King, which I loved by the way, I found in my mailbox copies of the Spring 2021 edition of the St Louis University Law Journal (volume 65, issue 3) as well … Continue reading →

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It’s time to wrap up our review of Chapter 5 of Anarchy, State, and Utopia (ASU). The last two subsections of Chapter 5 (pp. 113-119) are philosophical garbage disappointing. Why? Because Nozick concludes with two…

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To his credit, Nozick recognizes the reciprocal nature of the relationship between private protection agencies and independents in the sixth subsection of Chapter 5 (pp. 110-113). Specifically, if a protection agency decides to prohibit independents…

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Nozick appears to equivocate in the fifth subsection of Chapter 5 (pp. 108-110). He now claims that everyone has procedural rights (p. 108): “Everyone has the [natural] right to defend against procedures that are in…

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Do individuals have procedural rights in the state of nature? (Or conversely, do victims of harms or their allies have a moral duty to use only “fair and reliable” guilt-finding procedures before imposing any punishment…

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New year … same ol’ blog, so let’s continue with our review of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick identifies a major gap in natural law theory in the third subsection of Chapter 5 (pp. 96-101).…

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Clarification (June 11, 2020): I wrote and posted this part of my extended review of Nozick’s classic book “Anarchy, State, and Utopia” back in December of 2017. Recently, however, one of my readers brought to…

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Nozick addresses a very intriguing question in the first subsection of Chapter 5 of ASU (pp. 88-90): when does a private protection agency in a (Lockean) state of nature have the moral right to prohibit…

You may be aware that some fraction of academic research is based entirely on fabricated data — a problem that I spotlight in my 2017 paper “Legal Liability for Data Fraud” — but how much of the popular college and … Continue reading →

Have you ever wondered what are the most frequently used “emoji” images in the online world? If so, then check out this fascinating report by Jennifer Daniel on “The Most Frequently Used Emoji of 2021”. Ms Daniel, the chairwoman of … Continue reading →