Browsing Trinity Business School by Author "Silver, Kenneth"

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    • Backwards Causation in Social Institutions 

      Silver, Kenneth (2022)
      Whereas many philosophers take backwards causation to be impossible, the few who maintain its possibility either take it to be absent from the actual world or else confined to theoretical physics. Here, however, I argue ...

    • Determination from Above 

      Silver, Kenneth (2023)
      There are many historical concerns about freedom that have come to be deemphasized in the free will litera- ture itself—for instance, worries around the tyranny of government or the alienation of capitalism. It is hard ...

    • Markets Within the Limit of Feasibility 

      Silver, Kenneth (2023)
      The ‘limits of markets’ debate broadly concerns the question of when it is (im)permissible to have a market in some good. Markets can be of tremendous benefit to society, but many have felt that certain goods should not ...

    • When Should the Master Answer?: Respondeat Superior and the Criminal Law 

      Silver, Kenneth (2023)
      Respondeat superior is a legal doctrine conferring liability from one party onto another because the latter stands in some relationship of authority over the former. Though originally a doctrine of tort law, for the past ...