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Authored by

Jason Brennan
Jason Brennan
Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor

Originally Appeared In

Project MUSE

This Paper Attacks a Strawman but the Strawman Wins: A reply to van Basshuysen and White

We reply to van Basshuysen and White’s criticism of our paper. We argue that they have misconstrued what our original claims were. Nevertheless, we maintain that their arguments against the position they incorrectly attribute to us fail.

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