A recent wave of academic and popular publications say that utopia is within reach: Automation will progress to such an extent and include

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The theories of Locke, Hume and Kant dominate contemporary philosophical discourse on property rights. This is particularly true of applied ethics, where they are used to settle issues from biotech patents to managerial obligations. Within these theories, however, the usual criticisms of private property aren't even as much as intelligible.Locke, Hume and Kant, I argue, develop claims about property on a model economy that I call "Frontier Town." They and contemporary authors then apply these claims to capitalist economies. There

A powerful objection against moral conventionalism says that it gives the wrong reasons for individual rights and duties. The reason why I must not break my promise to you, for example, should lie in the damage to you-rather than to the practice of promising or to all other participants in that practice. Common targets of this objection include the theories of Hobbes, Gauthier, Hooker, Binmore, and Rawls.I argue that: (1) The conventionalism of these theories is superficial. (2) Genuinely conventionalist theories are not vulnerable to the objection. (3) Genuine moral conventionalism is independently plausible.

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