After publishing articles on my estoppel-based theory of rights and

Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “argumentation ethics” defense of libertarian rights

between 1992 and 1996, I published an article surveying estoppel, argumentation

ethics, and similar theories in the Journal of Libertarian Studies in

1996, entitled “New Rationalist Directions in Libertarian Rights Theory.”

An updated version of this article was published as “Dialogical Arguments

for Libertarian Rights” in The Dialectics of Liberty in 2019. This chapter is

based on the latter piece, and is updated still further.

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