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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
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Alasdair MacIntyre: Conceptual Relativism, Thomism and Liberalism

Ideas y Valores, 2011
Influenced by Thomas Kuhn, Alasdair MacIntyre develops a conceptually relativistic theory of research traditions, aimed at describing the structure of these traditions and finding a principle that makes it possible to resolve the disputes among them. The
Carlos Isler
doaj  

Alasdair MacIntyre’s writings on medicine and medical ethics

Revista Bioética
Alasdair MacIntyre is a contemporary philosopher of Ethics and Politics best known for his book “After virtue”, 1981. The originality and relevance of this work lie in the presentation of his articles from the 1970’s about medicine and medical ethics ...
Patricia Souza Valle Cardoso Pastura, Marcelo Gerardin Poirot Land   +1 more
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The Royal Commission Into the Monetary and Banking Systems in Australia, 1935–1937

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian governments of the 1930s were less inclined to establish royal commissions than their predecessors in the 1920s, and few of the 1930s inquiries were of great moment. The exception was the royal commission appointed by the Lyons Government to inquire into the monetary and banking systems in Australia in 1935.
David Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Isler Soto, Carlos. “Alasdair MacIntyre: relatividad conceptual, tomismo y liberalismo”

Ideas y Valores, 2012
Isler Soto, Carlos."Alasdair MacIntyre: relatividad conceptual, tomismo y liberalismo", Ideas y Valores L/147 (2011): 89-111.
Jorge A. Díaz
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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The Welfarist Consequentialist Case Against Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: Empirical Failures, Normative Confusions, and the Primacy of Patient Care

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We have defended the view that there should be no accommodation of conscientious objectors in health care. Numerous critics have advanced arguments designed to defeat this conclusion. We respond here to what we take to be the most serious of the criticisms directed at our analysis. We begin with two distinct consequentialist lines.
J. Savulescu, U. Schuklenk
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Alasdair MacIntyre: relatividad conceptual, tomismo y liberalismo

Ideas y Valores, 2011
Influenciado por Thomas Kuhn, Alasdair MacIntyre presenta una teoría conceptualmente relativista sobre las tradiciones de investigación, la cual pretende no sólo describir la estructura de las distintas tradiciones, sino también encontrar un principioque
Carlos Isler S.
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Catching the spark: The role of electrodermal activity in understanding teacher enthusiasm and students' lesson enjoyment

British Journal of Educational Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Process‐oriented approaches are needed to understand the temporality and dynamics of teacher–student interactions in higher education classrooms. In this study, we follow a complexity science approach, based on non‐linear intra‐ and inter‐personal physiology methods, to explore the physiology of teacher–student interactions.
Muhterem Dindar, Ismail Çelik, Héctor J. Pijeira‐Díaz, Signe Siklander   +3 more
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