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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops an analytical framework for understanding regulators' struggles for legitimacy, highlighting tensions between two key sources: credibility and responsiveness. A regulator must earn credibility with actors around the regulatory arena, but organizational tools for credibility‐building, including codified rules and mobilized
Takuya Onoda
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Some Hard Questions for Critical Rationalism
, 2014 ‘What distinguishes science from all other human endeavours is that the accounts of the world that our best, mature sciences deliver are strongly supported by evidence and this evidence gives us the strongest reason to believe them. ’ That anyway is what
David Miller
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International environmental agreements are key instruments for addressing transboundary environmental problems, but treaty ratification remains uneven and clustered across countries despite the proliferation of multilateral treaties. While existing research has concentrated largely on domestic political‐economic determinants, less is known ...
Elif Korkmaz Tümer, Mehmet Güçlü
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The Rational Design of Space Agreements: How Bilateralism Shapes Powerful States' Design Preferences
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The global governance of outer space relies heavily on international agreements, yet the institutional forms of these agreements remain underexplored. This article introduces a new dataset on various design features of 952 space agreements, offering the first large‐N overview of institutional design in space governance.
Jean‐Frédéric Morin +2 more
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Sensing Frames: A Contribution to Sensory Pluralism
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Are expressions like “sense of responsibility,” “sense of community,” and “business acumen” merely metaphors, or do they refer to deeper, socially embedded forms of perception? This article introduces the concept of “sensing frames”: the socially learned, culturally shaped, and pragmatically enacted modalities through which people perceive and
Giampietro Gobo +2 more
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Kant on Empiricism and Rationalism [PDF]
, 2013 Several scholars have criticized the histories of early modern philosophy based on the dichotomy of empiricism and rationalism. They view them as overestimating the importance of epistemological issues for early modern philosophers (epistemological bias),
Vanzo, Alberto
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Out of Error. Further Essays on Critical Rationalism
Praxis Filosófica, 2011 Diego Rosende
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No History Without a Method: Anticipation and Other Bad Contexts
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues for the centrality of methodological awareness in writing the history of philosophy. It does this by analysing and comparing different interpretive proposals presented by those engaged with past philosophical texts. Taking the literature on Thomas Hobbes from past and present century as an example, it shows the merits of ...
Ieva Höhne
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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
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The epistemological limits of Neo-Rationalism
By naming their architectural movement after a brand of philosophy that values reason over observation, and by professing an interest in the transcendence of geometry, the Neo-Rationalists wished to imbue their proposals with a sense of authority that ...
Steven Fleming (21281348)
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