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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Precedent and Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Precedent is the cornerstone of common law method. It is the core mechanism by which the common law reaches just outcomes. Through creation and application of precedent, common law seeks to produce justice.
Bader, William D., Cleveland, David R.
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Actualism, Possibilism, and the Nature of Consequentialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The actualism/possibilism debate in ethics is about whether counterfactuals of freedom concerning what an agent would freely do if they were in certain circumstances even partly determines that agent’s obligations.
Cohen, Yishai, Timmerman, Travis
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Was Einhard a widower?

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
wiley   +1 more source

The Bayesian explanation of transmission failure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Even if our justified beliefs are closed under known entailment, there may still be instances of transmission failure. Transmission failure occurs when P entails Q, but a subject cannot acquire a justified belief that Q by deducing it from P.
Pynn, Geoff
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
wiley   +1 more source

Apple v. Pepper: Applying the Indirect Purchaser Rule to Online Platforms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Long-established antitrust precedent bars customers who buy a firm’s product through intermediaries from suing that firm for antitrust damages. In Apple Inc. v.
Wasserman, Jason
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