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Epistemic theories of democracy, constitutionalism and the procedural legitimacy of fundamental rights [PDF]

, 2013
The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the legitimacy of constitutional laws and bills of rights within the framework of procedural epistemic democracy. The thesis is divided into three sections.
Allard-Tremblay, Yann
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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
wiley   +1 more source

The Age of Questions: Truth Regimes and Subjectivity in the Era of Large Language Models

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores how digital technologies shape subjectivity's infra‐political constitution, focusing on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Gemini within what philosophers, inspired by Michel Foucault, term the “digital truth regime.” After defining this regime, the essay identifies five key traits of LLMs: presentism in truth ...
Charles Corval
wiley   +1 more source

epistemic violence and philosophy for children

childhood & philosophy
This paper explores epistemic violence as it relates to communities of philosophical inquiry. The authors start by characterizing Kristie Dotson’s epistemic systems framework and connect these ideas to the concept of epistemic violence. The authors differentiate between epistemic violence and epistemic injustice and highlight two key incidents of ...
Alaina Gostomski, Sam Piede
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Violence and Dialogue: An Epistemic Analysis

, 2010
This paper discusses the notion of epistemic violence. It attempts to identify some theoretical structures that would lead to violent and authoritarian stances in interpersonal as well as cross-cultural ...
Luca Maria Scarantino
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Sustainability Assessment of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Review and Hybrid Architecture for Credible, Salient, and Legitimate Knowledge Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability assessment advances corporate social responsibility toward inclusive development. Widely recognized approaches prove inadequate for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), resulting in fragmented proliferation that hinders cumulative knowledge.
Luísa Couto Gonçalves de Souza, Laura Proença Guimarães, Maria Auxiliadora Drumond   +2 more
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Exploring the Role of Competitiveness in Sustainability Standards: Insights From an Animal Welfare Scheme Adopted by Supermarkets

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on supermarket‐related voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) is divided on whether competition helps or hinders efforts to reduce negative social and environmental impacts. This paper examines how the standardization process shapes these outcomes.
Frits Kremer, Frank de Bakker, Christine Moser, Hens Runhaar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Specialist family violence services: the heart of an effective family violence system

, 2015
The Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence is an extraordinary opportunity to interrogate and strengthen the family system in this state. Unprecedented increase in family violence incidents has placed demands on the system - the specialist ...
Domestic Violence Victoria
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Is Evidence‐Based Policymaking an Environmental Studies Agenda? An Interpretive Review

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studies of knowledge development and use for public decision‐making can be found across the social sciences. There have been increasing calls for meaningful integration of the contrasting disciplinary perspectives on this topic, including from environmental and sustainability sciences.
Peter Tangney, Raisa Adamjee
wiley   +1 more source

On violence in South African higher education:

Perspectives in Education
South Africa is inherently a violent country. From the service delivery protests, rise in murder rates, gender-based violence, and an increasingly violent higher education sector; South Africans are increasingly feeling vulnerable and despondent about ...
Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo
doaj   +1 more source