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Political and Institutional Development in England

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the political and institutional development of England from the Magna Carta to the Glorious Revolution. I argue that institutional change in this period is best understood through the lens of coalition formation. Political elites had heterogeneous preferences over first two, and then three, recurring axes of disagreement ...
Mark Koyama
wiley   +1 more source

Victoria Christman, Pragmatic Toleration. The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515-1555. Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2016
Victoria Christman, Pragmatic Toleration. The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515-1555. Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015, viii + 241 pp., isbn 978 1 58046 516 ...
Violet Soen
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Revising Structuralism in Times of Crisis: Lance Taylor and the Neo‐Structuralist Synthesis in the 1980s

Metroeconomica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the work of Lance Taylor in the broader context of efforts in the 1980s to renew the structuralist tradition of development economics, into what was then newly coined as neo‐structuralism. These efforts centred around three groups: CEPAL, Lance Taylor and his team at MIT, and a group of economists based at the Institute of ...
Andrew M. Fischer
wiley   +1 more source

‘reportless places’: Janet Malcolm and Collage

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Natalie Ferris
wiley   +1 more source

Agnosticism about artificial consciousness

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetorical Dualism and the Orthodox/Heterdox Distinction in Economics [PDF]

This paper attempts to combine elements of the approaches of two influential economists, Sheila Dow and Deirdre McCloskey and expands on previous work (2005) on Dow’s concept of dualism.
Andrew Mearman
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The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
wiley   +1 more source

Live and Dead Issues in the Methodology of Economics [PDF]

We attempt to clarify divisions made by us in previous work (Colander et al., 2004a,b) between “orthodox, mainstream, and heterodox” in economics, following very useful remarks in Dequech (2007), whom we thank.
David Colander, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., Richard P.F. Holt   +2 more
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