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Reflections on Complexity, Evidence, and Law
Ratio Juris, EarlyView.Abstract The pursuit of knowledge in many disciplines is undergoing a transformation from standard reductionist efforts popularly captured by “the scientific method” to embracing the framework of complexity theory and complex adaptive systems. That framework is invaluable to understand both the law of evidence and the nature of the American legal ...
Ronald J. Allen
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ANTHROPOLOGY AND INSANITY [PDF]
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1922 n ...
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Legal Methodology and Complexity: A Comment on Allen
Ratio Juris, EarlyView.Abstract This article is a response to Ronald J. Allen's “Reflections on Complexity, Evidence, and Law.” I begin by analyzing three key concepts that Allen employs in his argument: reductionism, emergence, and complexity. On the basis of this analysis, I question Allen's criticism of the reductionist approach that, according to him, legal scholarship ...
Michele Ubertone
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Denial and misinformation in defense of the tar sands: The case of a Canadian think tank
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Literatures within the sociology of science and environmental sociology often focus on climate change denial, misinformation, and the role of think tanks in fueling public skepticism. This work draws our attention to the arguments these organizations make and how they communicate doubt to the public.
Timothy J. Haney
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Serendipity or strategy? The college housing search and inequality
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Housing arrangements provide the foundation for social life and interaction in college. However, we know little about how students locate housing opportunities. This study contributes to the literature on housing, search strategies, and class inequality during college by examining how students search for housing.
Virginia Riel, Olivia G. Ball
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Valis: A quintessentially Phildickian novel [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2019 The journeys of the protagonist of Philip K. Dick's novel Valis across different personalities, points in time, and realities become a penetrating exploration of the very fabric of the real through his heteromorphic cosmogony that can serve as a paradigm
Jakovljević Mladen M.
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Coercive animal labour is often state sanctioned as an ecologically friendly mode of sand mining, based on anthropocentric environmental ideology that sees animal bodies as solutions or fixes for often human‐caused environmental crises, even as, incrementally, it causes extreme ecological destruction.
Yamini Narayanan
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«EN DEHORS DES MURS». POUR UNE HISTOIRE RENOUVELÉE DES INSTITUTIONS DE LA FOLIE À L’ÉPOQUE CONTEMPORAINE [PDF]
S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2015 Following the 1961 famous works by Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman (A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason and Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates), many historians have considered that the ...
Fauvel, Aude
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The history of insanity as a defence for criminal activity in Massachusetts [PDF]
, 1946 Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1946.
Bodge, Marjorie Holbrook
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