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A Weighty Issue: Finding the Balance Between Justice and Mercy in the Classroom
, 2011 Considering the conundrum educators face with administering ethical decisions concerning their students, the author discusses the options of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, which utilize rationalism to adjudicate decisions requiring issues of equity ...
Givens, Ruth
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Rational Divisors in Rational Divisor Classes [PDF]
, 2004 We discuss the situation where a curve \(\mathcal{C}\), defined over a number field K, has a known K-rational divisor class of degree 1, and consider whether this class contains an actual K-rational divisor. When \(\mathcal{C}\) has points everywhere locally, the local to global principle of the Brauer group gives the existence of such a divisor.
Bruin, N, Flynn, E
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Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract War is often viewed as a bargaining problem. However, prior to bargaining, countries can vie for leverage by expending effort on diplomacy. This article presents a dynamic model of conflict where agenda‐setting power is endogenous to pre‐bargaining diplomatic competition.
Joseph J. Ruggiero
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“For REASON […] is nothing but Reckoning” : the Postulates of Hobbes’s and Descartes’s Rationalism
Revue LISA, 2014 Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes are contemporary authors whose rationalistic approach means to emancipate science from theology. Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) and Descartes’s Discours de la méthode (1637) expound a method which is supposed to account for ...
Jean-Marc Chadelat
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How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
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Creator or Tool? (To the Consciousness Origin) [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2017 The problem of subjective consciousness genesis is investigated: whether is it a product of creatively conceiving brain or of transcendental consciousness, external in relation to a brain. The consciousness is considered from positions of rationalism (in
Vladimir Gukhman
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Politics in robes? The European Court of Justice and the myth of judicial activism [PDF]
What characterizes the EU today is that it is not only a multi-level governance system, but also a multi-context system. The making of Europe does not just take place on different levels within the European political framework, executed by different ...
Grimmel, Andreas
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How to Imagine Educational AI: The Filling of a Pail or the Lighting of a Fire?
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract Recent advances in artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, generative AI) have led to increased interest in its application in educational settings. AI companies hope to revolutionize teaching and learning by tailoring material to the individual needs of students, automating parts of teachers' jobs, or analyzing educational data to ...
Michał Wieczorek, Alberto Romele
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The Implications of Accession for Waste Policies and Industrial Practices : Hungary and the European Union [PDF]
, 2004 The hope that prevailed immediately after the collapse of state socialism was that Eastern Europe's environmental pollution would be "swept away by democracy and economic rationality." While with time such expectations have become more modest, some of ...
Gille, Zsuzsa
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Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract The tendency to silence higher education teachers and students around the globe who express opinions that others regard as wrong is increasing. This lack of interest in listening to, and at times silencing, people with opposing views raises the question of what makes higher education unique and worth protecting.
Silvia Edling
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