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Occupy Wall Street, Distributive Justice, and Tax Scholarship: An Ideology Critique of the Consumption Tax Debate [PDF]

, 2014
[Excerpt] “This Article argues that the pro-consumption tax literature is wrong to claim that no legitimate fairness objections to the consumption tax exist.
Crawford, Partrick
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The Pigou-Dalton Principle and the Structure of Distributive Justice [PDF]

, 2013
The Pigou-Dalton (PD) principle recommends a non-leaky, non-rank-switching transfer of goods from someone with more goods to someone with less. This Article defends the PD principle as an aspect of distributive justice --- enabling the comparison of two ...
Adler, Matthew D.
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Humean Scepticism and Moral Philosophy [PDF]

, 1999
James Allan’s book A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law (New York, Peter Lang, 1998) is an interesting and first–rate attempt of using a humean theory as a model for a contemporary sceptical view in ethics and philosophy of law.
Baccarini, Elvio
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Is Equal Protection a Language Game?

Angles, 2016
The purpose of this contribution is to provide an insight into the semantics of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution as interpreted by the US Supreme Court, how it has been submitted to the vagaries of context and ...
Anne-Marie O’Connell
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Análise da concepção de Nagel acerca do absurdo da vida humana

Revista Trágica
O artigo apresenta os argumentos avançados por Nagel em “The absurd” (1971) para justificar a asserção de que a vida humana é absurda ou destituída de sentido, partindo inicialmente da ideia de que o absurdo envolve sempre uma discrepância entre ...
Anamar Moncavo
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Force distributions near the jamming and glass transitions

, 2000
We calculate the distribution of interparticle normal forces $P(F)$ near the glass and jamming transitions in model supercooled liquids and foams, respectively.
A. J. Liu, A. V. Tkachenko, Andrea J. Liu, B. Widom, C. Eloy, C. Thornton, C.-h. Liu, Corey S. O'Hern, D. Howell, D. J. Durian, D. J. Durian, D. J. Durian, D. M. Mueth, D. N. Perera, F. Radjai, G. Løvoll, H. A. Makse, H. M. Jaeger, J. E. S. Socolar, J. G. Powles, L. L. Lee, M. D. Ediger, M. L. Nguyen, M. P. Allen, P. Claudin, P. Dantu, P.-G. de Gennes, S. A. Langer, S. Alexander, S. Luding, S. N. Coppersmith, S. Tewari, Sidney R. Nagel, Stephen A. Langer, T. Kustanovich, T. Kustanovich, W. Kob   +36 more
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The Mind-Body Problem [PDF]

, 1999
The mind-body problem is the problem of explaining how our mental states, events and processes—like beliefs, actions and thinking—are related to the physical states, events and processes in our bodies.
Crane, Tim
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Does Naturalism Make Room for Teleology? The Case of Donald Crosby and Thomas Nagel [PDF]

, 2019
Mikael Leidenhag
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Racionalidade e natureza humana na visão da epistemologia evolutiva

Princípios, 2010
A epistemologia evolutiva é uma corrente que tenta explicar o conhecimento humano em conformidade com a descriçáo feita dele pelas ciências biológicas.
José Claudio Morelli Matos
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Boston University Choral Ensembles, February 21, 2003 [PDF]

, 2003
This is the concert program of the Boston University Choral Ensembles performance on Friday, February 21, 2003 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue.
School of Music, Boston University
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