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Towards silence: Thomas Mofolo, small literatures and poor translation
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2016 In his 2008 Nobel lecture, J. M. G. Le Clézio salutes all the writers with whom he lived, and at times against whom he argued, especially African writers: Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mongo Beti, Alan Paton, with a concluding reference ...
Alain Ricard
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Voting Behind the Veil of Ignorance
A committee consisting of two factions is considering a project whose distributive consequences are unknown. This uncertainty can be resolved at some unknown future time. By delaying approval, the committee can gradually learn which faction benefits from the project.
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British Journal of Psychotherapy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper offers a psychoanalytic critique of the affirmation model in gender identity care, drawing on clinical experience from the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). It argues that institutional and therapeutic responses to gender distress in young people are increasingly shaped by pressures to affirm rather than to ...
Marcus Evans
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Evaluating Real World Income Distributions behind the Veil of Ignorance - How Risk Averse do you have to be to Prefer Europe over the US? [PDF]
The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US ...
Alfons Weichenrieder, Tasneem Zafar
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Economica, EarlyView.Abstract The foundational nature of expectations‐based theories and the prominence of symmetric unimodal stochastic assumptions in economic research render the expected outcome the go to locational focus throughout its many realms. When symmetric unimodality prevails, expected and most likely outcomes are identical; however, when it does not, they are ...
Gordon Anderson
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Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
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Welfare of naive and sophisticated players in school choice [PDF]
Two main school choice mechanisms have attracted the attention in the literature: Boston and deferred acceptance (DA). The question arises on the ex-ante welfare implications when the game is played by participants that vary in terms of their strategic ...
Jose Apesteguia, Miguel A. Ballester
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Critical Review of John Rawls's Theory of Justice with Emphasis on the Scope and Definition of Justice [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2017 It can be claimed that the subject of justice is the basis and the source of different theories as well as affairs management in the arena of human social life. Social science theorists cannot escape from resorting to a concept and theory of justice in
Mohammad Nemati
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Fairness Behind a Veil of Ignorance: A Welfare Analysis for Automated Decision Making [PDF]
, 2018 We draw attention to an important, yet largely overlooked aspect of evaluating fairness for automated decision making systems---namely risk and welfare considerations.
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