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Rush Rhees"s Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse constitutes both an extension and a critique of Wittgenstein"s later philosophy. The theme of the book is the question that Rhees argues was central to Wittgenstein throughout his career: what it
Ashdown, Lance
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Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly
ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
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Desmod Lee (ed.). "Wittgenstein 's Lectures - Cambridge, 1930-1932." Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 1980. Wittgenstein's Lectures - Cambridge, 1932-1935. Ed. by AUce Ambrose, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Magdalena Holguín
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The inversion of the relationship between opinion and action and its political consequences; Emphasizing the views of Wittgenstein and Michael Oakeshott [PDF]
The history of political thought has always been influenced by a definite view on the relationship between theory and political practice. Based on this point of view, opinion has precedence over action and thus every political action needs to follow a ...
Mohsen Jamshidi, Ehsan Kazemi
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Review of The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker (2008) (review revised 2019) [PDF]
I start with some famous comments by the philosopher (psychologist) Ludwig Wittgenstein because Pinker shares with most people (due to the default settings of our evolved innate psychology) certain prejudices about the functioning of the mind, and ...
Starks, Michael
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“A Practice of Fairness”: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City
ABSTRACT Social justice is often theorized as fairness and expressed in equity as part of public administration and associated budgeting practices. Whereas much literature contrasted deontological positions, emphasizing a procedural justice with fairness based on rules, with consequentialist theory that emphasizes a distributional justice based on ...
Laurence Ferry, Thomas Ahrens
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Reliable estimates for differences in life expectancy (LE) by socio-economic position (SEP), that can be assessed in an international context and are comprehensive in terms of considering different SEP dimensions, are missing for the German population so
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Macdonald Before Quine on Truth by Convention
ABSTRACT I show that Margaret Macdonald anticipated Quine's well‐known criticisms of logical conventionalism in her unpublished 1934 PhD thesis, but that she later developed her criticisms in a direction distinct from that of Quine under the influence of Wittgenstein. Macdonald rejected as senseless the suggestion that statements of logical truth admit
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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The aim of this article is to present a method of creating deontic logics as axiomatic theories built on first-order predicate logic with identity. In the article, these theories are constructed as theories of legal events or as theories of acts.
Andrzej Malec
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