Bridges.Troy R. E.Paddock -2010 -Environment, Space, Place 2 (2):9-27.detailsCentral to Martin Heidegger’s critique of modern technology is the transformation of “things” into “objects.” This article will apply some of the insights gained by Actor-Network-Theory to the several bridges in Budapest, with a special focus on the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, in order to argue that modern technology and the creations of that technology can also be “things” in the Heideggerian sense of the term. The result is a view of bridges that is firmly grounded in the physical and geographic (...) impact that bridges can have on space and place. The use of ANT also reveals that Heidegger and one of his main critics, Bruno Latour, arenot as far apart in their thought as the latter might contend. (shrink)
Ecoscapes: Geographical Patternings of Relations.Gary Backhaus,John Murungi,Jose-Hector Abraham,Azucena Cruz,Benjamin Hale,Jessica Hayes-Conroy,John E. Jalbert,Eduardo Mendieta,TroyPaddock,Christine Petto,Dennis E. Skocz &Alex Zukas (eds.) -2006 - Lexington Books.detailsThis volume presents the concept of Ecoscape as spatial interrelations, or spatially patterned processes, that are constitutive of an environment_an ecosystem. Contributors investigate environmental issues concerning the human impact on geohistory, food distribution, genetically modified biota, waste management, scientific mapping, and the rethinking of human identity.
Notes on the Oresteia.E. R. Dodds -1953 -Classical Quarterly 3 (1-2):11-.detailsThis line has been thought corrupt by most editors, though there is no agreement on the remedy. The Herald is plainly asking why the people at home are despondent: picks up the Chorus's phrase . But as Wilamowitz says, ‘ de populo aut senatu Argivorum accipi non potest’: it can only mean the army atTroy, as in lines 538 and 545. The usual inference is that arparw is corrupt.
Innovative Stakeholder Relations: When “Ethics Pays” (and When it Doesn’t).Troy R. Harting,Susan S. Harmeling &S. Venkataraman -2006 -Business Ethics Quarterly 16 (1):43-68.detailsAbstract:Business ethicists are eager to connect the ethical treatment of stakeholders with financial rewards. However, little attention has been paid to the cultural and industry context that influences how stakeholders are regarded by the firm, and how innovative strategies for engaging stakeholders can help a firm outperform its competitors. By reconnecting stakeholder theory to its roots in the field of strategy, we provide a framework for understanding the dynamic interplay between stakeholder relationships, innovation, and competitive advantage. The result is a (...) set of testable propositions aimed at better characterizing when and how “ethics pays” (Paine 2003). (shrink)
Toward the development of a multidimensional scale for improving evaluations of business ethics.R. E. Reidenbach &D. P. Robin -1990 -Journal of Business Ethics 9 (8):639 - 653.detailsThis study represents an improvement in the ethics scales inventory published in a 1988 Journal of Business Ethics article. The article presents the distillation and validation process whereby the original 33 item inventory was reduced to eight items. These eight items comprise the following ethical dimensions: a moral equity dimension, a relativism dimension, and a contractualism dimension. The multidimensional ethics scale demonstrates significant predictive ability.
Argumentation and evidence.R. E. G. Upshur &Errol Colak -2003 -Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 24 (4):283-299.detailsThis essay explores the role of informal logicand its application in the context of currentdebates regarding evidence-based medicine. This aim is achieved through a discussion ofthe goals and objectives of evidence-basedmedicine and a review of the criticisms raisedagainst evidence-based medicine. Thecontributions to informal logic by StephenToulmin and Douglas Walton are explicated andtheir relevance for evidence-based medicine isdiscussed in relation to a common clinicalscenario: hypertension management. This essayconcludes with a discussion on the relationshipbetween clinical reasoning, rationality, andevidence. It is argued that (...) informal logic hasthe virtue of bringing explicitness to the roleof evidence in clinical reasoning, and bringssensitivity to understanding the role ofdialogical context in the need for evidence inclinical decision making. (shrink)
Oxford Handbook of Law & Politics.Keith E. Whittington,R. Daniel Kelemen &Gregory A. Caldeira (eds.) -2010 - Oxford University Press UK.detailsThe study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between political science and other cognate disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the field of law and politics in all its diversity, ranging from such traditional subjects as theories of jurisprudence, constitutionalism, judicial politics and law-and-society to such re-emerging subjects as comparative (...) judicial politics, international law, and democratization. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics gathers together leading scholars in the field to assess key literatures shaping the discipline today and to help set the direction of research in the decade ahead. (shrink)
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The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam.Randall E. Auxier,Lewis E. Hahn &Douglas R. Anderson -2016 - Chicago, IL, USA: Open Court.detailsLibrary of Living Philosophers volume on Hilary Putnam with critical essays, Putnam's autobiography and his replies.
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Plato's Parmenides.R. E. Allen -1997 - Duke University Press.detailsIn this book, R.E. Allen provides a translation of the 'Parmenides' along with a structural analysis that procedes on the assumption that formal elements, logical and dramatic, are important to its interpretation and that the argument of the Parmenides is aporetic, a statement of metaphysical perplexities.
On the Clarification of System Levels.R. E. Zimmermann -2014 -Constructivist Foundations 10 (1):60-62.detailsOpen peer commentary on the article “The Circular Conditions of Second-order Science Sporadically Illustrated with Agent-based Experiments at the Roots of Observation” by Manfred Füllsack. Upshot: I follow the general tenor of Füllsack’s target article but I have some basic reservations as to the utilization of the thermodynamics involved.
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Teaching Equals Indoctrination: The Dominant Epistemic Practices of Our Schools.R. E. Young -1984 -British Journal of Educational Studies 32 (3):220 - 238.details. Teaching equals indoctrination: The dominant epistemic practices of our schools. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 220-238.
Current epistemological problems in evidence based medicine.R. E. Ashcroft -2004 -Journal of Medical Ethics 30 (2):131-135.detailsEvidence based medicine has been a topic of considerable controversy in medical and health care circles over its short lifetime, because of the claims made by its exponents about the criteria used to assess the evidence for or against the effectiveness of medical interventions. The central epistemological debates underpinning the debates about evidence based medicine are reviewed by this paper, and some areas are suggested where further work remains to be done. In particular, further work is needed on the theory (...) of evidence and inference; causation and correlation; clinical judgment and collective knowledge; the structure of medical theory; and the nature of clinical effectiveness. (shrink)
The moral status of the corporation.R. E. Ewin -1991 -Journal of Business Ethics 10 (10):749 - 756.detailsCorporations are moral persons to the extent that they have rights and duties, but their moral personality is severely limited. As artificial persons, they lack the emotional make-up that allows natural persons to show virtues and vices. That fact, taken with the representative function of management, places significant limitations on what constitutes ethical behavior by management. A common misunderstanding of those limitations can lead ethical managers to behave unethically and can lead the public to have improper expectations of corporations.