Jesse Prinz's The Emotional Construction of Morals is an ambitious and intriguing contribution to the debate about the nature and role of emotion within moral psychology. I review Prinz's recent claims surrounding the nature of emotional concepts as ?embodied representations of concern? and survey his later arguments meant to establish a form of cultural relativism. Although I suggest that other theories of emotional representation (i.e. prototype views) would better serve Prinz's aims, the underlying meta-ethical relativism that results is well defended (...) and represents a significant advance for constructivist Sentimentalists. (shrink)
Section 1 contains a survey of options in constructing a formal system of dialogue rules. The distinction between material and formal systems is discussed (section 1.1). It is stressed that the material systems are, in several senses, formal as well. In section 1.2 variants as to language form (choices of logical constants and logical rules) are pointed out. Section 1.3 is concerned with options as to initial positions and the permissibility of attacks on elementary statements. The problem of ending a (...) dialogue, and of infinite dialogues, is treated in section 1.4. Other options, e.g., as to the number of attacks allowed with respect to each statement, are listed in section 1.5. Section 1.6 explains the concept of a chain of arguments.From section 2 onward four types of dialectic systems are picked out for closer study: D, E, Di and Ei. After a preliminary section on dialogue sequents and winning strategies, the equivalence of derivability in intuitionistic logic and the existence of a winning strategy (for the Proponent) on the strength of Ei is shown by simple inductive proofs. (shrink)
The notion of epistemic coherence is interpreted as involving not only consistency but also stability. The problem how to consolidate a belief system, i.e., revise it so that it becomes coherent, is studied axiomatically as well as in terms of set-theoretical constructions. Representation theorems are given for subtractive consolidation (where coherence is obtained by deleting beliefs) and additive consolidation (where coherence is obtained by adding beliefs).
leaps and bounds, and some portion of the growth may already be spilling over; most of the immigrants to buffalo in re cent years were canadian. buffalo of fers urban living free of traffic jams and boasts one of the nation’s last under developed stretches of premium wa terfront. During its city of light heyday, when buffalo was the first electrified metropolis, Frank lloyd Wright, Fred erick law olmsted, and other fabled names designed homes and parks. in the lovely (...) Delaware Park area, magnifi cent beaux arts homes sell at exceed ingly low prices compared with homes in elite U.S. cities—or in toronto. So long as the bills keep a foot in the city, they keep alive the dream of a Su per bowl win—a hope that an infusion of loonies (canadian dollars) might sustain. and should the bills win the Super bowl, buffalo will return to na tional prominence. i don’t just think this will happen, i know it will. Gregg Easterbrook is an atlantic contributing editor. (shrink)
Compreende-se, neste trabalho, que a interação entre as formas de poder conhecidas como poder soberano, biopolítica e noopolítica não podem ser subsumidas a uma única forma específica nem ter alguma delas como um paradigma subjacente às demais. São exemplos de tal interação as ações urbanas empreendidas pelo prefeito do Rio de Janeiro no início do século XX, Pereira Passos; assim como as transformações vigentes para adequação da cidade aos grandes eventos, Olimpíadas e Copa do Mundo, e os desalojos do coletivo (...) Guerreiros Urbanos – seja por meio da polícia soberana, seja por meio do poder jurídico de produção da verdade. Estas ações incidem negativamente sobre formas de vida específicas, aquelas dos cortiços, das favelas e das ocupações urbanas, tendo como justificativa o “interesse da cidade”; ou seja, o que é e o que deveria ser a cidade de modos de vida hegemônicas. Portanto, busca-se o entendimento da ação dos poderes, para assim compreender e apoiar as formas tanto de resistência como de invenção e reinvenção de formas de vida na cidade, estejam elas nas favelas ou nas ocupações urbanas. (shrink)
Chemical incarceration -- Restraints and treatment -- On the ground -- Authorization : psychiatric history and law -- Biocarceration -- Transinstitutionalization -- Dreams of escape -- In the present.
Pretende-se investigar aqui a conexáo entre intersubjetividade e normatividade a partir das filosofias do direito de Kant e Fichte. Na primeira parte, levanto a questáo da intersubjetividade jurídico-moral a partir de uma reconsideraçáo sistemática do direito em Kant. Na segunda parte, desenvolvo esta interpretaçáo dentro da própria Rechtslehre . Na terceira parte, investigo a possibilidade de uma leitura da passagem do direito privado ao público capaz de realçar os nexos intersubjetivos como pressupostos para a aplicabilidade do direito. Em seguida, considero (...) como Fichte recorre ao reconhecimento recíproco para dar sustentaçáo à aplicabilidade da racionalidade jurídico-moral kantiana. Finalmente, pretendo indicar, do ponto de vista da validade hipotética do direito, tanto as aporias do modelo fichteano quanto as potencialidades de uma ancoragem intersubjetiva da consciência jurídica. (shrink)
The paper aims at considering Hegel’s concept of right, as it is presented in the Philosophy of Spirit (1805/06). First I attempt to reconstruct the intersubjective ties which ground the development of Hegel’s concept of right in the above-mentioned project of system. Then I present my interpretation for Hegel’s attempt to reformulate the “naturalistic” premises of the contractualist tradition. As it will be shown, my interpretation differs considerably from that defended by Axel Honneth. Finally the paper attempts to compare the (...) discussion of the concept of right in Philosophy of Spirit (1805/06) with the Philosophy of Right (1821). (shrink)
