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Boubacar Boris Diop au post-colonial? Editions et tendances au Sénégal aujourdhui - Small, A.
Les critiques postcoloniaux anglophones se félicitent aujourdhui de lengagement
accru quils perçoivent chez leurs collègues francophones avec le postcolonialisme et la
théorie postcoloniale ; et depuis une dizaine dannées plusieurs textes et colloques ont
témoigné de la fécondité de ces engagements qui promettent douvrir de nouvelles pistes
de recherche et de collaboration internationales. Nous voilà à loccasion du colloque de
Tamanrasset, par contre, réunis pour un débat qui pose plutôt la question de "sortir du
postcolonial", donc soit den finir avec le postcolonial pour de bon, soit de nous replacer
au sortir du postcolonial. Est-il donc question de rouvrir le débat jamais clos sur les fairepart
respectives de...
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The Basic Structure as Object: Institutions and Humanitarian Concern (draft) - Wenar, Leif
[FIRST PARAGRAPHS]
One third of the human species is infested with worms. The World Health
Organization estimates that worms account for 40 percent of the global disease burden
from tropical diseases excluding malaria. Worms cause a lot of misery.
In this article I will focus on one particular type of infestation, which is
hookworm. Approximately 740 million people suffer from hookworm infection in areas
of rural poverty: more than one human in ten, a total greater than 23 times the population
of Canada or twice the population of the United States. The greatest numbers of cases
occur in China, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africathat is, mostly in the...
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Responsibility and Severe Poverty (draft) - Wenar, Leif
[FIRST PARAGRAPHS] Human rights define the most fundamental responsibilities of those who hold power. In the
case of the Nazi officials, or those who ordered the Rwandan massacres, we do not need a
theory to tell us who was responsible for human rights being violated. The violators were
those who authorized and carried out the atrocities, who failed monumentally in their duties
toward their victims.
The subject of this volume presents a more troubling question: Who, if anyone, is
morally responsible for acting to alleviate severe poverty? Here our convictions are much less
steady. Are impoverished people responsible for improving their own condition? Or are the
leaders of...
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Accountability in International Development Aid (draft) - Wenar, Leif
Contemporary movements for the reform of global institutions advocate greater
transparency, greater democracy, and greater accountability. Of these three, accountability is the
master value. Transparency is valuable as means to accountability: more transparent institutions
reveal whether officials have performed their duties. Democracy is valuable as a mechanism of
accountability: elections enable the people peacefully to remove officials who have not done
what it is their responsibility to do. Accountability, it has been said, is the central issue of our
time.
The focus of this paper is accountability in international development aid: that range of
efforts sponsored by the worlds rich aimed at permanently bettering the conditions of the
worlds...
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Responsibility and Severe Poverty (draft) - Wenar, Leif
Human rights define the most fundamental responsibilities of those who hold power. In the
case of the Nazi officials, or those who ordered the Rwandan massacres, we do not need a
theory to tell us who was responsible for human rights being violated. The violators were
those who authorized and carried out the atrocities, who failed monumentally in their duties
toward their victims.
The subject of this volume presents a more troubling question: Who, if anyone, is
morally responsible for acting to alleviate severe poverty? Here our convictions are much less
steady. Are impoverished people responsible for improving their own condition? Or are the
leaders of their countries...
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An Index of Child Well-being in the European Union - Bradshaw, Jonathan; Hoelscher, Petra; Richardson, Dominic
While the living conditions of children and young people in the European Union have gained increasing recognition across the EU, the well-being of children is not monitored on the European level. Based on a rights-based, multi-dimensional understanding of child well-being we analyse data already available for the EU 25, using series data as well as comparative surveys of children and young people. We compare the performance of EU Member States on eight clusters with 23 domains and 51 indicators and give a picture of childrens overall well-being in the European Union. The clusters are childrens material situation, housing, health, subjective...
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Fichte and Hegel on Recognition - Clarke, James
In this paper I provide an interpretation of Hegels account of recognition (Anerkennung) in the 1802-3 System of Ethical Life as a critique of Fichtes account of recognition in the 1796-7 Foundations of Natural Right. In the first three sections of the paper I argue that Fichtes account of recognition in the domain of right is not concerned with recognition as a moral attitude. I then turn, in section four, to a discussion of Hegels critique and transformation of Fichtes conception of recognition. Hegels transformation consists, I argue, in the claim that a comprehensive account of recognition in the domain...
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The teaching of philosophy in the UK - MacDonald Ross, G.
FIRST AND SECOND PARAGRAPH
In order to give an account of the teaching of philosophy in schools in the UK (which is in fact very limited), I need to explain how the UK educational system is organised. By the end of my brief explanation, I am sure my francophone readers will consider terms such as system and organised to be wholly inappropriate descriptions.
First, we must distinguish between public schools and state schools. Public schools are sometimes described as private schools, because they charge fees and are independent of the state. This looks like a contradiction, because private and public are opposites....
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Killing John to save Mary: a defence of the moral distinction between killing and letting die - Frowe, H.
Introduction
This paper defends the moral significance of the distinction between killing and letting die. In the first part of the paper, I consider and reject Michael Tooleys argument that initiating a causal process is morally equivalent to refraining from interfering in that process. The second part disputes Tooleys suggestion it is merely external factors that make killing appear to be worse than letting die, when in reality the distinction is morally neutral. Tooley is mistaken to claim that we are permitted to kill bystanders who had no fair chance to avoid being at risk of harm. We can support the...
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The Role of Transcendental Idealism in Kant's Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment - Ward, Andrew
A defence of the view that the introduction of transendental idealism, in the Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment, plays a central role in resolving the antinomy which, as Kant contends, exists in our pure judgments of taste. It is further argued that the link that he holds to exist between the realms of nature and morality (or freedom) can only be successfully made out if transcendental idealism is accepted as underpinning our judgments concerning the beauties of nature.
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Structure, Bonding and Morphology of Hydrothermally-Synthesised Xonotlite - Black, Leon; Garbev, Krassimir; Stumm, Andreas
We have systematically investigated the role of synthesis conditions upon the structure and morphology of xonotlite. Starting with a mechanochemically-prepared, semi-crystalline phase with Ca:Si = 1, we have prepared a series of xonotlite samples hydrothermally, at temperatures between 200 and 250°C. Analysis in each case was by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Our use of a much lower water/solid ratio has indirectly confirmed the through-solution mechanism of xonotlite formation, where silicate dissolution is a key precursor of xonotlite formation. Concerning the role of temperature, too low a temperature (<200oC) fails to yield...
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On a property of minimal triangulations - Kratsch, D.; Müller, H.
A graph H has the property MT, if for all graphs G, G is H-free if and only if every minimal (chordal) triangulation of G is H-free. We show that a graph H satisfies property MT if and only if H is edgeless, H is connected and is an induced subgraph of P5, or H has two connected components and is an induced subgraph of 2P3.
This completes the results of Parra and Scheffler, who have shown that MT holds for H=Pk, the path on k vertices, if and only if k5 [A. Parra, P. Scheffler, Characterizations and algorithmic applications of...
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Back to basics: what is the e-journal? - Cole, Louise
As we move further into the first decade of a new century, it seems a good point to reflect on where the e-journal has come from, the position it is at now, and where it might be going in the immediate and long-term future. My concern within this article is to look backwards and forwards and consider this revolution in serials publishing, and the impact it has had on different user groups from the traditional academic audience to the general internet-savvy population.
This article will therefore be structured in the following way: first, I will be looking at the birth of...
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Character, global and local - Webber, J.
Philosophers have recently argued that we should revise our understanding of character. An
individuals behaviour is governed not by a set of global traits, each elicited by a certain kind of situational
feature, but by a much larger array of local traits, each elicited by a certain combination of situational features.
The data cited by these philosophers supports their theory only if we conceive of traits purely in terms of
stimulus and response, rather than in the more traditional terms of inner mental items such as inclinations. We
should not adopt the former conception, since doing so would impede pursuit of the ethical aims for...
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Practitioners documentation of assessment and care planning in social care : the opportunities for organizational learning - Foster, M.; Harris, J.; Jackson, K.; Glendinning, C.
This paper analyses practitioners documentation of social care assessments and care plans for disabled adults of working age. The data were collected in the course of an innovative project that introduced new outcome-focused documentation into routine social care assessment, care management and review processes. The project aimed to encourage practitioners to focus during these processes on the full range of outcomes that individual disabled adults might seek to achieve; and identify the appropriate services for realizing those outcomes. Analysis of the new documentation provides insights into the diverse range of priorities and outcomes that service users aspire to achieve as...
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Men at work and at home: managing emotion in telework - Marsh, K.; Musson, G.
Home-based telework is one of the flexible working options available today and is unique in its ability to physically and emotionally blur the boundaries between work and home. This paper explores how men experience working from home, how they construct their identities as workers and as parents in this ambiguous location, and how, as fathers, they manage the emotional work of reconciling family and career in this context. Our findings suggest that in order to manage the emotional aspects of telework men will, at times, focus on either the professional or parental part of their identity in their narratives, and...
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Modelling argument recognition and reconstruction - Katzav, J.; Reed, C.
A growing body of recent work in informal logic investigates the process of argumentation. Among other things, this work focuses on the ways in which individuals attempt to understand written or verbalised arguments in light of the fact that these are often presented in forms that are incomplete and unmarked. One of its aims is to develop general procedures for natural language argument recognition and reconstruction. Our aim here is to draw on this growing body of knowledge in informal logic in order to take preliminary steps towards developing an architecture for computer systems that are able to recognise and...
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Multiple actualities and ontically vague identity - Williams, J.R.G.
Gareth Evans's argument against ontically vague identity has been picked over on many occasions. But extant proposals for blocking the argument do not meet well-motivated general constraints on a successful solution. Moreover, the pivotal position that defending ontically vague identity occupies vis a vis ontic vagueness more generally has not yet been fully appreciated. This paper advocates a way of resisting the Evans argument meeting all the mentioned constraints: if we can find referential indeterminacy in virtue of ontic vagueness, we can get out of the Evans argument while still preserving genuinely ontically vague identity. To show how this approach...
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Conversation and conditionals - Williams, J.R.G.
I outline and motivate a way of implementing a closest world theory of indicatives, appealing to Stalnakers framework of open conversational possibilities. Stalnakerian conversational dynamics helps us resolve two outstanding puzzles for a such a theory of indicative conditionals. The first puzzleconcerning so-called reverse Sobel sequencescan be resolved by conversation dynamics in a theory-neutral way: the explanation works as much for Lewisian counterfactuals as for the account of indicatives developed here. Resolving the second puzzle, by contrast, relies on the interplay between the particular theory of indicative conditionals developed here and Stalnakerian dynamics. The upshot is an attractive resolution of...
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