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How Inclusive And Accessible Is Your Statement On Inclusion And Accessibility?, Freya M. Mobus Oct 2020

How Inclusive And Accessible Is Your Statement On Inclusion And Accessibility?, Freya M. Mobus

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Holding On: A Community Approach To Autonomy In Dementia, Kit Rempala, Marley Hornewer, Joseph Vukov, Rohan Meda, Sarah Khan Aug 2020

Holding On: A Community Approach To Autonomy In Dementia, Kit Rempala, Marley Hornewer, Joseph Vukov, Rohan Meda, Sarah Khan

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The Legacy Of The Iraq Sanctions Regime Is Alive And Well In Us Foreign Policy Today, Joy Gordon Jun 2020

The Legacy Of The Iraq Sanctions Regime Is Alive And Well In Us Foreign Policy Today, Joy Gordon

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From Knowing To Understanding: Revisiting Consent, Kit Rempala, Marley Hornewer, Joseph Vukov, Rohan Meda, Sarah Khan May 2020

From Knowing To Understanding: Revisiting Consent, Kit Rempala, Marley Hornewer, Joseph Vukov, Rohan Meda, Sarah Khan

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Natural Law In Mencius And Aquinas, Richard Kim May 2020

Natural Law In Mencius And Aquinas, Richard Kim

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The Enduring Lessons Of The Iraq Sanctions, Joy Gordon Apr 2020

The Enduring Lessons Of The Iraq Sanctions, Joy Gordon

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Bci-Mediated Action, Blame, And Responsibility, Joseph Vukov, Kit Rempala Feb 2020

Bci-Mediated Action, Blame, And Responsibility, Joseph Vukov, Kit Rempala

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Recognition And Positive Freedom, David Ingram Jan 2020

Recognition And Positive Freedom, David Ingram

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A number of well-known Hegel-inspired theorists have recently defended a distinctive type of social freedom that, while bearing some resemblance to Isaiah Berlin’s famous description of positive freedom, takes its bearings from a theory of social recognition rather than a theory of moral self-determination. Berlin himself argued that recognition-based theories of freedom are really not about freedom at all (negatively or positively construed) but about solidarity, More strongly, he argued that recognition-based theories of freedom, like most accounts of solidarity, oppose what Kant originally understood to be the essence of positive freedom, namely the setting of volitional ends in accordance …


When Microcredit Doesn’T Empower Poor Women: Recognition Theory’S Contribution To The Debate Over Adaptive Preferences, David Ingram Jan 2020

When Microcredit Doesn’T Empower Poor Women: Recognition Theory’S Contribution To The Debate Over Adaptive Preferences, David Ingram

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This essay proposes recognition theory as a preferred approach to explaining poor women’s puzzling preference for patriarchal subordination even after they have accessed an ostensibly empowering asset: microfinance. Neither the standard account of adaptive preference offered by Martha Nussbaum nor the competing account of constrained rational choice offered by Harriet Baber satisfactorily explains an important variation of what Serene Khader, in discussing microfinance, dubs the self-subordination social recognition paradox. The variation in question involves women who, refusing to reject the combined socio-economic benefits of patriarchal recognition and empowering microfinance, dissemble their subordination to men. In this situation, women experience …