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In Search Of An “Action Principle”, Patrick J. Glen
In Search Of An “Action Principle”, Patrick J. Glen
Human Rights & Human Welfare
In his seminal work on the history of scientific development, Thomas Kuhn described the structure of that development as revolutionary in nature, occurring at that point in time “in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible one.” The impetus for this paradigm shift is malfunction—“scientific revolutions are inaugurated by a growing sense … that an existing paradigm has ceased to function adequately in the exploration of an aspect of nature to which that paradigm itself had previously led the way…. [T]he sense of malfunction that can lead to crisis is prerequisite to revolution.” …
Cosmopolitan Law—And Cruelty— On Trial, Matthew S. Weinert
Cosmopolitan Law—And Cruelty— On Trial, Matthew S. Weinert
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Law against Genocide: Cosmopolitan Trials by David Hirsh. London: Cavendish/Glasshouse, 2003. 183pp.