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Rethinking The Special Equity Rule For Wives: Post Garcia, Quo Vadis, Where To From Here?, Charles Chew
Rethinking The Special Equity Rule For Wives: Post Garcia, Quo Vadis, Where To From Here?, Charles Chew
Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)
The operation of the special equity principle can be seen where a wife does not understand the nature and effect of the guarantee she is induced to sign by the husband whereupon the transaction may be set aside. It should be remembered that women often become involved in these guarantees because of the existence of a personal relationship rather than because of any real appreciation of the legal relationship created. Credit providers such as banks involve women in this kind of ‘sexually transmitted debt’, ‘emotional debt’ or ‘relationship debt’ as a means of countering debtor default or to compensate for …
Review: Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique Of Folk Psychology, Theory Of Mind And Simulation, Daniel Hutto
Review: Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique Of Folk Psychology, Theory Of Mind And Simulation, Daniel Hutto
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Ask nearly any analytic philosopher of mind how we understand intentional actions performed for reasons and you are bound to be told that we do so by deploying mental concepts, such as beliefs and desires, in systematic ways. This way of making sense of actions is known as commonsense or folk psychology (or CSP or FP for short). There have been many interesting debates about CSP over the years. These have focused on questions including: How fundamental and universal is this practice? Which species engage in it? What mechanisms underwrite the competence? How is the ability acquired? And, what exactly …