Scott Wisor (ANU), "Poverty Measurement: What's Gender Got To Do With It?"
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Poverty measurement is extremely important, but most contemporary measures of poverty are deeply flawed. One major shortcoming of all existing poverty measures is a lack of gender sensitivity, which includes but is not limited to an inability to reveal the gendered distribution of deprivation…
Richard Shapcott (University of Queensland), "Humanitarianism as Beneficence"
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In the context of ‘complex emergencies and military humanism a number of disputes have occurred regarding the nature and purpose of humanitarian action and its relationship to other desirable goals. In particular the emergence of a humanitarian discourse of rights defense and a practice of…
David Ripley (Melbourne), "Revising up: Strengthening classical logic in the face of paradox"
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At first blush, classical logic seems to be incompatible with certain intuitively valid principles. These principles include the T-schema for truth (for liar and curry paradox reasons) and tolerance principles for vague predicates (for sorites paradox reasons). When these principles are added…