The Deliberative Democrat's _Idea of Justice_
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The Deliberative Democrat’s Idea of Justice In his recent book The Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen has made democracy central to his theory of justice. If he is right, then justice is in practice going to be hard to come by without democracy. Yet as it stands Sen’s treatment of democracy is inadequate…
The aim of natural language semantics
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Abstract: What is the aim of semantic theorizing? What form should a semantic theory take? What constraints must a semantic theory meet? What sort of phenomena must such a theory explain? These are questions that philosophers struggled with at the time of the early development of natural language…
Knowledge How and the Possibility of Intelligent Action
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What is intelligence, and what is it to act intelligently (skillfully, sensibly, rationally, wisely, etc.)? This paper articulates and defends general intellectualist answers to these questions. Opposition to intellectualism is often motivated by Ryle's argument that intellectualism entails an…
In Honest Officials We Trust: Institutional Confidence in Europe
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The present article analyzes trust in public institutions. In both theoretical literature and empirical research, a link between social trust and institutional trust has been established. The present paper casts additional light on this relationship. Moreover, it tests whether institutional trust…