Author: Melissa Schwartzberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521198232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Examines the history underlying the use of supermajority voting rules and offers a critique of their ability to remedy the defects of majority decision making.
Counting the Many
Author: Melissa Schwartzberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521198232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Examines the history underlying the use of supermajority voting rules and offers a critique of their ability to remedy the defects of majority decision making.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521198232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Examines the history underlying the use of supermajority voting rules and offers a critique of their ability to remedy the defects of majority decision making.
Reasoning
Author: Anthony Simon Laden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191631302
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Thinking about reasoning suffers from a failure of vision. Philosophers, social scientists, and others who discuss and analyze reasoning have a particular activity in view: reasoning to figure things out, solve problems, and reach judgments. But there is a different activity we engage in that we call reasoning. We reason in the course of living together, when we are responsive to those with whom we live and neither commanding nor deferring to them, neither manipulating nor ignoring them. Analysis of this second kind of activity has relied on the tools and frameworks developed to make sense of the first kind of activity. In this book, Anthony Simon Laden invites his readers to approach this activity of reasoning on its own terms. He claims that if we are to truly see and appreciate the role and value of reasoning in living together, we need a new, social picture of the activity of reasoning. According to the social picture of reasoning developed here, reasoning is a species of conversation, and like casual conversation is social and ongoing. It is neither defined nor determined by its end, although it is governed by a set of characteristic norms. It consists of inviting others to accept that our words can speak for them as well. Reasoning: A Social Picture proposes an attractive new approach to thinking about how to live together, reasonably.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191631302
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Thinking about reasoning suffers from a failure of vision. Philosophers, social scientists, and others who discuss and analyze reasoning have a particular activity in view: reasoning to figure things out, solve problems, and reach judgments. But there is a different activity we engage in that we call reasoning. We reason in the course of living together, when we are responsive to those with whom we live and neither commanding nor deferring to them, neither manipulating nor ignoring them. Analysis of this second kind of activity has relied on the tools and frameworks developed to make sense of the first kind of activity. In this book, Anthony Simon Laden invites his readers to approach this activity of reasoning on its own terms. He claims that if we are to truly see and appreciate the role and value of reasoning in living together, we need a new, social picture of the activity of reasoning. According to the social picture of reasoning developed here, reasoning is a species of conversation, and like casual conversation is social and ongoing. It is neither defined nor determined by its end, although it is governed by a set of characteristic norms. It consists of inviting others to accept that our words can speak for them as well. Reasoning: A Social Picture proposes an attractive new approach to thinking about how to live together, reasonably.
Will Your Vote Count?
Author: Herma Percy Ph.D.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Voters in a democratic society should have confidence in the electoral process. Yet, as Americans have witnessed in every election since 2000, voting-the basic act of citizenship—is under assault: technologically complex, subject to manipulation, and fiercely contested on many levels. Documenting the areas of collapse in the American electoral process, this book analyzes ongoing problems in the casting and counting of ballots, as well as new threats: future elections could be compromised by new voting machines that are unreliable, poorly programmed, and prone to tampering. At this critical moment for American democracy, the author issues a call for urgently needed reforms.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Voters in a democratic society should have confidence in the electoral process. Yet, as Americans have witnessed in every election since 2000, voting-the basic act of citizenship—is under assault: technologically complex, subject to manipulation, and fiercely contested on many levels. Documenting the areas of collapse in the American electoral process, this book analyzes ongoing problems in the casting and counting of ballots, as well as new threats: future elections could be compromised by new voting machines that are unreliable, poorly programmed, and prone to tampering. At this critical moment for American democracy, the author issues a call for urgently needed reforms.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The North American Review
Author: Jared Sparks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
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ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Journal of Social Science, Containing the Proceedings of the American Association
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung
Author: Craig Stephenson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000785904
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Winner of the 2023 Gradiva Award for 'Best Book'! The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung centres on two pivotal meetings: Victoria Ocampo and Hermann von Keyserling’s in 1929, and Ocampo and Carl Gustav Jung’s in 1934. The first section of the book chronicles these encounters, which proved to be key moments in the lives of the players and had repercussions both private and public. The later sections consist of the correspondence and other writings that preceded and followed these meetings, translated from French, German, and Spanish, much of it for the first time. Jung framed Keyserling’s account of the encounter with Ocampo as "one of the most beautiful animus-anima stories I have ever heard." But that story, told here from the three points of view of the pioneering Argentine intellectual, the Baltic German philosopher, and the Swiss founder of analytical psychology, can also be read in the contexts of early-twentieth-century feminism and of gender and sexual politics, of the colonizing European gaze on the Americas, of Argentina and its cultural complexes, of typological impasses, and of Eros and the power of words. The fraught relationships and power dynamics among three influential figures will be of interest to analytical psychologists, historians of psychological disciplines and of South America, as well as general readers.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000785904
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Winner of the 2023 Gradiva Award for 'Best Book'! The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung centres on two pivotal meetings: Victoria Ocampo and Hermann von Keyserling’s in 1929, and Ocampo and Carl Gustav Jung’s in 1934. The first section of the book chronicles these encounters, which proved to be key moments in the lives of the players and had repercussions both private and public. The later sections consist of the correspondence and other writings that preceded and followed these meetings, translated from French, German, and Spanish, much of it for the first time. Jung framed Keyserling’s account of the encounter with Ocampo as "one of the most beautiful animus-anima stories I have ever heard." But that story, told here from the three points of view of the pioneering Argentine intellectual, the Baltic German philosopher, and the Swiss founder of analytical psychology, can also be read in the contexts of early-twentieth-century feminism and of gender and sexual politics, of the colonizing European gaze on the Americas, of Argentina and its cultural complexes, of typological impasses, and of Eros and the power of words. The fraught relationships and power dynamics among three influential figures will be of interest to analytical psychologists, historians of psychological disciplines and of South America, as well as general readers.
Theology You Can Count On
Author: Tony Evans
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 1575673967
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1783
Book Description
"For many people the word theology suggests seminary-educated scholars who sit in ivory towers, isolated from the real world, studying the Bible. Such study is often viewed as esoteric and unrelated to the world where men and women live, work, play, raise families, and struggle with the realities of day-to-day life. Nothing could be further from the truth." ---Tony Evans What we think about God, also known as theology, influences what we believe, do, and say. And what we think, whether true or false, makes a big difference in real life. Tony Evans wants you to know the truth about God, so Theology You Can Count On communicates truths about God in language you can understand. He walks through what the Bible teaches, topic by topic, truth by truth. The great thing is, these truths aren't reserved for people with PhDs. They're for real life. They're for you.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 1575673967
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1783
Book Description
"For many people the word theology suggests seminary-educated scholars who sit in ivory towers, isolated from the real world, studying the Bible. Such study is often viewed as esoteric and unrelated to the world where men and women live, work, play, raise families, and struggle with the realities of day-to-day life. Nothing could be further from the truth." ---Tony Evans What we think about God, also known as theology, influences what we believe, do, and say. And what we think, whether true or false, makes a big difference in real life. Tony Evans wants you to know the truth about God, so Theology You Can Count On communicates truths about God in language you can understand. He walks through what the Bible teaches, topic by topic, truth by truth. The great thing is, these truths aren't reserved for people with PhDs. They're for real life. They're for you.
Memoir of Count de Montalembert, Peer of France, Deputy for the Department of Doubs a Chapter of Recent French History
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Count Robert of Paris. Castle Dangerous. My Aunt Margaret's mirror. The tapestried chamber. Death of the Laird's Jock
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description