VOLUME 5(1-2) • 2006
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY
ABSTRACT. The international obligation on states is not to create a perfect system of justice but a system of justice where serious errors are avoided or corrected (Paulsson). Kwiecien presents an approach which illustrates the immanent interrelation between state sovereignty and international law, ..
CHALLENGES FOR IMPLEMENTING HUMAN CAPITAL ANALYSIS IN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS
ABSTRACT. In order for human capital analysis to be effective, companies will need to provide access to securities analysts on human resource management practices so they have valid data on which to base their human capital recommendations (Royal and O'Donnell). Originally developed in the financial..
INVESTMENT DECISIONS AND THE EQUITY ACCOUNTING STANDARD
ABSTRACT. Mittoo examines whether the differences in the US accounting and disclosures requirements relative to those in other countries induce segmentation. Morris and Gordon investigate equity accounting adoption in regulated and unregulated settings. Burchell et al. argue that, in wider social pr..
RAWLS'S ACCOUNT OF LIBERAL BASIC LIBERTIES AND THE GUARANTEES OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
ABSTRACT. The Law of Peoples is an extension of a liberal conception of justice for a domestic regime to a Society of Peoples. International justice applies only if nation states are self-sufficient and states can reach the level of well-ordered peoples with the duty of assistance from the liberal s..
ARE HUMAN RIGHTS UNIVERSAL IN THE LAW OF PEOPLES?
ABSTRACT. Rawls considers and rejects the argument that nonliberal societies are always properly subject to some form of sanctions. The Law of Peoples allows for relatively large inequalities in wealth between peoples; a peoples' being decent will ensure enough equity in distribution of social goods..
QUINE'S REJECTION OF AN ATOMISTIC NOTION OF COGNITIVE MEANING AS A BASIS FOR ANALYTICITY
ABSTRACT. Quine's behaviourism requires the linguist's theoretical constructions to be justified on the basis of objective evidence. The available paradigms in the case of definition either assume prior synonymy relations or else have nothing to do with meaning. No comparison between hypotheses abou..
WHAT DOES THE INDETERMINACY OF TRANSLATION INVOLVE?
ABSTRACT. Quine states that it is part of translation practice to translate others so that they come out believing the same logical laws that we do. Quine claims that manuals for translating one language into another can be set up in divergent ways. Quine writes that his gavagai example has figured ..
QUINE AND THE ONTOLOGY OF MEANING
ABSTRACT. Quine writes that the indeterminacy thesis tells us that right translations can sharply diverge; the indeterminacy of translation shows that the notion of propositions as sentence meanings is untenable. The notions of synonymy, meaningfulness, analyticity, and entailment are connected in i..
QUINE ON COMMUNICATION AND THE RELATION OF LANGUAGE TO THE WORLD
ABSTRACT. Quine claims that even if he had a satisfactory notion of shared content, he would not want to improve it in a positivist spirit as a condition of meaningfulness. Quine oulines the crucial role played by the grammatical particles in our understanding of language. Quine defines stimulus-mea..
CARTWRIGHT ON THE LAWS IN PHYSICS AS CETERIS PARIBUS LAWS
ABSTRACT. Cartwright maintains that the fundamental laws of physics are true in only idealized counterfactual situations; the fundamental laws of physics cannot provide covering law explanations. The success of experimental science vindicate local, context-specific models, rather than general theori..
IS THE PHYSICAL WORLD OUTSIDE OF CONSCIOUSNESS FOR SARTRE?
ABSTRACT. Sartre views the non-positional self-awareness within pre-reflective consciousness as a form of self-consciousness (first-order outer-directed conscious states are also self-conscious states). Sartre offers a notion of the world as a system of objects where meanings and values are organize..
JUSTIFYING SOCIAL NORMS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF ETHICS
ABSTRACT. Autonomy is achieved in virtue of a two-way integration within a person's hierarchy of motivations, intermediate standards and values, and highest principles (Friedman). While moral judgments express attitudes, they are also assertions (Joyce). Human cooperation is largely based on a socia..