[monochrom] #mRIF: Blixa

2010-08-16 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
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[monochrom] Expert Scientific Testimony in Courts: The Ideal and Illusion of value-free science

2010-08-16 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
The field of law, as a consumer of scientific knowledge, should be of particular interest to those who study science and argue about the role of values in scientific work. In agencies and legislatures (and in administrative and committee hearings), science is used to produce or support

[monochrom] #mRIF: What's happening...

2010-08-16 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
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[monochrom] Institutions progress but human beings don't

2010-08-16 Diskussionsfäden das ende der nahrungskette
Institutions progress but human beings don't, and their capacity for cruelty and violence is infinite. A pessimistic thought, to be sure. But British philosopher Roger Scruton is rather optimistic about pessimism. Indeed, in The Uses of Pessimism he prescribes a dose of that very tendency

Re: [monochrom] Institutions progress but human beings don't

2010-08-16 Diskussionsfäden Martin Schürrer
Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these

[monochrom] Porno-Sonntag, der Tag des Herrn.

2010-08-16 Diskussionsfäden Rainer Fuegenstein
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