Still critical after all these years? The past, present and future of
... in the intellectual history, including history of international thought, even if these developments are often not self-consciously part of the tradition of critical IR theory.11 This interest crosses the Atlantic as well as involving philosophers, lawyers and political theorists from outside the stu ...
... in the intellectual history, including history of international thought, even if these developments are often not self-consciously part of the tradition of critical IR theory.11 This interest crosses the Atlantic as well as involving philosophers, lawyers and political theorists from outside the stu ...
Turning the Given into a Question
... and inscribe the absent, the fluid, and the processual into the order of thought. Representation articulates a desire to "fix", "control", to "act from a distance" (Latour), to "unfold the manifold onto a flat plane" (p.146) in order to make it calculable, sayable, manipulable and thereby amenable t ...
... and inscribe the absent, the fluid, and the processual into the order of thought. Representation articulates a desire to "fix", "control", to "act from a distance" (Latour), to "unfold the manifold onto a flat plane" (p.146) in order to make it calculable, sayable, manipulable and thereby amenable t ...
order, the rule of law and moral norms
... As we have learned from evolutionary game theory, anonymous pairwise interactions among agents are generally not conducive to the sustained presence of "nice traits" in the population. Biased pairing of individuals following some cultural or geographical segmentation could, of course, solve the prob ...
... As we have learned from evolutionary game theory, anonymous pairwise interactions among agents are generally not conducive to the sustained presence of "nice traits" in the population. Biased pairing of individuals following some cultural or geographical segmentation could, of course, solve the prob ...
`Wretched of Canada`: Aboriginal Peoples and Neo
... Likewise, the internal colonial model, as a derivative of dependency theory, fails to grasp the nuanced social hierarchies within colonized populations. In other words, internal colonial theorists, like dependency theorists, homogenize both colonial and colonized groups and nations, thereby falsely ...
... Likewise, the internal colonial model, as a derivative of dependency theory, fails to grasp the nuanced social hierarchies within colonized populations. In other words, internal colonial theorists, like dependency theorists, homogenize both colonial and colonized groups and nations, thereby falsely ...
Scott Moss and Bruce Edmonds: Towards Good Social Science
... the entire class of explanations constituting good science explain phenomena we observe without distorting or contradicting the conditions in which we observe them. Where an explanation does not apply directly to a set of conditions because, following Hollis and Nell and Cartwright, its ceteris pari ...
... the entire class of explanations constituting good science explain phenomena we observe without distorting or contradicting the conditions in which we observe them. Where an explanation does not apply directly to a set of conditions because, following Hollis and Nell and Cartwright, its ceteris pari ...
Michal Kobialka - Universiteit Utrecht
... the perception of the archive as the general system of the formation and transformation of statements, as Foucault suggested, will reveal not only the stagings of power in and of the archive, but also what Derrida called the secrets of the archive: presence, the proper, the archon, the unconscious, ...
... the perception of the archive as the general system of the formation and transformation of statements, as Foucault suggested, will reveal not only the stagings of power in and of the archive, but also what Derrida called the secrets of the archive: presence, the proper, the archon, the unconscious, ...
Something Fishy with Game Theory
... allows us to say why we observe one set of norms rather than another. (In this case, for example, why do norms restrict choice to encourage sharing rather than simply abolishing choice to guarantee it?) It seems we cannot get away from connected questions about how these action/norm systems are crea ...
... allows us to say why we observe one set of norms rather than another. (In this case, for example, why do norms restrict choice to encourage sharing rather than simply abolishing choice to guarantee it?) It seems we cannot get away from connected questions about how these action/norm systems are crea ...
Decision Theory, Philosophical Perspectives
... Subjective probability connects decision theory with the beliefs of the agent. Similarly, utilities connect decision theory with the desires of the agent. An agent’s strong desire for an outcome can be understood in terms of the agent assigning a high utility to that outcome. So we see that decision ...
... Subjective probability connects decision theory with the beliefs of the agent. Similarly, utilities connect decision theory with the desires of the agent. An agent’s strong desire for an outcome can be understood in terms of the agent assigning a high utility to that outcome. So we see that decision ...
The Agent-Structure Debate Most social sciences, political science
... variable” and explaining the behaviour of the state “could entail taking into account factors at all of these levels of analysis. In his book International Politics KJ Holsti (1988) argues that any model, conceptual framework or framework of analysis is crated to help improve understanding of the fi ...
... variable” and explaining the behaviour of the state “could entail taking into account factors at all of these levels of analysis. In his book International Politics KJ Holsti (1988) argues that any model, conceptual framework or framework of analysis is crated to help improve understanding of the fi ...
for behavioral economics organizations: the organization as
... "The recent interest in behavioral economics is a delayed response to the lessons of Carnegie school" (Williamson, 2002) It generally presents theories of organization according to different schools, in fact the program of Carnegie (Cyert, March, Simon) is taken by all. We are therefore faced with a ...
... "The recent interest in behavioral economics is a delayed response to the lessons of Carnegie school" (Williamson, 2002) It generally presents theories of organization according to different schools, in fact the program of Carnegie (Cyert, March, Simon) is taken by all. We are therefore faced with a ...
agent-based computational economics
... mainly the Anglophone African Countries and was also restricted to literature printed in English language. It is therefore estimated that probably over 250 macro-economic models of African economies may have existed us at 1985 and the number may have grown much higher since then (Soludo, 1994; 1998) ...
... mainly the Anglophone African Countries and was also restricted to literature printed in English language. It is therefore estimated that probably over 250 macro-economic models of African economies may have existed us at 1985 and the number may have grown much higher since then (Soludo, 1994; 1998) ...
Understanding and Challenging Culture Shock
... This information may help diminish negative stereotypes and give some confidence. The disposition to judge others in terms of one’s own cultural expectations (ethnocentrism) is diminished if we have some predeparture, culture-specific knowledge. Each of us can develop our own coping strategies. Like ...
... This information may help diminish negative stereotypes and give some confidence. The disposition to judge others in terms of one’s own cultural expectations (ethnocentrism) is diminished if we have some predeparture, culture-specific knowledge. Each of us can develop our own coping strategies. Like ...
The ghosts of the past: 20years after the fall of communism in
... between the local and the Western, the past and the present, where history and politics meet with the contingent effects. The two critical debates on the deterministic role of theory in post-communist studies offer a post-structuralist perspective of interpretation of history. By introducing the categ ...
... between the local and the Western, the past and the present, where history and politics meet with the contingent effects. The two critical debates on the deterministic role of theory in post-communist studies offer a post-structuralist perspective of interpretation of history. By introducing the categ ...
Here - Dissent Magazine
... of the limitations of liberalism which as an egalitarian economic ethic has exhausted itself and no longer serves as an appropriate foundation for critiquing inequality. Contemporary liberalism ‘has come to privilege possessive individualism over its previous thrust of economic autonomy’ (p. 181) an ...
... of the limitations of liberalism which as an egalitarian economic ethic has exhausted itself and no longer serves as an appropriate foundation for critiquing inequality. Contemporary liberalism ‘has come to privilege possessive individualism over its previous thrust of economic autonomy’ (p. 181) an ...