'To do justice and judgement' : the place of passion in public life

Please consult the paper edition of this thesis to read. It is available on the 5th Floor of the Library at Call Number: Z 9999 P65 F47 2003

Levando as capacidades a sério : a perspectiva de Martha Nussbaum para o desenvolvimento das mulheres

O propósito deste trabalho é apresentar algumas das mais controversas questões da teoria das capacidades de Martha Nussbaum. Ela sugere que sua abordagem deve ser usada como base para princípios fundamentais e políticos voltados para as mulheres dos países em desenvolvimento. Desta forma, no primeiro capítulo, foram delineados os conceitos da teoria de Nussbaum. Depois de descrever a versão de Nussbaum sobre a abordagem das capacidades, o diálogo da autora com Amartya Sen foi apresentado, pois estes possuem visões particulares sobre a idéia de capacidades. No terceiro capítulo, o debate de Nussbaum com os relativistas culturais revelou o lado universal de sua teoria. A lista de capacidades de Nussbaum busca fornecer o suporte filosófico para a implementação de princípios constitucionais básicos que devem ser respeitados por todas as nações, como o mínimo que o respeito à dignidade humana requer. Por conta disso, este trabalho tentou também descobrir porque Nussbaum nega a importância do welfarismo subjetivo. No último capítulo desta dissertação, foram apresentados os debates de Nussbaum com Judith Butler, Susan Moller Okin e Alison Jaggar porque eles revelam diferentes pontos de vista e conclusões sobre a teoria das capacidades de Nussbaum.

La virtud aristotélica de la compasión a la base de la construcción de lazos sociales en el estado. Discusiones en torno a la recepción del planteo antiguo por parte de Martha Craven-Nussbaum

Se trata de abordar el tratamiento que Aristóteles realiza de la compasión tratando de mostrar la complejidad que ese concepto comporta cuando se lo pone en relación con las categorías de virtud y con la de frónesis -como se sabe- centrales en su reflexión. Trazado el bosquejo del concepto en Aristóteles, se abordará la redefinición actual de la compasión por parte de Martha Nussbaum, con la pretensión de recuperar su valor desde una posición liberal de raigambre rawlsiana. En el planteo de Nussbum se destaca la recuperación y puesta en valor político de aspectos cognitivos y afectivos que conforman las condiciones subjetivas del orden institucional

La virtud aristotélica de la compasión a la base de la construcción de lazos sociales en el estado. Discusiones en torno a la recepción del planteo antiguo por parte de Martha Craven-Nussbaum

Se trata de abordar el tratamiento que Aristóteles realiza de la compasión tratando de mostrar la complejidad que ese concepto comporta cuando se lo pone en relación con las categorías de virtud y con la de frónesis -como se sabe- centrales en su reflexión. Trazado el bosquejo del concepto en Aristóteles, se abordará la redefinición actual de la compasión por parte de Martha Nussbaum, con la pretensión de recuperar su valor desde una posición liberal de raigambre rawlsiana. En el planteo de Nussbum se destaca la recuperación y puesta en valor político de aspectos cognitivos y afectivos que conforman las condiciones subjetivas del orden institucional

La virtud aristotélica de la compasión a la base de la construcción de lazos sociales en el estado. Discusiones en torno a la recepción del planteo antiguo por parte de Martha Craven-Nussbaum

Se trata de abordar el tratamiento que Aristóteles realiza de la compasión tratando de mostrar la complejidad que ese concepto comporta cuando se lo pone en relación con las categorías de virtud y con la de frónesis -como se sabe- centrales en su reflexión. Trazado el bosquejo del concepto en Aristóteles, se abordará la redefinición actual de la compasión por parte de Martha Nussbaum, con la pretensión de recuperar su valor desde una posición liberal de raigambre rawlsiana. En el planteo de Nussbum se destaca la recuperación y puesta en valor político de aspectos cognitivos y afectivos que conforman las condiciones subjetivas del orden institucional

Columbia University contributions to philosophy and psychology.

Volume numbers irregular: v. 14, no. 3 repeated; v. 15, no. 1 omitted; v. 16, no. 1 called v. [blank] no. 4; v. 17, no. 4 called v. 17, no. 3; v. 10, no. 1 [a] called v. 18, no. 1; v. 23 omitted.

Princeton contributions to philosophy

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Energy systems contributions in 2,000 m race simulation: a comparison among rowing ergometers and water

This study investigated the energy system contributions of rowers in three different conditions: rowing on an ergometer without and with the slide and rowing in the water. For this purpose, eight rowers were submitted to 2,000 m race simulations in each of the situations defined above. The fractions of the aerobic (W(AER)), anaerobic alactic (W(PCR)) and anaerobic lactic (W([La-])) systems were calculated based on the oxygen uptake, the fast component of excess post-exercise oxygen uptake and changes in net blood lactate, respectively. In the water, the metabolic work was significantly higher [(851 (82) kJ] than during both ergometer [674 (60) kJ] and ergometer with slide [663 (65) kJ] (P <= 0.05). The time in the water [515 (11) s] was higher (P < 0.001) than in the ergometers with [398 (10) s] and without the slide [402 (15) s], resulting in no difference when relative energy expenditure was considered: in the water [99 (9) kJ min(-1)], ergometer without the slide [99.6 (9) kJ min(-1)] and ergometer with the slide [100.2 (9.6) kJ min(-1)]. The respective contributions of the WAER, WPCR and W[La-] systems were water = 87 (2), 7 (2) and 6 (2)%, ergometer = 84 (2), 7 (2) and 9 (2)%, and ergometer with the slide = 84 (2), 7 (2) and 9 (1)%. (V) over dotO(2), HR and lactate were not different among conditions. These results seem to indicate that the ergometer braking system simulates conditions of a bigger and faster boat and not a single scull. Probably, a 2,500 m test should be used to properly simulate in the water single-scull race.

Entomological contributions in memory of Byron A. Alexander / edited by George W. Byers, Robert H. Hagen and Robert W. Brooks.

no.24 (1999)

Policy Options for New Student Contributions in Higher Education - Report to the Minister

The Government’s Framework for Sustainable Economic Renewal- Building Ireland’s Smart Economy, launched by the Taoiseach in late 2008, establishes Ireland’s ambition to become internationally renowned as an Innovation Island. At the core of achieving this ambition will be our capacity for producing highly skilled graduates and fostering a climate of creative thinking and advanced research and development. This relies on the quality of undergraduate provision right across the sciences, arts and humanities in our third level institutions. The development of a new national strategy for higher education is now underway. The strategy will aim to identify a vision and objectives for the development of the sector over the next twenty years. Leading higher education systems internationally are characterised by wide revenue sources that, in many cases, include a form of direct student contribution through a tuition fee or student loans system. If Ireland’s higher education system is to develop and meet future demands in an environment of increasingly tight public resources, then it is appropriate that the sector’s level of dependence on Exchequer funding should come under review.

New Avenues for Theoretical Contributions in Enterprise Architecture Principles - A Literature Review

Enterprise Architecture (EA), which has been approached by both academia and industry, is considered comprising not only architectural representations, but also principles guiding architecture's design and evolution. Even though the concept of EA principles has been defined as the integral part of EA, the number of publications on this subject is very limited and only a few organizations use EA principles to manage their EA endeavors. In order to critically assess the current state of research and identify research gaps in EA principles, we focus on four general aspects of theoretical contributions in IS. By applying these aspects to EA principles, we outline future research directions in EA principles nature, adoption, practices, and impact.

The effect of tax enforcement on tax elasticities: Evidence from charitable contributions in France

Optimal tax formulas expressed in "sufficient statistics" are usually calibrated under the assumptionthat the relevant tax elasticities are unaffected by other available policy instruments.In practice though, tax authorities have many more instruments than the mere tax rates andtax elasticities are functions of all these policy instruments. In this paper we provide evidencethat tax elasticities are extremely sensitive to a particular policy instrument: the level of taxenforcement. We exploit a natural experiment that took place in France in 1983, when the taxadministration tightened the requirements to claim charitable deductions. The reform led to asubstantial drop in the amount of contributions reported to the administration, which can becredibly attributed to overreporting of charitable contributions before the reform, rather thanto a real change in giving behaviours. We show that the reform was also associated with asubstantial decline in the absolute value of the elasticity of reported contributions. This findingallows us to partially identify the elasticity of overreporting contributions, which is shown tobe large and inferior to -2 in the lax enforcement regime. We further show using bunching oftaxpayers at kink-points of the tax schedule that the elasticity of taxable income also experienceda significant decline after the reform. Our results suggest that optimizing the tax rate fora given tax elasticity when other policy instruments are not optimized can lead to misleadingconclusions when tax authorities have another instrument that could set the tax elasticity itselfat its optimal level as in Kopczuk and Slemrod [2002].

Analysis of bulk and surface contributions in the neutron skin of nuclei

The neutron skin thickness of nuclei is a sensitive probe of the nuclear symmetry energy and has multiple implications for nuclear and astrophysical studies. However, precision measurements of this observable are difficult to obtain. The analysis of the experimental data may imply some assumptions about the bulk or surface nature of the formation of the neutron skin. Here we study the bulk or surface character of neutron skins of nuclei following from calculations with Gogny, Skyrme, and covariant nuclear mean-field interactions. These interactions are successful in describing nuclear charge radii and binding energies but predict different values for neutron skins. We perform the study by fitting two-parameter Fermi distributions to the calculated self-consistent neutron and proton densities. We note that the equivalent sharp radius is a more suitable reference quantity than the half-density radius parameter of the Fermi distributions to discern between the bulk and surface contributions in neutron skins. We present calculations for nuclei in the stability valley and for the isotopic chains of Sn and Pb.