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Rogues: Two Essays on Reason

James Liner
- Vol. 40, pp 187-190
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What Is a Question

TL;DR: In this paper, the lattice structure of the space of assertions and questions is examined, and it is shown that the symmetries between the logical relations in each of the spaces derive directly from lattice structures.
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Between Decision and Deliberation: Political Paradox in Democratic Theory

TL;DR: Benhabib and Habermas as discussed by the authors examine the promise and limits of these various efforts by way of a third paradox: Rousseau's paradox of politics, whose many workings are traced through Book II, Chapter 7 of the Social Contract.
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Migration management for the benefit of whom? Interrogating the work of the International Organization for Migration

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between the nation-state and migration through the activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and found that the IOM enforces the exclusions of asylum seekers and maintains the central role of nation-states in ordering global flows of migration.
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The Inclusion of the Other?: Habermas and the Paradox of Tolerance

Lasse Thomassen
- 01 Aug 2006 - 
TL;DR: The authors argue that Habermas is ultimately unable to provide a rational foundation for tolerance and that his conception of tolerance encounters the same problems he is trying to avoid, namely, the contingency of the threshold of tolerance and a paternalistic relation between tolerating and tolerated.
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Democratic Business Ethics: Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal and the Disruption of Corporate Sovereignty

TL;DR: The case of the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal was used as an illustrative example of corporate business ethics as a form of organizing that acts as a subterfuge to facilitate the expansion of corporate sovereignty.
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“Higher than Actuality” – The Possibility of Phenomenology in Heidegger

TL;DR: In this article, a schematic analysis of Heidegger's notion of "possibility" is presented, and the methodological significance of the notion of possibility in phenomenology is considered.

Her voice has life: the myth of echo in psychoanalysis and deconstruction, and the acoustic vision of a new subjectivity

TL;DR: In particular, without the help and friendship of Greg Lotze, this project would not have been possible as discussed by the authors, and the assistance of the administrative staff of the Louisiana State University Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, especially Margaret Toups, was invaluable for navigating the murky depths of the LSU bureaucracy.
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Believing in the USA: Derrida, Melville and the Great American Charlatan

TL;DR: The authors considers the relationship between the prophet and the charlatan, particularly as they figure in the contemporary American political landscape, and argues that at moments of democratic po-tation, the prophet can be seen as a defender of the truth.
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Can Non-Europeans Philosophize? Transnational Literacy and Planetary Ethics in a Global Age

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the ambivalent legacies of the European Enlightenment for the post-colonial world, with special focus on the “Syrian refugee crisis,” and highlight the enduring normative violence exerted by Enlightenment principles of cosmopolitanism and outlines the contested terrains that inflect current geopolitics of knowledge-production.

Towards a Poetics of Possibility: Critical Spirituality as a Resource for Framing Sustainable Futures

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of sustainable futures that incorporate this element of the 'beyond', a critical and spiritual dimension, in order to expand our thinking about sustainability and human adaptive capacity is presented.