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What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what
people are due. However, what that means in practice depends on the
context in which the question is raised. Depending on context, the
formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of
desert, reciprocity, equality, or need. Justice, therefore, is a
constellation of elements that exhibit a degree of integration and
unity. Nonetheless, the integrity of justice is limited, in a way
that is akin to the integrity of a neighborhood rather than that of
a building. A theory of justice offers individuals a map of that
neighborhood, within which they can explore just what elements
amount to justice.
Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the
traditional Left and Right. The Routledge Handbook of
Libertarianism helps readers fully examine this alternative without
preaching it to them, exploring the contours of libertarian
(sometimes also called classical liberal) thinking on justice,
institutions, interpersonal ethics, government, and political
economy. The 31 chapters--all written specifically for this
volume--are organized into five parts. Part I asks, what should
libertarianism learn from other theories of justice, and what
should defenders of other theories of justice learn from
libertarianism? Part II asks, what are some of the deepest problems
facing libertarian theories? Part III asks, what is the right way
to think about property rights and the market? Part IV asks, how
should we think about the state? Finally, part V asks, how well (or
badly) can libertarianism deal with some of the major policy
challenges of our day, such as immigration, trade, religion in
politics, and paternalism in a free market. Among the Handbook's
chapters are those from critics who write about what they believe
libertarians get right as well as others from leading libertarian
theorists who identify what they think libertarians get wrong. As a
whole, the Handbook provides a comprehensive, clear-eyed look at
what libertarianism has been and could be, and why it matters.
This introductory volume is devoted to Robert Nozick, one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Nozick's famous book, Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974), presents the classic defense of the libertarian view that only a minimal state is just. He has made significant contributions to such areas as rational choice theory, ethics, epistemology and philosophy of mind. In addition to philosophers, the book will be of particular interest to professionals and students in political science, law, economics, sociology and psychology. David Schmidtz taught at Yale University and Bowling Green State University before joining the University of Arizona, where he is Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics. His previous books include Environmental Ethics (Oxford), Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (Cambridge, 1998) and Rational Choice and Moral Agency (Princeton). He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
This introductory volume is devoted to Robert Nozick, one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Nozick's famous book, Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974), presents the classic defense of the libertarian view that only a minimal state is just. He has made significant contributions to such areas as rational choice theory, ethics, epistemology and philosophy of mind. In addition to philosophers, the book will be of particular interest to professionals and students in political science, law, economics, sociology and psychology. David Schmidtz taught at Yale University and Bowling Green State University before joining the University of Arizona, where he is Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics. His previous books include Environmental Ethics (Oxford), Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (Cambridge, 1998) and Rational Choice and Moral Agency (Princeton). He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Is moral philosophy more foundational than political theory? It is
often assumed to be. David Schmidtz argues that the reverse is
true: the question of how to live in a community is more
fundamental than questions about how to live. This book questions
whether we are getting to the foundations of human morality when we
ignore contingent features of communities in which political
animals live. Schmidtz disputes the idea that reflection on how to
live needs to begin with timeless axioms. Rather, theorizing about
how to live together should take its cue from contemporary moral
philosophy's attempts to go beyond formal theory, and ask which
principles have a history of demonstrably being organizing
principles of actual thriving communities at their best. Ideals
emerging from such research should be a distillation of social
scientific insight from observable histories of successful
community building. What emerges from ongoing testing in the
crucible of life experience will be path-dependent in detail even
if not in general outline, partly because any way of life is a
response to challenges that are themselves contingent, path
dependent, and in flux. Building on this view, Schmidtz argues that
justice evolved as a device for grounding peace in the mutual
recognition that everyone has their own life to live, and everyone
has the right and the responsibility to decide for themselves what
to want. Justice, he says, evolved as a device for conveying our
mutual intention not to be in each other's way, and beyond that,
our mutual intention to build places for ourselves as contributors
to a community. Any understanding of justice should thus rely not
on untestable intuitions but should instead be grounded in
observable fact.
What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what
people are due. However, what that means in practice depends on the
context in which the question is raised. Depending on context, the
formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of
desert, reciprocity, equality, or need. Justice, therefore, is a
constellation of elements that exhibit a degree of integration and
unity. Nonetheless, the integrity of justice is limited, in a way
that is akin to the integrity of a neighborhood rather than that of
a building. A theory of justice offers individuals a map of that
neighborhood, within which they can explore just what elements
amount to justice.
The issue of social welfare and individual responsibility has become a topic of international public debate in recent years as politicians around the world now question the legitimacy of state-funded welfare programs. David Schmidtz and Robert Goodin debate the ethical merits of individual versus collective responsibility for welfare. David Schmidtz argues that social welfare policy should prepare people for responsible adulthood rather than try to make that unnecessary. Robert Goodin argues against the individualization of welfare policy and expounds the virtues of collective responsibility.
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Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation - 12th International Conference, VMCAI 2011, Austin, TX, USA, January 23-25, 2011 Proceedings (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Ranjit Jhala, David Schmidt
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th
International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and
Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2011, held in Austin, TX, USA, in
January 2011, co-located with the Symposium on Principles of
Programming Languages, POPL 2011. The 24 revised full papers
presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and
selected from 71 initial submissions. The papers showcases
state-of-the-art research in areas such as verification, model
checking, abstract interpretation and address any programming
paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative,
logic and object-oriented programming. Further topics covered are
static analysis, deductive methods, program certification,
debugging techniques, abstract domains, type systems, and
optimization.
Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the
traditional Left and Right. The Routledge Handbook of
Libertarianism helps readers fully examine this alternative without
preaching it to them, exploring the contours of libertarian
(sometimes also called classical liberal) thinking on justice,
institutions, interpersonal ethics, government, and political
economy. The 31 chapters--all written specifically for this
volume--are organized into five parts. Part I asks, what should
libertarianism learn from other theories of justice, and what
should defenders of other theories of justice learn from
libertarianism? Part II asks, what are some of the deepest problems
facing libertarian theories? Part III asks, what is the right way
to think about property rights and the market? Part IV asks, how
should we think about the state? Finally, part V asks, how well (or
badly) can libertarianism deal with some of the major policy
challenges of our day, such as immigration, trade, religion in
politics, and paternalism in a free market. Among the Handbook's
chapters are those from critics who write about what they believe
libertarians get right as well as others from leading libertarian
theorists who identify what they think libertarians get wrong. As a
whole, the Handbook provides a comprehensive, clear-eyed look at
what libertarianism has been and could be, and why it matters.
Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments geben Zeugnis von
unterschiedlichen Konflikten und Krisen unter den frühen
christusgläubigen Gemeinden sowie Versuchen, diese zu bewältigen.
Man ringt um Fragen der rechten Lehre und des rechten Verhaltens;
Auseinandersetzungen erfolgen gegenüber der Umwelt nach außen
oder gegenüber anderen gläubigen Gruppierungen nach innen. In den
Briefen werden diese Konflikte oft direkt ausgetragen und konkrete
Konsequenzen der Jesusnachfolge gefordert, in den Erzähltexten der
Evangelien und der Apostelgeschichte werden die
Auseinandersetzungen häufig stärker in die Interaktion der
Erzählfiguren untereinander eingespielt. Im vorliegenden Band
werden aus einer Vielzahl der neutestamentlichen Schriften
exemplarische Konflikte und Krisen sowie Bewältigungsstrategien
thematisiert und mittels verschiedener methodischer
Herangehensweisen analysiert.
"Creating Wealth: Ethical and Economic Perspectives" is a
collection of classic and contemporary economic and philosophical
readings that explore these questions: How do agents in the
marketplace manage to cooperate? When does such cooperation make
the world a better place? What do agents in the marketplace need to
do in order to succeed? What do they need to do to deserve to
succeed? This text includes an introduction by the author, David
Schmidtz, which gives readers a nontechnical overview of an ethical
framework for evaluating both market behavior and market
institutions. This is an ideal reader for classes in political
philosophy, business ethics, ethics and economics, or contemporary
moral problems. The readings selected for "Creating Wealth" are
organized in seven topical chapters:
Cooperation and Division of LaborTrust and TradeResponsibility and
ExternalitiesMutual Respect and ExploitationSelf-Respect and
AlienationOrder and IncentivesEquality and Mutual Advantage
David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy, Joint Professor
of Economics, and founding Director of the Center for Philosophy of
Freedom at the University of Arizona, which is ranked as tied for
first in the world (along with Harvard and New York University) in
the field of political philosophy by the most recent edition of the
Philosophical Gourmet. David is author of Rational Choice and Moral
Agency (Princeton), Elements of Justice (Cambridge), Person, Polis,
Planet (Oxford), and co-author with Jason Brennan of A Brief
History of Liberty (Blackwell). He also serves on the board of
BASIS High School in Tucson, and collaborates with the Office for
Economic Education at the Norton School of Family and Consumer
Science at the University of Arizona to offer a Master's Degree for
high school economics teachers.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the
19th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS 2012, held in
Deauville, France, in September 2012. The 25 revised full papers
presented together with 4 invited talks were selected from 62
submissions. The papers address all aspects of static analysis,
including abstract domains, abstract interpretation, abstract
testing, bug detection, data flow analysis, model checking, new
applications, program transformation, program verification,
security analysis, theoretical frameworks, and type checking.
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Programming Languages and Systems - 13th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2004, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2004, Barcelona, Spain, March 29 - April 2, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
David Schmidt
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This volume contains the 28 papers presented at ESOP 2004, the 13th
European Symposium on Programming, which took place in Barcelona,
Spain, March 29- 31, 2004. The ESOP series began in 1986 with the
goal of bridging the gap between theory and practice, and the
conferences continue to be devoted to explaining fundamental issues
in the speci?cation, analysis, and implementation of programming
languages and systems. The volume begins with a summary of an
invited contribution by Peter O'Hearn, titledResources,
ConcurrencyandLocalReasoning, andcontinueswith the 27 papers
selected by the Program Committee from 118 submissions. Each
submission was reviewed by at least three referees, and papers were
selected during a ten-day electronic discussion phase. I would like
to sincerely thank the members of the Program Committee, as well as
their subreferees, for their diligent work; Torben Amtoft, for
helping me collect the papers for the proceedings; and Tiziana
Margaria, Bernhard Ste?en, and their colleagues at MetaFrame, for
the use of their conference management software.
By presenting state-of-the-art aspects of the theory of computation, this book commemorates the 60th birthday of Neil D. Jones, whose scientific career parallels the evolution of computation theory itself.The 20 reviewed research papers presented together with a brief survey of the work of Neil D. Jones were written by scientists who have worked with him, in the roles of student, colleague, and, in one case, mentor. In accordance with the Festschrift's subtitle, the papers are organized in parts on computational complexity, program analysis, and program transformation.
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Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics - 9th International Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA, April 7 - 10, 1993. Proceedings (Paperback, 1994 ed.)
Stephen Brookes, Michael Main, Austin Melton, Michael Mislove, David Schmidt
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This volume is the proceedings of the Ninth International
Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming
Semantics, held in New Orleans in April 1993. The focus of the
conference series is the semantics of programming languages and the
mathematics which supports the study of the semantics. The
semantics is basically denotation. The mathematics may be
classified as category theory, lattice theory, or logic. Recent
conferences and workshops have increasingly emphasized applications
of the semantics and mathematics. The study of the semantics
develops with the mathematics and the mathematics is inspired by
the applications in semantics. The volume presents current research
in denotational semantics and applications of category theory,
logic, and lattice theory to semantics.
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Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics - 7th International Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, March 25-28, 1991. Proceedings (Paperback, 1992 ed.)
Stephen Brookes, Michael Main, Austin Melton, Michael Mislove, David Schmidt
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This volume contains the proceedings of the Seventh International
Conferenceon the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics,
held at Carnegie Mellon University, March 1991. The conference
continued a series of annual meetings, alternating between workshop
and conference formats, intended to bring together computer
scientists and mathematicians for discussion of research problems,
results and directions in programming language semantics and
related areas. A major goalof the series is to improve
communication and interaction between researchers in these areas
and to establish ties between related areas of research. The volume
contains revised and refereed versions of each of the contributed
papers and refereed papers by three invited speakers: Jon Barwise,
John Reynolds, and Mitchell Wand.
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Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics - 3rd Workshop Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, April 8-10, 1987 Proceedings (Paperback, 1988 ed.)
Michael Main, Austin Melton, Michael Mislove, David Schmidt
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This volume is the proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the
Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics held at
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 8-10, 1987. The
1st Workshop was at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas in
April, 1985 (see LNCS 239), and the 2nd Workshop with a limited
number of participants was at Kansas State in April, 1986. It was
the intention of the organizers that the 3rd Workshop survey as
many areas of the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language
Semantics as reasonably possible. The Workshop attracted 49
submitted papers, from which 28 papers were chosen for
presentation. The papers ranged in subject from category theory and
Lambda-calculus to the structure theory of domains and power
domains, to implementation issues surrounding semantics.
David Schmidt uberpruft, ob der molekulare Schaltmechanismus, der
kurzlich in Connexin 26 als rotameres Glu47 mit Fixierung an Lys188
identifiziert wurde, uber Aminosaurenaustauschexperimente auf den
Kaliumkanal KcsA ubertragen werden kann. Die Untersuchung
struktureller und funktioneller Einflusse der Punktmutationen
erfolgte mittels unterschiedlicher Methoden, darunter die Analyse
des Schmelzverhaltens mittels SDS-Gel und spektroskopischer
Methoden wie der konfokalen Raman-Mikroskopie oder der
Microarray-Technologie. Transporteigenschaften von KcsA und
Connexin 26 konnten zudem mittels eines Liposom-Transportassays in
Abhangigkeit des pH-Wertes sowie dem Vorhandensein von Inhibitoren
untersucht werden.
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