Title:Success Chances in Argument Games: A Probabilistic Approach to Legal Disputes
Author(s):RIVERET, Régis; ROTOLO, Antonino; SARTOR, Giovanni; PRAKKEN, Henry; ROTH, BramDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The outcome of a legal dispute, namely, the decision of its adjudicator, is uncertain, and both parties develop
their strategies on the basis of their appreciation of the probability that the adjudicator will accept
their ...
Title:Successes in Social Protection: What lessons can be learned?
Author(s):GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; DE HAAN, Arjan; SABATES-WHEELER, Rachel; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The recent food, fuel and financial crises have triggered innovation in social protection programmes around the world. Existing evidence suggests that such programmes both protect people from shocks and enable them to ...
Title:Suffering as a Political Situation: A Phenomenological Approach
Author(s):GATTA, GiuniaDate:2010-10-22Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper I argue that, despite resistance by many to its incorporation into public discourse, suffering is a constitutive element of politics today, both a consequence of and a motive for political action. I consider ...
Title:A Sufficientist Approach to Reasonableness in Legal Decision-Making and Judicial Review
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I shall argue for a sufficientist understanding of reasonableness in legal decision-making: cognitive or moral optimality are not required for reasonableness; what needed is just that a determination—be it epistemic or ...
Title:Sulla maschera
Author(s):PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:All'inizio degli anni '50, nella vivacissima Parigi postbellica, il Alessandro Pizzorno vive una stagione di ineguagliate esperienze culturali che spaziano dall'antropologia agli studi sulla musica, la danza, la tragedia ...
Title:Sulla sociologia italiana. Un dibattito
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This short article comments upon a broad debate on the status of sociology in Italy, locating it in cross-national and cross-disciplinary perspective.