Title:Systems in Context: On the Outcome of the Habermas/Luhmann-debate
Author(s):KJAER, PoulDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Usually regarded as a 1970s phenomenon, this article demonstrates that the debate between Jürgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann continued until Luhmann’s death in 1998, and that the development of the two theorists’ positions ...
Title:Technology and Metaphors: From Cyberspace to Ambient Intelligence
Author(s):GOMES DE ANDRADE, Norberto NunoDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses the metaphorical imaginative discourse created around the various inventions and technical breakthroughs in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), focussing namely in the ...
Title:Teleological Justification of Argumentation Schemes
Author(s):WALTON, Douglas; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Argumentation schemes are forms of reasoning that are fallible but correctable within a self-correcting framework. Their use provides a basis for taking rational action or for reasonably accepting a conclusion as a tentative ...
Title:The Affordability of Energy: How Much Protection for the Vulnerable Consumers?
Author(s):BARTL, MarijaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Affordability is a new 'alien' concept penetrating the field of contract and consumer law as one of the obligations related to the provision of 'universal services' or 'public service' in the context of services of general ...
Title:The effects of the Lisbon Treaty on the principles and objectives of the Common Commercial Policy
Author(s):DIMOPOULOS, AngelosDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Lisbon Treaty brings significant changes to the orientation of the Common Commercial Policy (CCP), affecting the principles and objectives that guide the exercise of EU competence in this field. Building upon the EC ...