Title:On Pain and the Privation Theory of Evil
Author(s):SAMET, IritDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper argues that pain is not a good counter-example to the privation theory of evil. Objectors to the privation thesis see pain as too real to be accounted for in privative terms. However, the properties for which ...
Title:On the Meta-ethical Status of Constructivism: Reflections on G. A. Cohen’s ‘Facts and Principles’
Author(s):RONZONI, Miriam; VALENTINI, LauraDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In his article `Facts and Principles', G.A. Cohen attempts to refute constructivist approaches to justification by showing that, contrary to what their proponents claim, fundamental normative principles are fact-insensitive. ...
Title:On the Meta-Ethical Status of Constructivism: Reflections on G.A. Cohen's 'Facts and Principles'
Author(s):RONZONI, Miriam; VALENTINI, LauraDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In his article 'Facts and Principles', G.A. Cohen attempts to refute constructivist approaches to justification by showing that, contrary to what their proponents claim, fundamental normative principles are fact-insensitive. ...
Title:Pan-European Pension Funds: Current Situation and Future Prospects
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The competitive pressures arising from European economic integration increasingly challenge the territorial sovereignty of national welfare states. This generates the need to situate domestic social security schemes amid ...
Title:Perpetual What? Injury, sovereignty, and a cosmopolitan view of immigration
Author(s):VALDEZ, InésDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Can Kantian cosmopolitanism contribute to normative approaches to immigration? Kant developed the universal right to hospitality in the context of late eighteenth-century colonialism. He claimed that non-European countries ...
Title:Policy Concertation, Europeanization and New Political Cleavages: the Case of Switzerland
Author(s):AFONSO, AlexandreDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article investigates the impact of Europeanization on corporatist policy concertation by emphasizing the mediation of political cleavages.The analysis shows that in Switzerland, Europeanization has tended to strengthen ...
Title:Protecting European law from international law
Author(s):LAVRANOS, NikolaosDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This contribution analyses the relationship between international law and Community law in the light of two recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) cases on Article 307 EC, that is, the Kadi and bilateral investment treaties ...
Title:The Refoundation of Symmetric Equilibrium in Schumpeterian Growth Models
Author(s):COZZI, Guido; GIORDANI, Paolo; ZAMPARELLI, LucaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We provide a refoundation of the symmetric growth equilibrium characterizing the research sector of vertical R&D-driven growth models. We argue that the usual assumptions made in this class of models leave the agents ...