Fabre defends a human rights‐focused cosmopolitan theory of peace. One would expect that, given this view, she would be in favour of human rights‐promoting annexations by liberal states. However, she distances herself from this view, adopting the common‐sense view that annexing states ‘act ultra vires’. I argue that her core cosmopolitan view motivates a different and, in principle, much more positive view of four types of annexations. In the course of defending this view, I take a critical look at her (...) appeal to perverse moral incentives and the notion of a cosmopolitan ethos. (shrink)

(1994). Annex: The survey questionnaires. World Futures: Vol. 39, The Evolution of European Identity: Surveys of the Growing Edge A Report by the European Culture Impact Research Consortium (EUROCIRCON), pp. 161-164.

Madame Henri Poincaré, Mesdemoiselles Jeanne, Yvonne et Henriette Poincaré, Monsieur Léon Poincaré ; Monsieur Émile Boutroux de l’Institut, Directeur de la Fondation Thiers, Officier de la Légion d’Honneur et Madame Émile Boutroux ; Monsieur Paul d’Andecy, Chef du Service des Ordres de Bourse à la Banque de France et Madame Paul d’Andecy, Monsieur Maurice d’Andecy, Chef de Division au Crédit Foncier de France, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur et Madame Maurice d’Andecy, Monsieur et Madame S...

Sept. 24, 1901 Chicago Ills. U.S.A.– 6026 Monroe Ave. Chicago University – William R. Harper, President Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics – School of Education Mr. H. Poincaré, Paris France My dear Sir: You have perhaps noticed in Professor André’s book entitled _“Traité d’astronomie stellaire”_ Vol II p. 303 that my discussions of β Lyrae and U Pegasi both seem to point to a concrete confirmation of your excellent work on rotating liquids. I am now curious to see if by (...) computing light curves based upon any of your other theoretical forms—perhaps the apiodal—I may be able to represent the light curves of any other variables. To this end I write to inquire whether you can put into my hands a copy of the paper containing your discussion, or discussions, of your various forms of rotating liquid masses in equilibrium. If you can do so, you will greatly oblige me and help me, perhaps, to accomplish something which may be of interest to you as furnishing tangible proof of the existence in th... (shrink)

Avi Sion's book The Logic of Causation (2010) could not include all relevant tables (which either justified or applied various doctrines in the book), due to their sizes or quantity. These additional tables were made available to interested readers at time of publication in the author's website The Logician. The present 'Annex' collects in one pdf file the numerous original pdf files, to facilitate download. The file is almost 0.5 Gb in size, and contains almost 108,000 pages.

The recent crisis involving the territory of Crimea has been characterized both as a case of wrongful annexation and as one of rightful secession. Territory and competing territorial claims lie at the heart of the normative questions of secession and annexation. Any normative theory of secession or of annexation must therefore address their territorial aspect: It must explain why one agent rather than another has a valid claim to the disputed territory. One of the most interesting, yet (...) controversial, normative accounts of secession has been offered by choice theorists of secession. Choice theorists adopt a rather permissive stance, based on the normative significance of political self-determination. Choice theories, however, have been widely criticized for failing to provide a satisfactory account of what legitimates the seceding group’s territorial claim. This article argues that it is possible to remedy choice theories’ failure to address the question of territorial justification adequately. To do so, this article offers a two-tier account of territory that is grounded in the normative significance of self-determination. It defends this account of territory by showing that it is implied by our normative condemnation of annexation. It argues that the same reasons that warrant opposition to annexation provide support for secession. In closing, this article revisits the case of Crimea in light of its two-tier account of territory, and considers what role international law and institutions might play in addressing this type of situation. (shrink)

Certain aspects of time physics were considered within the framework of quantum cosmology of the closed universe. Based on the general relativity we know that total energy of the closed universe is precisely equal to zero. This fact allows interpreting the creation of the closed universe as a spontaneous, causeless occurrence of respective quantum fluctuation, without any energy input. However, in such a universe the unitary evolution is “frozen”—no changes may occur, i.e. the universal cosmic time, which numbers the changes (...) in the state of the universe, cannot exist. This conclusion is obviously contrary to the experiment. For this reason the changes observed in the closed universe may be generated solely by non-unitary, irreversible and jumpwise evolution, associated with quantum measurement, which cannot be caused by any element of reality liable to linear laws of quantum theory. Therefore, quantum cosmology does not generate a closed thinking system. In consequence, this leads to an ontology called objective idealism. (shrink)

Trouvant son origine dans un workshop organisé par Robert Brisart à l?Université de Luxembourg le 12 juin 2009, ce recueil de textes reflète, avant toutes choses, la volonté des contributeurs de mettre sur le tapis certaines questions philosophiques devenues, au fil de discussions animées, des sujets de préoccupations communes et récurrentes. En un sens ou dans un autre, l?expérience et l?empirisme en forment l?enjeu principal. Plus spécialement, la question était de savoir en quel sens et à quelles conditions la perception (...) peut être dite intentionnelle, comment l?expérience, au-delà des simples affects sensoriels, représente . Dans cette optique, l?espoir de l?éditeur est que les cinq essais présen­tés ici contribueront sensiblement, par l?analyse conceptuelle et histo­rique mais aussi par des prises de position nouvelles, à clarifier et à affiner un certain nombre de distinctions qui sont au centre de débats nourris dans la philosophie d?aujourd?hui, en particulier la distinction entre contenu senso­riel et acte intentionnel, la distinction entre concept et percept, celle entre le donné et le construit. Les auteurs et l?éditeur dédient les travaux qui suivent à la mémoire du professeur Paul Gochet, disparu le 21 juin dernier alors que le présent numéro était en préparation. Puisse-t-il trouver ici un hommage à son admirable ?uvre scientifique et à sa bienveillance sans failles. Sommaire. Présentation. (shrink)

Traduction de [Twardowski 1927, 446–447] Thèses formulées d’après la conférence intitulée : Le Concept d’imputabilité pénale à la lumière de la psychologie, prononcée lors d’une réunion de la Société juridique de Lvov, le 25 mars 1899 L’imputation au sens du droit pénal est un cas particulier de l’imputation prise au sens large, c’est-à-dire de l’imputation morale. L’imputation morale contient une évaluation éthique de l’acte imputé, le qualifiant ou bien d’interdit, ou bien de permis, ou bie...

Russell’s Human Society is a fun book to read, but meta-ethically it is a bit of a mess. There is much wit and some wisdom, though both the wit and the wisdom are more conspicuous when he is discussing human nature and human society than when he is discussing the finer points of ethical theory. (I particularly like his frequent complaints that human behavior seldom rises to the level of enlightened self-interest. If only we could manage to be intelligently selfish, (...) the world would be a much better place.) The drift of the argument is sometimes difficult to discern, partly because of has frequent digressions to make bon mots, and partly because of his dialectical method of presentation, which approaches what he takes to be the truth via a series of successive approximations. Human Society in Ethics and Politics was published in 1954, but the meta-ethical bits were originally written some years earlier and intended for inclusion in Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, (1948). Russell held them back because he was not sure whether ethical propositions rose to the dignity of knowledge. He continued to be doubtful about this, but by the early 1950s his doubts had sufficiently dissipated for publication to become a possibility. Nevertheless, there are marked analogies between the two books. Human Knowledge attempts to establish the existence of a mindindependent world on the basis of private perceptions. Human Society attempts to establish an ethic that is in some degree independent of individual minds on the basis of subjective sentiments. (shrink)

The Critique of Practical Reason is traditionally regarded as one of Kant’s central works on practical philosophy. Its structural and stylistic parallels with the Critique of Pure Reason sustain one’s conviction about its fundamental systematic relevance in Kant’s ethics. Nevertheless, the compositional sketch of the system of critical philosophy in the first Critique does not presume any separate critique of reason in its practical use. This inspires to investigate the question of the sense and aim of the critique of practical (...) reason in Kant’s main works of the 1780s. Such an investigation discovers, that the concept of such a critique emerges in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, which intends to find and to establish the supreme principle of pure morals, to supply its full-value deduction and insofar to present a sufficient introduction to the system of moral metaphysics. It is for the purpose of such a deduction, which demonstrates the normative validity and truth of categorical imperatives, that Kant considers a transition to a critique of practical reason necessary. And yet this transition as well as this critique are presumed to take place within the subject field of the Groundwork itself: the main features of the practical critique of reason as described in the Groundwork III are, according to Kant, sufficient for the purpose of justification of critical morality. If, however, the deduction of the moral law given in Groundwork III should fail, no possible future “progress of metaphysics” could compensate this failure, - because this deduction occurs at the «extreme boundary of all practical philosophy”, beyond which lies the realm of moral faith. Kant scholars consider the concepts of the “fact of pure reason” and the doctrine of the highest derivative good as crucial innovations of the second “Critique”. There are however reasons enough to dispute the question as to whether both doctrines really make for an innovation - and for an advance. (shrink)

“Politeness” appears to be connected to a quite disparate set of related concepts, including but not limited to, “manners,” “etiquette,” “agreeableness,” “respect” and even “piety.” While in the East politeness considered as an important social virtue is present (and even central) in the theoretical and practical expressions of the Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist traditions, (indeed politeness has been viewed in these traditions as central to proper education) it has not featured prominently in philosophical discussion in the West. American presidents Thomas (...) Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington all devoted discussion to politeness within the broader ambit of manners and etiquette, as too did Erasmus, Edmund Burke and Ralph Waldo Emerson but on the whole sustained philosophical engagement with the topic has been lacking in the West. The richest source for philosophical investigation is perhaps afforded by the centrality of the concept of respect in Immanuel Kant.However in this paper we will instead draw on the writings of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to defend the centrality of “politeness” as an important and valuable moral virtue. Starting with an analysis of the broader Aristotelian arguments on the virtues associated with “agreeableness,” namely, friendliness, truthfulness and wit I will argue that “politeness” should be thought of as an important moral virtue attached to social intercourse (and by extension the vice of impoliteness). I then move to identify an even broader and more important account of politeness, drawing on the work of Aquinas, as intimately connected to the notion of pietas (piety) as a fundamental part of the virtue of justice. (shrink)

The incursions of Ptolemy Soter into Coelê-Syria and Phoenicia after the death of Perdiccas have received scant attention from scholars in recent years, and the little they have received has failed to draw some vital conclusions. The sources are compressed, but unanimous, that very soon after the settlement of Triparadeisus, Ptolemy subverted and overran the region, fortified and garrisoned the cities, and returned to Egypt. He seems to have held this satrapy until it became a major arena in the third (...) Diadoch war, c. 315–311 B.C. (shrink)

Chez Auguste Comte, la connaissance ne saurait dépasser la sphère des lois scientifiques. Aussi la philosophie positive, expression par laquelle Comte désigne sa conception, se définit-elle comme une discipline ayant pour objet la coordination des faits observés, sans nulle prétention à aller au-delà des acquisitions de la science expérimentale.Cette philosophie positive d'Auguste Comte porte aussi le nom de positivisme, qui, chez Auguste Comte, désigne la conception selon laquelle l'esprit humain ne saurait atteindre le fond des choses et doit se borner (...) à la seule recherche des lois de la nature, conçues comme des relation s invariables de succession et de similitude. (shrink)

Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.

The aim of the article is to analyze the change of the Russian Federation’s international image in the light of two significant events: the Olympic Winter Games in 2014 in Sochi and the annexation of Crimea. According to the first hypothesis, one of the main aims for hosting the Olympic Games was to improve the international prestige of Russia. Shortly after the Olympics Russia increased its activity in Eastern Ukraine, which resulted in the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. (...) Therefore the article is also aimed to investigate whether by annexing Crimea Russia squandered the possible positive effects of hosting the Olympics in terms of its international image. (shrink)

Sanskrit text, portion of Tattvacintāmaṇi dealing with syllogism (avayava) ; with commentary and supercommentary, of the Navya-Nyaya school in Indic philosophy.

Μία επαναξέταση των οικοδομικών λειψάνων του διόλκου της Κορίνθου μας επιτρέπει να κατανοήσουμε πληρέστερα το αξιόλογο αυτό έργο υποδομής των διισθμικών μεταφορών. Η μελέτη, βασιζόμενη σε μία λεπτομερή χαρτογράφηση του ισθμού, σε νέες αποτυπώσεις και χωροσταθμήσεις του τμήματος του διόλκου που σώζεται στην περιοχή του Λουτρακίου, επιχειρεί να προσδιορίσει τις συνθήκες και τη λειτουργία της μεταφοράς των πλοίων μεταξύ του Κορινθιακού και του Σαρωνικού κόλπου, και να αποτιμήσει την αξία των μηχανικών κανόνων, του τεχνολογικού επιπέδου, καθώς και του οικονομικού ενδιαφέροντος (...) του εγχειρήματος. (shrink)

Les textes presentes ici appartiennent a ce qu'il est convenu de caracteriser comme formant la seconde periode de la philosophie de Fichte. L'evolution perceptible est nettement caracterisee par la determination de la Doctrine de la science 1801-1802. Le texte se signale d'une part par sa beaute architectonique et d'autre part par ses difficultes remarquables. Aussi bien un commentaire analytique a-t-il ete presente pour eclairer les vingt syntheses transcendantales de l'expose de 1801. De la sorte l'ensemble ici presente repond au travail (...) effectue il y a vingt ans pour la Doctrine de la science 1794-1795 (oeuvres choisies de philosophie premiere et La liberte humaine dans la philosophie de Fichte). Le projet fondamental est conclu par la traduction et le commentaire de la Doctrine de la science de 1804. Ainsi est publie et expose l'ensemble de la philosophie premiere de Fichte. (shrink)

Ouvrage majeur de la philosophie de Malebranche, De la recherche de la verite constitue un moment cle dans la reflexion philosophique a l'age classique. Si son inspiration est cartesienne, Malebranche y soutient d'emblee une theorie originale de la connaissance, de la verite et de la causalite: notamment la these de la vision en Dieu des idees et l'analyse des causes de l'erreur. Plus qu'une theorie de la connaissance, c'est donc une theorie complete de l'esprit humain et de ses multiples fonctions (...) que nous livre l'ouvrage. Cette nouvelle edition de la Recherche de la verite donne a lire pour la premiere fois dans un format accessible a tous, un texte majeur de la pensee moderne, heritier de l'age classique et annonciateur des Lumieres: les textes sont etablis a partir des deux dernieres editions de 1700 et 1712 revues par Malebranche lui-meme, et des trois premiers volumes des oeuvres Completes publiees sous la direction d'Andre Robinet; l'orthographe a ete modernisee. La ponctuation a fait l'objet d'une revision systematique; les textes cites en langue etrangere ont ete traduits ou retraduits, et leurs references mises a jour afin de tenir compte des editions les plus recentes. (shrink)

Report on analysis of ” pergamene sigillata“ from Delos This paper presents the results of the analysis of twenty samples of ” pergamene sigillata” from destruction layers of Delian living quarter, which can be dated to 69 BC. The programme included petrographical and chemical analysis, as well as MGR (Matrix Group by Refiring) method. The results show that the samples belong to several groups, among which some could be identified by comparison with chemical reference groups. Two samples were produced in (...) the Ketios valley workshops, four come from the Çandarlı area, and four others probably from the Pergamon region, from workshops not yet identified. The rest of the samples do not originate from that region, and were produced in other Asia Minor centers (six of them come from Ephesos, the rest from unidentified workshops). (shrink)