A qualified defense of Husserl's crisis concepts

Bias Crime Statutes: a Qualified Liberal Defense

Since American legislatures began passing bias crime statutes (which set more severe penalties for crimes committed from biased motives) in the 1980s, many legal philosophers have argued that such statutes are unjust on the grounds that they punish character traits and feelings rather than actions and intentions. It is unjust to punish character traits and feelings, these authors have supposed,...

The Defense Identity Crisis: It’s a Hybrid World

In Defense of a Prototype Approach to Emotion Concepts

Emotion, anger, fear, love, and similar concepts have so far defied classical definition. This article summarizes one analysis of emotion concepts from a prototype perspective and answers criticisms directed at such an analysis. Specifically addressed are 5 claims made by critics: The superordinate concept of emotion is classically defined; basic-level emotion concepts are classically defined; ...

The role of passive defense in urban crisis management from urban managers’ perspective

The main objective of this research is to determine the role of passive defense in urban crisis management from the perspectives of experts and urban managers Municipality of Tehran- District, 5. In order to carry out the study, an analytical-applied research method and a combination of documentary, descriptive, analytical and case study methods are used. All managers and experts of Tehran’s mu...

A Theory of Qualified Types

• The ability to include local constraints as part of the type of an object. This enables the definition and use of polymorphic overloaded values within a program. ∗An earlier version of this paper was presented at the European Symposium on Programming, Rennes, France, February 1992 and appears in the conference proceedings published in Springer Verlag LNCS Volume 582. †Address from September 1...