RETHINKING THE OFFENSE PRINCIPLE

Rethinking the Person-Affecting Principle

In Rethinking the Good, Larry Temkin argues for a principle that he calls the Narrow PersonAffecting View. In its simplest formulation, this principle states that a first outcome can be better than a second outcome only if there is someone who fares better in the first outcome than in the second. Temkin argues that this kind of principle gives us reason to reject the Transitivity Thesis, accord...

Rethinking Ricardo’s Principle of Comparative Advantage

The Juvenile Court Meets the Principle of the Offense: Legislative Changes in Juvenile Waiver Statutes

155 Offense

The major purpose of our research is to study cooperative planning for multi-agent system in time-critical environment. The RoboCup simulator league is the most interesting target for our research. Each agent of the team 11monkeys is realized as an autonomous agent that has two sets of rules, namely state dependent rules and position speciied rules. We call the former dynamic role and the latte...

Rethinking breast cancer risk and the environment: the case for the precautionary principle.

The World Health Organization recently reported that breast cancer has become the most common cancer in women throughout the world. Known risk factors account for less than half of all cases of breast cancer, and inherited germ line mutations occur in at most only 10% of all cases. Cumulative exposure to estradiol and other hormones links many of the established risk factors for breast cancer. ...