Rima Hawi, John Rawls : Itinéraire d’un libéral américain vers l’égalité sociale

Vers un modèle de Recherche d'Information Sociale pour l'accès aux ressources bibliographiques

Figure 1. Le réseau social des ressources bibliographiques La recherche d’information sociale estime la pertinence d’un document à partir de l’importance sociale des auteurs associés (Kirsch et al., 2006) (Mutschke, 2001). Dans ce contexte et en se basant sur la représentation introduite par BaezaYates, nous proposons de définir le modèle de recherche d’information sociale par un quintuplet [D,...

Enfance, Jeunesse et Non-Religion: Vers un Programme de Recherche Sociale

Popular and academic interest in the phenomenon of ‘non-religion’, including atheism, humanism and agnosticism, is currently on the rise, reflected in the proliferation of social research on this important theme. Yet, despite a parallel growth in scholarship on childhood, youth and religion, little interest has so far been directed towards nonreligion in this context. This article brings togeth...

Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) is widely credited with having revived post–World War II Anglo American political philosophy. This book together with his later writings are routinely judged to constitute the most important body of work in that field. Indeed, with the collapse of Second World and Third World socialist ideologico-political alternatives, liberalism in one form or another h...

Revisiting Rawls

The present paper revisits the issue of rational decision making in John Rawls’ original position. Drawing on Isaac Levi’s theory of decision, I discuss how we can defend Rawls against John C. Harsanyi’s charge that maximin reasoning in the original position is irrational. The discussion suggests that systematic application of Levi’s theory is likely to have important consequences for ethics an...

Work ( s ) : Some Ordinalist - Utilitarian Notes on Rawls ' s Theory of Justice by John