UNCTAD VII-what is really at stake

What is at stake in the debate on value

New Lanark is one of the big tourist attractions in the south of Scotland. Designated a world heritage site by the UN it is an almost perfectly preserved model industrial village run by Robert Owen two hundred years ago. It has a large and elegant school building, an ’Institute for the Formation of Character’, workers houses and the original mills. An exhibition and theme ride puts accross some...

What Is at Stake in the Debate on Nonconceptual Content?

It is now 25 years since Gareth Evans introduced the distinction between conceptual and nonconceptual content in The Varieties of Reference. This is a fitting time to take stock of what has become a complex and extended debate both within philosophy and at the interface between philosophy and psychology. Unfortunately, the debate has become increasingly murky as it has become increasingly ramif...

What Is at Stake When Determining Lifetime Asset Allocation?**

This paper examines the effects of deviating from the optimal life-cycle asset allocation. The magnitude of likely deviations is gauged through an analysis of differences between available life-cycle funds. The motivation is that due to search costs, the complexity of the decision problem and other factors, an investor may choose a fund with asset allocation profile A even though profile B woul...

What Is at Stake in the Controversy over Conditionals

1. INTRODUCTION The following remarks are going to suggest that there is more at stake in the current controversy over condition-als than merely the logic of conditionals. Among the more general issues involved are the limits of truth-conditionality, the implications of this for certain programs in the philosophy of language, the values of truth and probability, and the rationale of logic [and,...

Voter Id : What ’ S at Stake ?