The discourse ethics alternative to Rust v. Sullivan.

Government funding in Title X projects: circumscribing the constitutional rights of the indigent: Rust v. Sullivan.

Classical medicine v alternative medical practices.

Classical medicine operates in a climate of rational discourse, scientific knowledge accretion and the acceptance of ethical standards that regulate its activities. Criticism has centred on the excessive technological emphasis of modern medicine and on its social strategy aimed at defending exclusiveness and the privileges of professional status. Alternative therapeutic approaches have taken ad...

Rust v. Sullivan and the control of knowledge.

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The discourse theory of democracy and public sphere in Habermas's ideas

Research and scientific explanation about discourse democracy theory of Jurgen Habermas  and studying and evaluating reflection and generalization of his philosophical and epistemological principles are objectives which the researcher follows in this research From this view, there is studied representation of concepts and categories such as cognitive interests, communication action, discoursing...

Explanation-based discourse inferences support early word learning

Children can learn new words from non-instructive contexts (e.g., overheard speech). Recently, it has been proposed that one way that children do this is by using the surrounding discourse to constrain the interpretation of new words (Sullivan & Barner, 2015). However, little is known about what sort of discourse inferences children might compute when learning. In the present study, we adopt a ...