This paper is dedicated to the relationship between market development and democracy. We distinguish between contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is reached, and whether, conversely, democratisation is likely to be an obstacle to the acceptance of market liberalisation. Our study hinges on a n...

This paper is about a class of conditionals that Anthony Gillies (ms) has dubbed ‘open indicatives’, that is, indicative conditionals “whose antecedents are consistent with our picture of the world” (1). I believe that what I say here can eventually be extended to all indicative conditionals, but indicatives that aren’t open raise special problems, so I’ll set them aside for today. In [auth 200...

Since its inception in the work of the classical social theorists, the sociology of knowledge—or as some would prefer, of belief—has generated an extensive array of debates about relativism. A central question has been whether the very existence of social determinants for beliefs makes it impossible to regard them as true or rational in any absolute sense, and this has proved especially content...

There is probably not a single relativist who does not know about these two papers, the ® rst published papers on the idea of an expanding and evolving universe. Nevertheless, the number of those who know what the papers actually contain or do not contain is much smaller. Legends have established themselv es about what part of the credit belongs to Alexander Friedmann, what part belongs to Geor...

When explaining someone’s behavior, reference is often made to Theory of Mind concepts like beliefs (”she believed it was the right thing to do”) or desires (”she wanted to”). Less appreciated is the explanatory potential for descriptive and prescriptive norms (e.g., ”she returned the wallet because it was the right thing to do”). One possibility is that norms serve as explanations only when me...

Van Fraassen’s modal interpretation of non-relativist quantum mechanics (QM) is articulated to support an antirealist account of QM. However, given the particular form of van Fraassen’s anti-realism (constructive empiricism), two problems arise when we try to make it compatible with the modal interpretation: one difficulty concerns the tension between the need for modal operators in the modal i...

Management needs qualitative and comprehensive information for decision making. Managers are always searching for useful information in order to reach their firm's goals and strategies. The development in technology, globalization and focusing on costumers needs has changed the information that managers need to maintain their position in a competitive environment and take advantage of profitabl...

Abstract Although reasoning is a central concept in mathematics education research, the discipline still need of coherent theoretical framework mathematical reasoning. With respect to epistemological problems dominant discourses on proof, modelling, and post-truth politics discipline, accordance with trends philosophy research general, it argued that necessary give relativist account Hacking’s ...

In this article, we argue that ethnomusicology holds valuable epistemic insights for considering how to measure and evaluate research academics, as well policy management professionals. We focus on two notable instances of standardised national assessment frameworks: the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF), in Australia (ERA) identify advantages practice models music by benefits ethnomusic...

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