Although asset policies and programs are seldom linked to wider theoretical debates in social welfare, this paper contends that an understanding of these debates contextualizes asset interventions and clarifies underlying values and ideological beliefs. Contrasting different normative perspectives in contemporary social welfare theory, the paper suggests that developmentalism offers a congenial...

Multiple-participant (MP) dynamic decision making (DDM) is encountered both in societal and technical systems. Unlike in single-participant (SP) DDM, no commonly accepted normative theory exists. The paper contributes to numerous attempts to overcome this state by classifying possible MP scenarios and connecting them with the normative SP DDM. This classification helps us to formulate open prob...

In the past decade the traditional falsificationist view of hypothesis-testing tasks, such as Wason’s selection task, has become criticized from a Bayesian perspective. In this report a normative extension of Oaksford’s and Chater’s (1994, 1998) influential Bayesian theory is proposed, that not only takes quantitative but also qualitative (structural) knowledge into account. In an experiment it...

INTRODUCTION.............................................................................336 I. THE DOCTRINAL DIMENSION ....................................................336 II. THE NORMATIVE DIMENSION...................................................342 A. On Becoming Marks .......................................................343 B. Distinctiveness Versus Functionality ......................

Global health research is essentially a normative undertaking: we use it to propose policies that ought to be implemented. To arrive at a normative conclusion in a logical way requires at least one normative premise, one that cannot be derived from empirical evidence alone. But there is no widely accepted normative premise for global health, and the actors with the power to set policies may use...

According to Streumer and Wodak, a particular type of formal objection normative error theory fails because it rests on questionable assumption about the logical duality concepts permissibility impermissibility. In this discussion, we argue that there is an in their indictment; as such, might still prevail.