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4 Jan 2014, 9:41 pm by Buce
 I'd also read and enjoyed both Martha Nussbaum's (sprawling) Fragility of Goodness and Alisdair MacIntyre's (eccentric) After Virtue, both of which Gray mentions in his acknowledgments. [read post]
18 Jul 2013, 6:17 pm by Brian Leiter
I should disclose that I declined to sign the letter (as did my colleague Martha Nussbaum), but not because of lack of sympathy with its basic point. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
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17 Jun 2013, 12:51 pm by Milan Markovic
Martha Nussbaum and Charles Wolf have published an editorial on Bloomberg that defends the third year of law school. [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 6:04 am by Staci Zaretsky
Nidal Hasan, Martha Nussbaum, Military / Military Law, Morning Docket, Morning-After Pill, Murder, Nicholas Allard, Nicholas W. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 12:42 pm
Under Martha Nussbaum’s and Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach, which Cohen embraces, intellectual property policy would be evaluated under a new metric, not simply increased products (in the form of patents, copyrighted works, or trademarked goods), or its contribution to the gross domestic product, but rather its role in enhancing human capabilities. [read post]
20 May 2013, 6:52 am by Ivan Cohen
Similarly, Martha Nussbaum in her great book Frontiers of Justice, writing from a more aretaic (i.e., Aristotelian, focusing on character and virtue) perspective, has argued that the state’s role is to enable human flourishing by raising people above the threshold level on a number of “capabilities. [read post]
23 Apr 2013, 5:47 am
We do so through a review of the case law and through a consideration of relevant ethical principles, paying particular attention to the scholarship of Martha Nussbaum’s theories of equality for people with intellectual disabilities. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 4:37 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
“Even those who think that death is a continuation, and not an ending, can benefit from contemplating the implications of annihilation. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 7:14 pm by Linda McClain
Martha Nussbaum has made powerful arguments that France’s ban reflects a “new religious intolerance. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 8:30 am by azatty
The featured speaker will be Professor Martha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago. [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 3:56 pm by Brian Leiter
Participants inlude Frank Jackson, Tim Crane, Kit Fine, Martha Nussbaum, Raymond Geuss, Cynthia Freeland, Helen Beebee, Joshua Knobe, Sean Kelly, Gideon Rosen, Noel... [read post]
26 Nov 2012, 1:08 pm by Brian Leiter
, as well as a few philosophers, or folks in the vicinity of philosophy: Jurgen Habermas, Michael Sandel, Martha Nussbaum, and Slavoj Zizek. [read post]
12 Nov 2012, 6:01 pm
  As Martha Nussbaum has argued, our “insecurity about sex and the lack of control involved in sexâ€� often causes governing majorities to constitute themselves as a dominant group of sexual “normals,â€� and others as a group of sexual deviants. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 6:37 pm by Mark McKenna
I am quite sympathetic to Sunder’s goals here, and we share an affinity for the capabilities approach most prominently associated with Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 6:21 pm by Lea Shaver
Specifically, Sunder starts from the theory of human development, or capabilities approach, as articulated by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. [read post]