823 research outputs found
Norm Typology and the Study of Commons
No full text33 slides. Abstract available at: https://2025.iasc-commons.org/abstract_author/author-189/ .Ostrom’s institutional grammar provides an analytical framework for identifying different rule-types used in the governance of commons, in other words, it provides a typology of rules for how commons can be regulated. Outside of Ostrom’s institutional grammar, norm typology is also found in particular in legal theory, most famously in Hohfeld’s oft-cited (though less often applied) study of jural relations (1919), while a more recent example is Frändberg’s study of the foundations of legal order (2018). By identifying the formal characteristics of rules in general and of different rule types, such analysis provides standards for the appraisal of particular substantive rules. In particular, Ostrom’s institutional grammar provides an overall framework for apprehending the range of possible rule types in the regulation of commons, as well as design principles derived from empirical studies allowing optimal approaches to commons governance. Ostrom made some reference to Hohfeld’s work, but did not use it extensively or compare her rule types to Hohfeld’s jural relations, while Ostrom’s work has been little cited in legal scholarship. Within literature inspired by Ostrom’s institutional grammar, some authors have suggested adjusting aspects of Östrom’s typology (such as Siddiki et al 2011), while others have not relied on Ostrom’ rule types, instead adopting a considerably more detailed typology of rules (de Moor et al 2016). This paper considers Ostrom’s institutional grammar in light of legal norm typology to assess to what extent the latter might be a basis for critiquing or supplementing Ostrom’s approach
Evaluating Proposals for Taxation of Space Activities from the Perspective of Space as a Global Commons
No full text13 slides. Abstract available at: https://2025.iasc-commons.org/abstract_author/author-397/ .The term ‘commons’ has become widely used in recent years to convey shared or cooperative ownership or governance of natural resources, including more open access and global natural resources such as outer space. Governance of commons has a financial dimension to it, including the financing of governance institutions and processes, while also possibly entailing a system of taxation, e.g. applied to the income derived from the exploitation of natural resources. This paper first places taxation in the context of space as commons, i.e. in the context of the range and types of regulation of activities in space that currently exist, especially at international level. It assesses the issue of regulation of space in light of Ostrom’s institutional grammar and subsequent literature on regulating commons. In light of this discussion, it then surveys and evaluates several existing proposals for global taxes relating to space or proposals that are closely analogous to taxation of space activities, in particular: Brock & McMaster on global aviation taxes (2018), Savir’s proposal regarding space-related royalties (2021), and Caljuri on the OECD Model Convention relating to double taxation (2023). The paper concludes by considering the implications for taxation of understanding space within the framework of governance of a commons
The Philosophy of Anne Conway
No full textBy Jonathan Head Author: HEAD, Jonathan, Lecturer in Philosophy, Keele University. Reference: The Philosophy of Anne Conway: God, Creation and the Nature of Time. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 207 pp. ISBN 9781350134522. The early modern philosopher Anne Conway offers a remarkable synthesis of ideas from differing philosophical traditions that deserve our attention today. Exploring all of the major aspects of Conway's thought, this book presents a valuable guide to her contribu..
Review of author Jill Ker Conway\u27s talk at Portland\u27s First Parish Church, in on
No full textReview of author Jill Ker Conway\u27s talk at Portland\u27s First Parish Church, in one of Portland Public Library\u27s Brown Bag Lectures. She spoke of the memoir craze by way of her latest book, When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography
2009 Open Access Week: Copyright and Author Rights
No full textA talk about copyright by Danielle M. Conway
How to Read Like You Mean It
No full textIn this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult texts. Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don’t understand, we must embrace confusion as a constitutive part of understanding and meaningful exchange, whether between a reader and a text or between two people.
Building on the work of hermeneutics scholar Paul Ricoeur, Conway evaluates the recurring paradox of miscommunication that results in deeper understanding and proposes strategies for reading that will allow individuals give up the illusion of certainty. In elegant and compelling prose, Conway introduces readers to the idea that it is through uncertainty that we can gain access to new and meaningful worlds—those of texts and other people
How to Read Like You Mean It
No full textIn this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult texts. Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don’t understand, we must embrace confusion as a constitutive part of understanding and meaningful exchange, whether between a reader and a text or between two people.
Building on the work of hermeneutics scholar Paul Ricoeur, Conway evaluates the recurring paradox of miscommunication that results in deeper understanding and proposes strategies for reading that will allow individuals to give up the illusion of certainty. In elegant and compelling prose, Conway introduces readers to the idea that it is through uncertainty that we can gain access to new and meaningful worlds—those of texts and other people.Publishe
Inevitable humans: Simon Conway Morris's evolutionary paleontology - review
No full textThis is an electronic version of an article published in Zygon®: Journal of Religion and Science.Book review of Simon Conway Morris's Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe.Includes bibliographical references (page 229).Simon Conway Morris, noted Cambridge University paleontologist, argues that in evolutionary natural history humans (or beings rather like humans) are an inevitable outcome of the developing speciating processes over millennia. This claim, in marked contrast to claims about contingency made by other prominent paleontologists, is based on numerous remarkable convergences--similar trends found repeatedly in evolutionary history. Conway Morris concludes facing a natural theology. His argument is powerful and informed. But does it face adequately the surprising events that redirect the course of life? The challenge to understand how humans are both "on a continuum" with other species and also "utterly different" remains a central puzzle in paleontology
Dr. Katherine Conway-Turner
No full textKatherine S. Conway-Turner, Ph.D., was confirmed as the ninth president of Buffalo State College by the SUNY Board of Trustees on June 16, 2014.She is a lifelong learner, educator, scholar, author, and humanitarian. During her 31-year career, she has served in a variety of leadership and administrative positions as well as held the rank of professor of psychology at five universities.
Most recently, Dr. Conway-Turner was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, from July 2010 until July 2014. From 2004 to 2009, she was provost and vice president for academic affairs at SUNY Geneseo. Dr. Conway-Turner was the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware, where she also served as director of the women’s studies program and graduate program coordinator. She was an American Council on Education (ACE) fellow at the College of New Jersey and she has held teaching positions at Santa Clara University and California State University, Long Beach.
In addition to her administrative responsibilities, teaching, and research,Dr. Conway-Turner regularly travels to Haiti to perform humanitarian work as a member of H.O.P.E., a nonprofit, volunteer organization based in Rochester, New York. Through this organization, she and her colleagues assist the people of Borgne, Haiti, in achieving equitable, just, and sustainable living conditions.
Dr. Conway-Turner received her Ph.D. and M.A. in psychology and her B.A. in microbiology, all from the University of Kansas. As a first-generation college student, she embraces the transformative power of education. She has experienced firsthand the potential of schools like Buffalo State, and she views the college as a special place that does incredible work to move its students forward. In short, Buffalo State transforms lives.
Dr. Conway-Turner is married to Dr. Alvin L. Turner, a psychologist licensed in New York and Delaware engaged in the independent practice of psychotherapy, supervision, training, and forensic psychological services. They have three daughters, Shana, Anya, and Jameela.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/htcbsspeakerbios/1001/thumbnail.jp
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