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The path to What We Owe to Each Other. An interview of Luc Foisneau and Véronique Munoz-Dardé with Tim Scanlon
No full texthttps://www.politika.io/fr/notice/the-path-to-what-we-owe-to-each-otherT.M. Scanlon is Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. He received his B.A. from Princeton in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Harvard. In between, he studied for a year at Oxford as a Fulbright Fellow. He taught at Princeton from 1966 before coming to Harvard in 1984. Professor Scanlon’s dissertation and some of his first papers were in mathematical logic, but the bulk of his teaching and writing has been in moral and political philosophy. He has published papers on freedom of expression, the nature of rights, conceptions of welfare, and theories of justice, as well as on foundational questions in moral theory. In the present interview he talks about how he first became interested in moral philosophy, his evolving judgement about Kantian moral ideas, the genesis of his ideas concerning the centrality of reasons in normative philosophy and the idea of justifiability to others as a basis for morality.He was invited at EHESS on the 13th November 2017 for a one-day long discussion of the manuscript of his book, Why does Inequality Matter? (Oxford, 2018), and on the 14th November he participated in the CESPRA seminar on Normative political philosophy with a text on “Contractualism and justification”.The interview was conducted by Luc Foisneau (CNRS director of research) with the collaboration of Véronique Munoz-Dardé (UCL/Berkeley) before the seminar given by Tim Scanlon at EHESS, 105 boulevard Raspail, in Paris. The transcription of the interview is due to Victor Mardellat (PhD candidate in philosophy, CESPRA).T.M. Scanlon est professeur de religion naturelle, de philosophie morale et de politique civile à Harvard University. Il a obtenu son B.A. à Princeton en 1962 et son doctorat à Harvard. Dans l'intervalle, il a étudié pendant un an à Oxford en tant que boursier Fulbright. Il a enseigné à Princeton à partir de 1966 avant de venir à Harvard en 1984. La thèse du professeur Scanlon et certains de ses premiers articles portaient sur la logique mathématique, mais l'essentiel de son enseignement et de ses écrits a été consacré à la philosophie morale et politique. Il a publié des articles sur la liberté d'expression, la nature des droits, les conceptions du bien-être et les théories de la justice, ainsi que sur des questions fondamentales de la théorie morale. Dans l'entretien que nous publions, il explique comment il s'est intéressé pour la première fois à la philosophie morale, l'évolution de son jugement sur les idées morales kantiennes, la genèse de ses idées concernant le caractère central des raisons dans la philosophie normative et l'idée de la justifiabilité à autrui comme fondement de la moralité.Il a été invité à l'EHESS le 13 novembre 2017 pour une journée de discussion sur le manuscrit de son livre, Why does Inequality Matter ? (Oxford, 2018), et le 14 novembre il a participé au séminaire du CESPRA sur la philosophie politique normative avec un texte sur "Le contractualisme et la justification".L'entretien a été réalisé par Luc Foisneau (directeur de recherche au CNRS) avec la collaboration de Véronique Munoz-Dardé (UCL/Berkeley) avant le séminaire donné par Tim Scanlon à l'EHESS, 105 boulevard Raspail, à Paris. La transcription de l'entretien est due à Victor Mardellat (doctorant en philosophie, CESPRA, EHESS)
Multiculturalism: discussion paper
No full textSets out to explore and reflect on the reasons why Australian multiculturalism has succeeded.
Introduction
Multiculturalism in Australia is unquestionably a success story.
This sentiment has been echoed by many including Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, who in 2013 said that there was strong agreement with the notion that we should be emphatically proud of our achievements as a multicultural society. Rupert Murdoch has made observations of Australia as being ‘a great model for the world – a prosperous, multicultural society of people living together in peace and freedom’.
Today, Australia’s diverse culture is one of our most defining characteristics. In fact, we now have the largest overseas-born population of all large OECD nations, with nearly half of our population either born overseas, or with one or both parents born overseas.
Since 2007, the Scanlon Foundation’s Mapping Social Cohesion Research series has recorded and analysed public attitudes to issues relating to the impact that our broad immigration program has made on Australian society, and our social cohesion.
Over the course of the ten years since this research began, acceptance of multiculturalism has been consistently high. The 2015 Mapping Social Cohesion Research found that 86% of Australians either agree or strongly agree that multiculturalism has been good for Australia, and this view has remained constant over the last three surveys.
This discussion paper sets out to explore the complexities beneath this support, and reflect on why Australian multiculturalism has succeeded.
What exactly is multiculturalism as practiced in Australia? Is it a concrete concept of different cultures and backgrounds living together cohesively, or simply a way of describing our diverse society? And who is responsible for making multiculturalism a success – should new migrants adapt to fit Australia, or vice versa?
These questions are vital for all Australians, old and new, to consider at a time of great global change, and when the European experience and attitudes towards integration of migrants has become so widely discussed in the media
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No full textThis chapter discusses evaluations and approaches to evaluations of CAL at the OUU
Do dolphins benefit from nonlinear mathematics when processing their sonar returns?
No full textAn interview with author Tim Leighton about the paper
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No full textTim Di Muzio on 'Sabotage'
No full textIn a series of essays published in 2013 and 2014 on capitaspower.com, political economist Tim Di Muzio explored the concept of ‘sabotage’ as it applies to capitalist power. I recently rediscovered these essays and was so impressed by them that I have reposted them here as a single piece.
About the author: Tim Di Muzio is a researcher at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of numerous books, including Debt as power, Carbon capitalism, and The 1% and the Rest of us
1996-1997 Tim Gautreaux
No full textTim Gautreaux is the author of three novels and two earlier short story collections. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and GQ. After teaching for thirty years at Southeastern Louisiana University, he now lives, with his wife, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Photo credit: Randy Bergeron)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1023/thumbnail.jp
First person - Tim Petzold
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Tim Petzold is first author on ‘ Connexin 41.8 governs timely haematopoietic stem and progenitor cell specification’, published in BiO. Tim conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Julien Bertrand's lab at the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Holger Gerhardt at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, investigating developmental biology – previously his focus was on how blood stem cells develop and now it has shifted to how the vascular system develops
Tim Seibles, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. In 2013 he received both the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Misericordia University for his literary accomplishments. His latest collection, One Turn Around the Sun, has just been released. Tim is the current Poet Laureate of Virginia and is a Professor of English at Old Dominion University where he teaches literature as well as classes in the MFA in writing program
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