Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de philosophie

Was Keynes a Liberal and an Individualist? Or Keynes reader of Mandeville

Keynes était-il libéral et individualiste? Ou Keynes lecteur de Mandeville

Lagueux, Maurice (L'Harmattan, 1998)

Dans le but d'éclairer la question de savoir jusqu'à quel point Keynes devrait être considéré tant comme un libéral que comme un individualiste, le texte examine la façon dont Keynes a compris Mandeville qui, adoptait lui-même, à ce double égard, ...

Well-Being Freedom and The Possibility of Public-Provision Unit in Global Context

Gotoh, Reiko (Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)

The purpose of this paper is, first, to investigate the interconnections of substantive freedoms, which are indispensable for every individual to “lead the kind of lives they have reason to value” (Sen, 1999b, p.10,18), and which have legitimate and ...

What can the Stakeholder Theory Learn from Enron?

Norman, Wayne (Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)

Roughly speaking, Enron has done for reflection on corporate governance what AIDS did for research on the immune system. So far, however, virtually all of this reflection on and subsequent reform of governance has come from those with a stake in the ...

What Is the Point of Development Ethics?

Gasper, Des (Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)

Research and teaching in societal development ethics face potentially four fundamental types of objection: first, that ethics is obvious already; second, that it is instead impossible, on epistemological grounds; third, that it is theoretically possible ...

What’s wrong with Charles Taylor’s moral pluralism

Zuniga, Didier (Société Philosophique Ithaque, 2015)

In political philosophy one often encounters claims on behalf of pluralism, yet there is anything but a consensus over the meaning of this fundamental concept. It is true that there is no single pluralist tradition; rather, there are different pluralist ...

Which income inequalities, if any, can be justified as incentive payments?

Dietsch, Peter (Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2005)

Who has responsibility for access to essential medical drugs in the developing world?

Banerjee, Amitava (Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)

L’accès aux traitements de base est un enjeu crucial pour la santé, la pauvreté et le développement. La responsabilité en matière d’accès est alors une question essentielle. Le huitième Objectif du Millénaire pour le Développement postule ...

Wittgenstein And Labyrinth Of ‘Actual Infinity’: The Critique Of Transfinite Set Theory

Therrien, Valérie Lynn (Société Philosophique Ithaque, 2012)

In order to explain Wittgenstein’s account of the reality of completed infinity in mathematics, a brief overview of Cantor’s initial injection of the idea into set- theory, its trajectory (including the Diagonal Argument, the Continuum Hypothesis and ...

Working Children: their Agency and self-organization

van den BERGE, Marten P. (Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)

In recent years, ‘agency’ has appeared in academic writings as a new way of referring to active involvement from below in development interventions. The concept of ‘agency’ starts from the assumption that people are actually agents themselves, continuously ...