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Is microfinance an ethical way to provide financial services to the poor?
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2007)
Microfinance is increasingly seen as a major development tool. Its promise to help the poor by providing financial services is seen as the major reason for its support. Nevertheless, its ability to effectively reduce poverty ...
Interview with Jonathan Wolff
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)
Four Stages In Assessing Liberal Neutrality
(Société Philosophique Ithaque, 2012)
La notion de neutralité, bien que référent central au sein d’un État libéral, est souvent invoquée de manière imprécise et contradictoire dans le discours public. Proposant que cela résulte en partie des limites inhérentes ...
The ‘Is’ in Animal-is-m
(Société Philosophique Ithaque, 2011)
Eric T. Olson argues for a position in personal identity called Animalism. Olson's definition of ‘what we are’ is what the biological community currently defines as the ‘human animal’. While Olson argues his definition is ...
How Political and Legal Theorists Can Change Admission Laws
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)
Working Children: their Agency and self-organization
(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 ...
What Is the Point of Development Ethics?
(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, ...
Introduction: Working in Development Ethics – a tribute to Denis Goulet
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)
Denis Goulet (1931-2006) was probably the main founder of work on ‘development ethics’ as a self-conscious field that treats the ethical and value questions posed by development theory, planning and practice. This overview ...
Who has responsibility for access to essential medical drugs in the developing world?
(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 ...
Age stratification and cohort effects in scholarly communication : a study of social sciences
(Springer, 2016-07-29)
Aging is considered to be an important factor in a scholar’s propensity to
innovate, produce, and collaborate on high quality work. Yet, empirical studies in the area
are rare and plagued with several limitations. As a ...