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Does friendship give us non-derivative partial reasons ?
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2008-03)
Une des façons d’approcher la question de l’existence de raisons partiales non-dérivatives d’une
quelconque sorte consiste à expliquer ce que sont les raisons partiales et ensuite à chercher à
savoir s’il y a des raisons ...
Friendship and the grounds of reasons
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2008-03)
L’amitié de même que d’autres relations intimes ont créé des difficultés pour les philosophes
moraux. Bien que la morale semble exiger que nous demeurions impartiaux, l’amitié semble donner
naissance à des obligations ...
White matter changes in corticobasal degeneration syndrome and correlation with limb apraxia
(American Medical Association, 2008)
BACKGROUND:
Data on white matter changes in corticobasal degeneration syndrome (CBDS) are not yet available, whereas cortical gray matter loss is a feature of this condition. The structural abnormalities related to a key ...
Monetary Policy by Committee:Consensus, Chairman Dominance or Simple Majority?
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-02)
This paper studies the theoretical and empirical implications of monetary policy making by committee under three different voting protocols. The protocols are a consensus model, where super-majority is required for a policy ...
The Efficient Use of Multiple Sources of a Nonrenewable Resource under Supply Cost Uncertainty
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-03)
Uncertainties as to future supply costs of nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil and gas, raise the issue of the choice of supply sources. In a perfectly deterministic world, an efficient use of multiple sources of ...
Poverty and Time
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-03)
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual ...
Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-07)
A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not su¤er ...
Self-other asymmetry
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2008-03)
In this paper, I present a non standard objection to moral impartialism. My idea is that moral
impartialism is questionable when it is committed to a principle we have reasons to reject: the
principle of self-other ...
Externalities, Potential, Value and Consistency
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-04)
We provide new characterization results for the value of games in partition function form. In particular, we use the potential of a game to define the value. We also provide a characterization of the class of values which ...
Multi-Profile Intergenerational Social Choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-06)
Ferejohn and Page transplanted a stationarity axiom from Koopmans’ theory of impatience into Arrow’s social choice theory with an infinite horizon and showed that the Arrow axioms and stationarity lead to a dictatorship ...