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Poverty, well-being, and gender: What counts, who's heard?

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Three recent books are explored that address the situation of the economically poorest quarter of the world's population, especially the women who are disproportionately represented among them. Each of the three in its own way, examines and analyzes aspects of human agency and well being, in particular women's agency and well being.

Author: Voorhoeve, Alex, Okin, Susan Moller
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2003
Population, Demographic aspects, Poverty, Quality of life

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Defending transitivity against Zeno's paradox

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The orthodox view, that the relation all things considered better than, should be regarded as transitive, is supported. It makes clear where the argument goes wrong by showing that it is a version of Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise.

Author: Binmore, Ken, Voorhoeve, Alex
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2003
Relation (Philosophy), Relationism

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Facts and Principles

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The prelude to a long study titled, rescuing justice from constructivism, is represented. Argument for a thesis about the relationship between facts and normative principles is done.

Author: Cohen, G. A., Voorhoeve, Alex
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2003
Constructivism (Education), Constructivism (Learning theory), Constructivism (Psychology)

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