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The Logic of Sufficiency

What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens andthe ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, nota hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it organize itself, structure itsindustry, shape its consumption?Across time and across cultures, people actually have adapted toecological constraint. They have changed behavior; they have built institutions. And they havedeveloped norms and principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges -- at once global,technological, and commercial -- require new behaviors, new institutions, and new principles.In thishighly original work, Thomas Princen builds one such principle: sufficiency. Sufficiency is notabout denial, not about sacrifice or doing without. Rather, when resource depletion andoverconsumption are real, sufficiency is about doing well. It is about good work and goodgovernance; it is about goods that are good only to a point.With examples ranging from timbering andfishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensibleand yet absolutely contrary to modern society's dominant principle, efficiency. He argues thatseeking enough when more is possible is both intuitive and rational -- personally, organizationallyand ecologically rational. And under global ecological constraint, it is ethical. Over the longterm, an economy -- indeed a society -- cannot operate as if there's never enough and never toomuch.

Most likely , though , that neglect owes to the fact that social scientists and the policymakers who employ social science reasoning see no need for an alternative rationality . Economic and legal rationalities prevail in public ...

The Logic of God; Theology and Verification

In courts of law it sometimes happens that opposing counsel are agreed as to the facts and are not trying to settle a question of ... In such cases we notice that the process of argument is not a chain of demonstrative reasoning .

Logic, Deductive and Inductive

On the Combination of Probable Arguments Cumulative or Corroborative Evidence , including Circumstantial Evidence . ... Much legal evidence is of this kind , as when A testifies that he received a certain parcel from B , B that he ...

Deductive and Inductive Logic

Probable arguments may be combined together in a chain : ( or , as it has been more appropriately called , a coil ) of ... Much legal evidence is of this kind , as when A testifies that he received a certain parcel from B , B that he ...

The elements of deductive logic. [Another]

Probable arguments may be combined together in a chain ( or , as it has been more appropriately called , a coil ) of ... Much legal evidence is of this kind , as when A testifies that he received a certain parcel from B , B that he ...

The Elements of Deductive Logic

Designed Mainly for the Use of Junior Students in the Universities

Probable arguments may be combined together in a chain ( or , as it has been more appropriately called , a coil ) of ... Much legal evidence is of this kind , as when A testifies that he received a certain parcel from B , B that he ...

Deontic Logic in Computer Science

11th International Conference, DEON 2012, Bergen, Norway, July 16-18, 2012, Proceedings

This volume presents the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, DEON 2012, held in Bergen, Norway, in July 2012. The 14 revised papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. Topics covered include logical study of normative reasoning, formal analysis of normative concepts and normative systems, formal specification of aspects of norm-governed multi-agent systems and autonomous agents, normative aspects of protocols for communication, negotiation and multi-agent decision making, formal representation of legal knowledge, formal specification of normative systems for the management of bureaucratic processes in public or private administration, and applications of normative logic to the specification of database integrity constraints.

This volume presents the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, DEON 2012, held in Bergen, Norway, in July 2012.

An Essay on the Principle of Population

Influences on Malthus, Selections from Malthus' Work, Nineteenth-century Comment, Malthus in the Twenty-first Century

While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year."

While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world's population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.

Emerging Conflicts of Principle

International Relations and the Clash Between Cosmopolitanism and Republicanism

Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified and analyzed by Thomas Kane which characterize world politics today.

Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified and analyzed ...

Philosophy of Mathematics and Economics

Image, Context and Perspective

With the failure of economics to predict the recent economic crisis, the image of economics as a rigorous mathematical science has been subjected to increasing interrogation. One explanation for this failure is that the subject took a wrong turn in its historical trajectory, becoming too mathematical. Using the philosophy of mathematics, this unique book re-examines this trajectory. Philosophy of Mathematics and Economics re-analyses the divergent rationales for mathematical economics by some of its principal architects. Yet, it is not limited to simply enhancing our understanding of how economics became an applied mathematical science. The authors also critically evaluate developments in the philosophy of mathematics to expose the inadequacy of aspects of mainstream mathematical economics, as well as exploiting the same philosophy to suggest alternative ways of rigorously formulating economic theory for our digital age. This book represents an innovative attempt to more fully understand the complexity of the interaction between developments in the philosophy of mathematics and the process of formalisation in economics. Assuming no expert knowledge in the philosophy of mathematics, this work is relevant to historians of economic thought and professional philosophers of economics. In addition, it will be of great interest to those who wish to deepen their appreciation of the economic contours of contemporary society. It is also hoped that mathematical economists will find this work informative and engaging.

This book represents an innovative attempt to more fully understand the complexity of the interaction between developments in the philosophy of mathematics and the process of formalisation in economics.