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Codita, Roxana. Contingency Factors of Marketing-Mix Standardization. Gabler, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-6169-3.

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Harrison, M. Contingent factors in lateral influence attempts. Oxford Brookes University, 1995.

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Kyprianou, Andreas I. Contingency analysis in power systems using the concept of distribution factors. UMIST, 1995.

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Codita, Roxana. Contingency Factors of Marketing-Mix Standardization: German Consumer Goods Companies in Central and Eastern Europe. Gabler Verlag / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2011.

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Drelichman, Mauricio, and Hans-Joachim Voth. Risk Sharing with the Monarch. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691151496.003.0008.

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This chapter analyzes the role of contingent scenarios and nature of the defaults. Over the last 800 years, many periods of debt accumulation have been followed by default. Despite these disruptions, the market for sovereign debt did not disappear. At least, in the case of asiento lending to Philip II, excusable defaults were an important factor. Studying the loan documents directly, the chapter shows that a significant share of short-term loans contained contingency clauses. It then explores the different types of loan modifications along with their impact on cash flows and loan maturity. The

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Lee, Buchheit, and Gulati G Mitu. Part III Complicating Factors, 18 Sovereign Contingent Liabilities. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199671106.003.0018.

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Jackle, Mary J. CONTINGENT EMPLOYMENT IN NURSING: FACTORS AFFECTING CAREER CHOICE. 1993.

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The Contingent Valuation of Natural Parks: Assessing the Warmglow Propensity Factor (New Horizons in Environmental Economics). Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002.

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Pruss, Alexander R., and Joshua L. Rasmussen. An Argument from Possible Causes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746898.003.0004.

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A contemporary version of the argument from contingency is given that utilizes a logically weak causal premise about possibilities. There is an explanation of how this argument has advantages over the classic arguments from contingency. In particular, it is shown how skeptics of traditional cosmological arguments may accept the proposed weak causal premise, since that premise leaves open whether some events and contingent states have no explanation or cause. Evidence is also given from the results of a survey that suggests that some skeptics of traditional cosmological arguments in fact do fin

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Tritten, Tyler. Boutroux’s Alternative: An Ontology of the Fact. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428194.003.0003.

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Boutroux, approximately 150 years prior to Meillassoux, already argued for the contingency of laws of nature, as well as truths of logic and mathematics. Boutroux, however, does not espouse factiality, namely, the necessity of contingent beings, but he rather offers a veritable ontology of the fact. Boutroux does not abandon necessity, but he does show how all necessity is itself consequent, that is, a matter of fact. He does this by arguing for the laws of nature as nothing but the habit of nature, which springs not from chance but from spontaneity. Being bottoms out in pontaneity rather than

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Newlands, Samuel. Spinoza’s Metaphysics of Modality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817260.003.0005.

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Chapter four argues that ignoring a fundamental explanatory question has led interpreters to misunderstand Spinoza’s views on necessity, contingency, possibility, and impossibility. Although the scope of Spinoza’s necessitarianism has also been hotly debated, a central question has gone largely unasked: just what is modality, according to Spinoza? By focusing first on his analysis of necessity, we gain insight into more familiar questions of modal distribution: what exists necessarily, contingently, and so forth. Spinoza ultimately endorses a form of what might now be called anti-essentialism,

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Heil, John. Must There be Brute Facts? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758600.003.0002.

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What are brute facts? The question admits of two interpretations. First, what is it for a fact to be brute? Second, which facts, which ways the universe is, are brute? One possibility is that brute facts are optional, unconstrained by the nature of reality. In that case, the class of brute facts could be far more limited than is commonly thought and indeed possibly nonexistent. This possibility remains invisible so long as we persist in a latent Humean bias. One manifestation of this bias is our willingness to address questions about the modal status of ways the universe is via the apparatus o

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Marketing Programme and Process Standardisation: An Empirical Investigation of Marketing Standardisation and Its Contingency Factors in the US Market. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2012.

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Simons, Peter. Radical Contingentism, or; Why Not Even Numbers Exist Necessarily. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792161.003.0005.

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Bob Hale championed the view that some objects exist of necessity, most prominently, mathematical objects like numbers. In contrast, this chapter upholds radical contingentism, the view that no object exists necessarily, and seeks to undermine the idea that the best possible candidates for necessary existence, the natural numbers, exist necessarily, despite there being in fact many contingent objects. Even the best neo-Fregean arguments for the existence of natural numbers depend on assumptions a nominalist may reject. A positive account of cardinalities as belonging to multitudes shows that e

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MacColl, Michael Duncan. Contextual factors and power antecedents contributing to structural power in a complex multidivisional organization : an empirical extension and qualification of strategic contingency theory. 1992.

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Tritten, Tyler. Afterword. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428194.003.0009.

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The Afterword offers a defence of thought as free speculation in which no possibilities can ever be excluded a priori. It also argues that although ontological speculation is required to ground other sciences, their findings never necessitate which ontology must accompany them. Facts can always be interpreted in multiple ways; meaning is never fixed. That there is meaning, however, rather than non-sense is a contingent fact and not a necessity.

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Basl, John, and Christian Coons. Ought to Is. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805076.003.0007.

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While many doubt that purely empirical claims can entail any moral claim, moral premises often appear to have empirical entailments. However, unless the moral premises are treated as stipulated assumptions, it seems like a serious mistake to infer empirical conclusions from moral premises that entail them. The puzzle is trying to plausibly explain why this is so. This chapter surveys and rejects some proposed solutions. Learning what we can from these failed solutions, a proposal is advanced. The chapter argues that every attempted moral science inference faces a dilemma. The moral premise(s),

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Tritten, Tyler. Decision and Withdrawal: On the Facticity and Posteriority of God. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428194.003.0006.

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This chapter argues that God is an eternal fact, thus an eternally contingent consequence, the factum brutum. Employing Schelling’s later notion of “unprethinkability” it is argued that as unprethinkable primal being is not unthinkable but only post-thinkable. Being, including the being of God, can only be thought in its consequence. If being exists in a cold, mute, neutral and mechanistic way, then being, post factum, proves ungodly. But, if being exists graciously, personally and as the result of freedom, then being exists in a godly way. Whether or not unprethinkable being is then consequen

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Goswami, Usha. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199646593.003.0001.

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The ‘Introduction’ looks at recent developments in child psychology such as new techniques in brain imaging and genetics, and research into cognitive development and social/emotional development. The latter is intrinsically linked to cognitive growth. A key factor for infant development is the quality and quantity of language to which the child is exposed to. A child is an active learner. If children witness early learning environments at home and away from the home that are stable, responsively contingent and linguistically rich, then the brain will have the best opportunity for optimal devel

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Sher, George. But I Could Be Wrong. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190660413.003.0011.

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This chapter explores the implications of the facts that (1) we often disagree with others about how we ought to act, and (2) given a sufficiently different upbringing and set of experiences, we would now hold the very views that we reject. These facts, together with the associated proliferation of incompatible moral doctrines, are sometimes invoked in support of liberal policies of toleration and restraint, but their relevance to individual moral deliberation has received less attention. In the chapter’s first five sections, I argue that this combination of controversy and contingency poses a

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Rogers, Pat. Cross-Sections (4). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0006.

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This chapter sets out some of the proximate causes of the growth in visibility of the novel's new form. It seeks out adequate explanatory factors rather than a comprehensive model which can provide a sufficient cause for everything that happened inside literary texts. After all, one can never discount chance, contingency, and sheer luck, nor can the existence of individual genius be denied. Some generalizations are possible about the earlier practitioners — their gender, age, class background, and so on — but it was not social class or education which allowed Daniel Defoe, rather than John Dun

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Volpi, Frédéric. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190642921.003.0001.

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The chapter considers two ways of conceptualizing the events of the Arab uprisings. These transformations can be explained by actor-centric narratives stressing the contingency of protest episodes and of their outcomes. They can also be portrayed as the unfolding of longer-term trends in which specific combinations of economic, military, social and political factors repeatedly shape the form and outcomes of change. The chapter highlights the importance of meaning-making in the construction of the causality of the 2011 uprisings in North Africa. It points to the centrality of interpretation in

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Dalton, Russell J. Context and Inequality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733607.003.0008.

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Societal and institutional conditions create incentive (or disincentive) structures that can influence levels of participation (direct effects) and who participates (contingent effects). This chapter examines how constitutional structures, party system characteristics, and income inequality shape participation patterns. Consensual political institutions and multiparty systems increase voting turnout, but lower levels of non-electoral participation. Federal systems decrease turnout in national elections, but increase other forms of action. Income inequality discourages political participation o

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Paauwe, Jaap, and Paul Boselie. HRM and Societal Embeddedness. Edited by Peter Boxall, John Purcell, and Patrick M. Wright. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199547029.003.0009.

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One of the more fundamental aspects of the ongoing debate about the added value of HRM relates to ‘best practice’ versus ‘best fit’. ‘Best practice’ argues for the universal success of certain HR practices while ‘best fit’ acknowledges the relevance of contextual factors. This article argues that differences in institutional settings affect the nature of HRM. To understand this phenomenon, HRM needs additional theory. This article uses ‘new institutionalism’ and the theoretical notions of organizational justice and organizational legitimacy as a better way to understand the shaping of HR polic

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Swain, James E., and Shao-Hsuan Shaun Ho. Parental Brain: The Crucible of Compassion. Edited by Emma M. Seppälä, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Stephanie L. Brown, Monica C. Worline, C. Daryl Cameron, and James R. Doty. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464684.013.6.

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All infants rely on parenting behaviors that provide what they need to be healthy. As “compassion” can be defined as feelings that are elicited by perceiving someone else’s suffering with a desire to help (Goetz, Keltner, & Simon-Thomas, 2010), parenting behavior in concert with compassion towards a child can be defined as “compassionate parenting.” A child who has received compassionate parenting will tend to provide compassionate parenting to his or her own offspring, and possibly to unrelated others. We postulate that compassionate parenting should have the following characteristics: (1

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Anjum, Rani Lill, and Stephen Mumford. From Regularities to Tendencies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733669.003.0009.

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It ought to be conceded, as an empirical fact, that there are seldom, if ever, perfect regularities in nature. Generalizations, instead, have to be made ceteris paribus. If there is no perfect regularity, however, this still does not mean that there is no causation. Causal claims can instead rest on recognizable tendencies. Tendencies can come in various degrees of strength, some very strong and some very weak. Ceteris paribus laws could be understood in terms of tendencies, which involve less than necessity but more than pure contingency. A tendency cannot be identified with a statistical inc

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Wall, David. Desiderative Inconsistency, Moore’s Paradox, and Norms of Desire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199370962.003.0011.

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What is wrong with desiderative inconsistency, having essentially conflicting desires that cannot possibly be satisfied at the same time? It was recently argued that attempts to explain this in terms of logical inconsistency, preventing action, or a failure of rationality are unsuccessful and having such desires is no worse than having desires that merely contingently conflict, if it is bad at all. But in fact having either essentially or contingently conflicting desires involves violating norms of desire, particularly, a norm of avoiding frustration. Appealing to a counterpart of Moore’s Para

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Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper. The Self-Ownership Trilemma, Extended Minds, and Neurointerventions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758617.003.0008.

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Many believe that, ceteris paribus, neurointerventions on convicted criminals that render reoffending less likely are morally more problematic than comparable indirect interventions, such as compulsory attendance at anger management classes. One justification for this view appeals to the putative fact that persons have moral ownership over themselves—their bodies and minds—and that neurointerventions violate or infringe this right. Suppose, however, that the mind is extended outside the skull and spreads into the external world. Because the most important object one owns, inasmuch as one owns

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Tritten, Tyler. Reason as Consequent Universal: On Thinking and Being. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428194.003.0005.

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Turning to the later Schelling, this chapter shows how Schelling regards reason itself as a matter of fact rather than as a self-founding truth of reason. There is not being because there is reason or thinking, but there is reason because there is being. Reason is thus only explicable through a historical, rather than rational, account of its emergence from non-reason. Reason is thus a contingently eternal matter of fact, something which eternally is but could have never been, consequent upon pre-rational being. Schelling does not fall prey to irrationalism, but he does ask why there is reason

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Stanghellini, Giovanni. Personal life-history. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198792062.003.0041.

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This chapter describes the process of progressive decentring of two partners taking part in a dialogue. Phenomenological unfolding is the taking of a third-person perspective on one’s own experiences. The hermeneutic moment consists in position-taking and perspective-taking with respect to one’s own experiences and their meanings. It requires the capacity to distance oneself from one’s own habits in interpreting and understanding the ‘facts’ of one’s own life, and to make of these very habits the object for reflection and for understanding. The psychodynamic moment consists in positing both ph

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Lopes, Dominic McIver. By Happy Alchemy of Mind. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827214.003.0009.

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The network theory of aesthetic value implies that aesthetic value is related only contingently to pleasure (or finally valuable experience). The chapter argues that this result fits the facts about how agents are motivated to act aesthetically: sometimes aesthetic agents act out of non-aesthetic desires. As a result, what makes someone an aesthetic expert is their reliable performance, not any specifically aesthetic desire. At the same time, the exercise of aesthetic competence typically brings pleasure, because the pleasure system is implicated in any kind of competence performance. Some art

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Haddad, Youssef A. Subject-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474434072.003.0005.

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The focus of this chapter is on Levantine Arabic attitude datives that take the subject of the construction in which they occur as a referent. The chapter analyzes specific instances of subject-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts. It shows that when a speaker uses these datives in representatives (i.e., statements that may be assessed as true or false), she expresses an evaluative attitude toward an event as either unimportant/trivial or unexpected/surprising, based on her familiarity with the subject of that event and her expectations of that subject. When a sp

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Stone, Rachel. Carolingian Domesticities. Edited by Judith Bennett and Ruth Karras. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.004.

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Carolingian ideas of "home" and "family" encompassed a wide range of meanings from physical buildings to kin and free and unfree dependents. Kinship ties played a vital role, both socially and politically, and marriage practices reflected that; Carolingian reforms respected parents' strategies concerning their children's marriages. The Frankish economy was structured around nuclear households, from peasant tenancies to the huge estates presided over by noble men and women. Male and female activities in both production and consumption were partially, but not completely gender-specific. Dowries

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Guitton, Clement. Standards of Proof. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190699994.003.0004.

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When can we consider that an attack is attributed, if attribution is not dependent on court proceedings? Do we need "appropriate" standards for the attribution of cyber attacks? What would such standards look like? This chapter starts by noting that there is a mismatch between how attribution functions, and how the law operates. Attribution is not contingent on legal proceedings, and can occur despite a lack of condemnation by a court. This lack of reliance on strict standards of evidence leads us to consider the following argument: that attribution is easily malleable. On top of the reliance

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Smyth, J. E. Jills of All Trades. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840822.003.0004.

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The most significant shift in the wartime and postwar history of the Hollywood producer was the rise of women. Joan Harrison and Virginia Van Upp are best known, but little has been written about the producing careers of Harriet Parsons, Helen Rathvon, Ruth Herbert, Frances Manson, Ginger and Lela Rogers, Constance Bennett, Joan Bennett, Helen Deutsch, Jane Murfin, Theresa Helburn, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Kay Francis, and Rita Hayworth. Together with Mary Pickford, longtime partner of United Artists Studios, and Ida Lupino, actress turned writer-director-producer, they formed a formida

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Kristof-Brown, Amy L., Christina S. Li, and Benjamin Schneider. Fitting In and Doing Good: A Review of Person–Environment Fit and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Research. Edited by Philip M. Podsakoff, Scott B. Mackenzie, and Nathan P. Podsakoff. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219000.013.26.

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This chapter presents a comprehensive review of the relationships between different types of person–environment (PE) fit—namely person–organization, person–group, person–supervisor, and person–job—and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). Relying on both affinity and exchange explanations, we demonstrate that individuals who experience good fit are more likely to engage in OCBs. However, the strength of the relationship is contingent on many factors, especially with regard to the operationalization of fit (the kind of fit measure used), the characteristics on which fit is assessed (e.g.

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Ware, John A. The Direct Historical Approach. Edited by Barbara Mills and Severin Fowles. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199978427.013.4.

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The direct historical approach investigates the past by working backward in time from the known ethnographic present to the unknown pre-colonial past. The approach assumes historical connection between past and present and promises to yield insights into the contingent facts of particular culture histories. Popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in the Pueblo Southwest, the direct historical approach was abandoned partly because of its early reliance on Native oral traditions. In recent years, revival of the approach has been hampered by assumptions about colo

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Woloch, Nancy. Different versus Equal: The 1920s. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691002590.003.0006.

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This chapter revisits Adkins and considers the feud over protective laws that arose in the women's movement in the 1920s. The clash between friends and foes of the Equal Rights Amendment—and over the protective laws for women workers that it would surely invalidate—fueled women's politics in the 1920s. Both sides claimed precedent-setting accomplishments. In 1923, the National Woman's Party proposed the historic ERA, which incurred conflict that lasted for decades. The social feminist contingent—larger and more powerful—gained favor briefly among congressional lawmakers, expanded the number an

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Callard, Agnes. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Conflict. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190639488.003.0004.

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In an “extrinsic” conflict, an agent’s desires pull her toward incompatible actions. As a matter of contingent fact, nothing she does will get her everything she wants. Intrinsically conflicted agents are conflicted at the level of value, and this means that the conflict fractures the agent’s evaluative point of view: in order to get the appeal of one of the things she wants fully in view, she must step out of the point of view from which the other appears attractive. For this reason, the conflict cannot be resolved by deliberation as to which side is better overall. Harry Frankfurt is wrong t

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Richardson, Henry. Noneternal Moral Principles. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190247744.003.0010.

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Because this book’s central claim is that the moral community can authoritatively introduce new moral norms in the course of history, it seems to clash with the claim that all moral truths ultimately trace to eternally true principles of morality. This chapter considers the views of two philosophers whose added assumptions convert this into a real conflict—the seventeenth-century neo-Platonist Ralph Cudworth and the recently deceased Oxford philosopher G. A. Cohen. It challenges Cudworth’s addition to the claim—namely, that the route back can be traced only by reference to the nature of the re

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Buzan, Barry, and Richard Little. The Historical Expansion of International Society. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.424.

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For most English School writers, the international society is an element that is always present in international relations, but whose depth, character, and influence all fluctuate with historical contingency. The historical wing of the English School focuses on how the contemporary global international society came about as a result of the expansion to planetary scale of what was originally a novel type of international society that emerged in early modern Europe. This is partly a story of power and imposition, and partly one of the successful spread and internalization beyond the West of West

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Morgan Wortham, Simon. Something (or Nothing) to be Scared of: Meillassoux, Klein, Kristeva. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429603.003.0008.

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This chapter explores the work of Quentin Meillassoux, the thinker perhaps most associated with the recent speculative-materialist turn in continental thought. Meillassoux argues that post-Kantian philosophy succumbs to a principle of correlation between thinking and being, wherein the one cannot be contemplated outside of the other. This chapter focuses on Meillassoux’s argument about the necessity of contingency as something not to be confused with a probabilistic idea of chance, one that might condemn us to perpetual fearfulness. While the possibility of such trepidation is supposedly overc

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Fields, Keota. Berkeley’s Semiotic Idealism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755685.003.0005.

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This chapter proposes an interpretation of Berkeley as a semiotic idealist. According to semiotic idealism internal ideas are signs for external divine ideas, and sensible objects are composite entities with external divine ideas as their essential parts and internal ideas of the imagination and (where applicable) sensations as their contingent parts. Signification is the ontological glue that unifies these parts into individuals. Divinely instituted normative linguistic rules govern the use of internal ideas as signs for external divine ideas. This semiotic relation gives objective form and m

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Porter, Patrick. Breaking States. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807964.003.0003.

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This chapter forms the core of the argument, tracing the ideological roots of ‘regime change’, identified as an underlying form of security-seeking. Though it took the structural fact of American power and the contingent event of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to make the assault on Saddam possible, it was also conditioned by the rise in the previous decade of a set of ideas about liberalism and security. Those ideas bred a ‘common sense’ that presented disputable ideas as obvious: that 9/11 was a harbinger, not an aberration, warranting high-risk and radical measures; that designated ‘rogue’ acto

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Rudavsky, T. M. God, Suffering, and Omniscience. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580903.003.0005.

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The topic of divine predication leads more broadly to issues surrounding divine omniscience, freedom, and evil. The question of why the righteous suffer remains one of the most intractable issues in philosophical theology. More generally, the very concept of a caring deity who is both omniscient and omnipotent gives rise to a logical dilemma: if God is omniscient, then God knows past, present, and future contingents; if God is omnipotent, then God can actualize any state of affairs; if God is benevolent, then presumably God wishes the best possible state of affairs for God’s creatures; and yet

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DeRose, Keith. How Do We Know that We’re Not Brains in Vats? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199564477.003.0007.

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In this chapter the contextualist Moorean account of how we know by ordinary standards that we are not brains in vats (BIVs) utilized in Chapter 1 is developed and defended, and the picture of knowledge and justification that emerges is explained. The account (a) is based on a double-safety picture of knowledge; (b) has it that our knowledge that we’re not BIVs is in an important way a priori; and (c) is knowledge that is easily obtained, without any need for fancy philosophical arguments to the effect that we’re not BIVs; and the account is one that (d) utilizes a conservative approach to epi

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Wrathall, Mark A., ed. How Heidegger Defends the Possibility of a Correspondence Theory of Truth with Respect to the Entities of Natural Science (2001). Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796220.003.0006.

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Dreyfus extends his argument against antirealism or “deflationary realism.” The deflationary realist holds that objects appear to be independent of us only relative to a particular set of practices, but in fact their existence is dependent on the practices that disclose them. Dreyfus argues instead for the coherence of a robust realism, according to which science can in principle give us access to the functional components of the universe as they are in themselves. To support the coherence of such a claim, Dreyfus draws a distinction between access practices and constitutive practice. Human ar

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Simon, Gleeson, and Guynn Randall. Part III The EU Resolution Regime, 10 Direct Bail-in in the European Union. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199698011.003.0010.

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This chapter describes how the EU regime permits bail-in to be implemented directly by varying the terms of the obligations of the institution in resolution. Bail-in, by definition, is a process which applies to some but not all of the senior creditors of an institution—not all, since the object of the process is to protect some of these creditors. The primary appeal of the bail-in structure is the fact that there is no necessity to establish a new entity and transfer assets to it. As FDIC’s history of resolution demonstrates, this is a relatively straightforward process where the assets are a

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DeRose, Keith. The Appearance of Ignorance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199564477.001.0001.

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This volume presents, develops, and champions contextualist solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: The puzzles of skeptical hypotheses and of lotteries. It is argued that, at least by ordinary standards for knowledge, we do know that skeptical hypotheses are false, and that we’ve lost the lottery (unless one is in fact the winner of the lottery, in which case one does not know that one has lost, but is reasonable in thinking that one knows it). Accounting for how it is that we know that skeptical hypotheses are false and why it seems that we don’t know that they’re false t

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Oqubay, Arkebe, and Kenichi Ohno, eds. How Nations Learn. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841760.001.0001.

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Authored by eminent scholars, the volume aims to generate interest and debate among policymakers, practitioners, and researchers on the complexity of learning and catch-up, particularly for twenty-first century late-late developers. The volume explores technological learning at the firm level, policy learning by the state, and the cumulative and multifaceted nature of the learning process, which encompasses learning by doing, by experiment, emulation, innovation, and leapfrogging. Why is catch-up rare? And why have some nations succeeded while others failed? What are the prospects for successf

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