Advice on consent

Advice and Consent : Unitary Actors , Advisory Models , and Experimental Tests

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“advice and Consent” in the Appointments Clause: from Another Historical Perspective

The sharply contrasting experiences of John G. Roberts, Jr. and William Howard Taft with the Article II, Section 2 appointments process illustrate that the long view of history is governed by perspective. William Howard Taft, the twenty-seventh President, also later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States. Taft was nominated for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court—a p...

Advice on Modelling TAG

Advice on Abductive Logic

It’s not usual for citations or footnotes to be included in abstracts. One of our purposes here is to expose something of the elementary logical structure of abductive reasoning, and to do so in a way that helps orient theorists to the various tasks that a logic of abduction should concern itself with. We are mindful of criticisms that have been levelled against the very idea of a logic of abdu...

Leaning on advice

to save its rainforests from destruction. This idea was triggered by a very specific moral dilemma. The country’s largest oil find is located underneath the Yasuni National Park, home to a unique biodiversity and several Native American tribes living as huntergatherers in isolation. Oil companies are lobbying the government in Quito for licences to start drilling, which would of course mean dev...