Cosmopolitan Presumptions? On Martha Nussbaum and her Commentators

The Concept of Human Development : A Comparative Study of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum

a study on the relation of cognition to emotion in the view of martha nussbaum

emotion is one of the human soul’s aspects which have a complex relationship with action and cognition. martha craven nussbaum considers emotion as one of the figures of cognition and believes that emotion is the recognition of a person’s very important living aspects which are not under his control. in her view, emotion is based on the subject. this notion proves that emotion is a part of cogn...

Ethical challenges of the multicultural classroom A teacher ́s examination of Martha Nussbaum ́s theory of world citizenship education

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More on Presumptions and Burdens of Proof

This paper extends our previous logical analysis of presumptions and burden of proof by studying the force of a presumption once counterevidence has been offered. In the jurisprudential literature different accounts of this issue have been given: some have argued that a presumption is nullified by counterarguments while others have maintained that this gives presumptions a force that is too sli...

Nussbaum, Capabilities and Older People

This paper assesses the usefulness of Nussbaum’s version of the capabilities approach for understanding the condition of older people in developing countries. It observes that ageing is a highly heterogeneous experience, but that policy debates take a polarized approach. The paper then summarizes key elements of Nussbaum’s approach, relates these to older people, and identifies a key distinctio...