Democracia deliberativa: entre Rawls e Habermas

Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) is widely credited with having revived post–World War II Anglo American political philosophy. This book together with his later writings are routinely judged to constitute the most important body of work in that field. Indeed, with the collapse of Second World and Third World socialist ideologico-political alternatives, liberalism in one form or another h...

Revisiting Rawls

The present paper revisits the issue of rational decision making in John Rawls’ original position. Drawing on Isaac Levi’s theory of decision, I discuss how we can defend Rawls against John C. Harsanyi’s charge that maximin reasoning in the original position is irrational. The discussion suggests that systematic application of Levi’s theory is likely to have important consequences for ethics an...

Integração entre SIG e Modelos Inferenciais Bayesianos

GIS are an important tool to deal with spatial data as well the Bayesian method is a powerful technique to statistical data analysis. This paper describes the state of the art on GIS and Bayesian Inferential Models softwares integration and shows alternatives to improve it. Resumo. O objetivo deste artigo é descrever o estado da arte da integração entre SIG e Modelos Inferenciais Bayesianos, co...

Rawls and Kantian Constructivism

The Habermas-gadamer Debate

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