Fletcher v. Rylands: A Reexamination of Juristic Origins

Logan Fletcher

Fred Dretske opens his book Knowledge and the Flow of Information with the assertion that information is objective. In contrast to the common view of information “as something that depends on the interpretive efforts— and, hence, on the prior existence—of intelligent life,” Dretske intends to develop a view of information “as an objective commodity, something whose generation, transmission, and...

Robert Fletcher

The Development of the Public Group as a Juristic Person

The distinction between public and private "group-persons" which was noted in both the early Roman and German law and which is found to persist in modern Gentian, English, and American law, at least, is founded upon inherent differences in their nature. The function of the Public Group Person primarily is to advance the political or social welfare of the group, but as an agency of government, w...

Article 3 FLETCHER

As technology continues to progress beyond the limits of what was once thought impossible, questions concerning the state of the human dominate Western thought. However, while the lines between 'human' and 'nonhuman' are perpetually disintegrating, the human seems reluctant to move beyond humanist paradigms that deploy notions of ‘essence’ as both a unique human quality, and the justification o...

A Critical Reexamination of Alienation

This article will examine the concept of alienation and reconsider its usefulness in sociology and in the social sciences. This concept once occupied center stage in sociological theory, but in recent times it has declined in significance. However, a review of the sociofile database reveals that alienation has and will continue to play a major role in sociological theory. The questions discusse...