Hobbes Against the Fool

Hobbes' Calculus of Words

of a paper for the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics to be held in Sanga Sgby I 4 September 1969 .

A Fool with a Tool Is Still a Fool!

NOTE: This white paper was developed with input from the original ITIL set of documentation. Although the process terms have been updated to reflect the new names, and the process definition have been revised slightly, some of the definitions may not be 100% accurate.

Hobbes and the Internal Point of View

With the introduction, by John Austin, of the command theory of law,1 a certain distinction among theories of law entered the jurisprudential landscape: the distinction between theories that seek to characterize obedience to law in terms of external motivations, such as sanctions for noncompliance, and those that characterize obedience to law in terms of internal motivations, such as a moral co...

Strategies to Fool the Competition

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development This paper studies the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions in form of a social contract that ensures a state of law and the absence of societal conflict are not assumed exogenously under certain political system...