Humanities: their Rights and Duties

Rights and Duties

Rights, Duties and Commitments between Agents

In this paper we introduce a multi agent de-ontic update semantics, that builds on a logic of prescriptive obligations (norms) and a logic of descriptive obligations (normative propositions). In this preference-based logic we formalize rights as a new type of strong prescriptive permissions and duties and commitments as prescriptive obligations between agents. 1 Introduction In groups of agents...

Rights, Duties, HIV/AIDS and Corrections

Investigating the Relationship between Dimensions of Social Capital and the Rights and Duties of Citizenship

This research aimed at investigating the role of social capital on the rights and duties of citizenship among master students of Marvdasht Islamic Azad University. 353 students were surveyed using cluster sampling. The study made use of two questionnaires of citizenship and social capital corporation. This instrument benefited from face and structural validity and the reliability index was repo...

Review Essays The Humanities and their Boundaries

In 1977, under the direction of former Nixon cabinet member William E. Simon, the John M. Olin Foundation launched a campaign to create a conservative "counterintelligensia" to oppose the liberal bias of humanities faculty in American universities. Over a period of nearly three decades, Olin funneled tens of millions of dollars to conservative scholars and institutions until, at the end of 2005...