Law, Comparatism, and Epistemic Governance: There Is Critique and Critique

Epistemic Rationality as Instrumental Rationality: A Critique

My aim in this paper is to explore the relationship between epistemic rationality and instrumental rationality. By epistemic rationality, I mean, roughly, the kind of rationality which one displays when one believes propositions that are strongly supported by one's evidence and refrains from believing propositions that are improbable given one's evidence. Prominent epistemologists frequently em...

The Case for Law – A Critique

Automobile Accidents, Tort Law, Externalities, and Insurance: An Economist’s Critique

Preface – By Todd Litman This is a seminal article concerning traffic accident cost analysis and vehicle insurance pricing reform by Professor William Vickrey, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for economics. It describes how to determine the marginal accident costs of vehicle travel, identifies several problems associated with current insurance pricing and compensation practices, and proposes inn...

Natural Law and the Regulation of Sexuality: A Critique

Today, natural law theory offers the most common intellectual defense for the differential treatment of gays and lesbians. Leading natural law theorists, such as John Finnis,2 Robert George,3 and Richard Duncan,4 have eagerly inserted themselves into debates about law and sexuality. If their arguments are sound, it is permissible to treat gays and lesbians differentially as a matter of law. Nat...

Critique of Novel/ Postmodern Cleopatra: Postmodernist Critique of the Late Cleopatra and Satan's Night, Ashraf Seraj

Historiographic metafiction and the decline of metanarrative are two important features in postmodernist stories. Writers of historiographic metafiction use historical structures such as real historical personalities and events but engage in deliberate interference so as to make the reader hesitate on deciding whether the story is based on reality or not. Postmodernists in this way draw the rea...