Politics around Negligence and Causes:

Distributive Politics Around the World

We inventory more than 150 studies of distributive politics in more than three dozen countries other than the United States. We organize existing studies under two theories: theories of democratic accountability and theories of government responsiveness. Studies that concern democratic accountability conceptualize distributive allocations as attempts by politicians to protect themselves elector...

Negligence and Child Abuse

با وجود هرگونه رفتار خشونت آمیز با کودکان یا نوجوانان توسط والدین، محافظین و مراقبین دیگر را سوءرفتار گویند. رفتار نادرست با کودکان همیشه وجود داشته گرچه ممکن است با خواندن مقاله های جدید اینطور تصور شد که سوءرفتار با کودکان پدیده ای جدید و مربوط به قرن بیستم است ولی متاسفانه کودکان در تمام قرون مورد سوءرفتار قرار می گرفتند. در قرن بیستم که به عبارتی قرن کودک لقب گرفته، کشتارهای ساکت زیادی بوقو...

Intoxication, Recklessness and Negligence

According to what is here called the “Intoxication Recklessness Principle,” a defendant who, thanks to voluntary intoxication, is unaware of a condition of which a reasonable person would have been aware is to be treated as though he were reckless with respect to that condition, rather than negligent. And, according to what is here called the “Intoxication Negligence Principle,” a defendant who...

Professional Negligence

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...