Radical Pragmatism: An Operator’s Guide

Can Pragmatism Be Radical? Richard Posner and Legal Pragmatism

ions such as justice, fairness, and equality. Posner argues that “academic philosophy” is “a field that has essentially no audience among judges and lawyers—let alone among politicians—even when philosophy is taken up by law professors . . . who think it should influence law.” Legal pragmatists reject “abstract theorizing of which professors of constitutional 62. See J.M. Balkin, The Declaratio...

Radical Non-Configurationality without Shuffle Operators: An Analysis of Wambaya

The word order facts of radically non-configurational languages pose a challenge to HPSG approaches which assume both that the surface order of words is the yield of the (tectogrammatical) tree and standard HPSG-style cancellation of valence lists. These languages allow discontinuous noun phrases, in which modifiers appear separated from their head nouns by arbitrarily many other words from the...

Pragmatism and Design Research – An Overview

Volitional Pragmatism

I seek here to develop the general outlines of a theory of environmental policy. It is a theory that will stand in stark contrast to the tendentious and normative welfare economics that now dominates the policy dialogue in applied economics. In this standard approach, economists place " …exclusive reliance on individual utilities to judge social goodness and right actions [Sen 1993, p. 521]. " ...

Mine Backfill, an Operator's Guide. an Interactive Cd-rom for Mine Operators and Engineers

“Mine Backfill, An Operator’s Guide” is an extension of the electronic book on CD-ROM entitled “Mine Backfill 1998”, which was prepared for the CIM’s (Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum) centennial celebrations in 1999. Discussions with many operations revealed that there was an industry need for a backfill guide for front-line operator training and as a reference manual fo...