Reassessing Gender Neutrality

Sporting Equality and Gender Neutrality in Korfball

Manipulation and gender neutrality in stable marriage procedures

The stable marriage problem is a well-known problem of matching men to women so that no man and woman who are not married to each other both prefer each other. Such a problem has a wide variety of practical applications ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals to matching students to schools. A well-known algorithm to solve this problem is the Gale-Shapley algorithm, which runs in po...

Communism, Value Neutrality and Monetary Neutrality

One of the most puzzling aspects about the functioning of the floating exchange rate regime of the 1980s has been that huge swings in exchange rate have had only muted effects on anything real. To understand this phenomenon, we study the relationship between communism and value neutrality and monetary neutrality. We find that the symmetry of communism is bound to lead to value neutrality. In th...

Gender-neutrality and Gender Equality: Comparing and Contrasting Policy Responses to ‘domestic Violence’ in Finland and Scotland

Violence against women is a serious social problem and human rights concern. What is usually referred to as ‘domestic violence’ is predominately perpetrated by men known to women through intimate or familial relationships. While there are some patterns and probabilities amongst men who are violent to known women (Walby and Myhill 2001), there is no typical abuser, and domestic violence appears ...

Reassessing Referential Indeterminacy

Quine and Davidson employ proxy functions to demonstrate that the use of language (behaviouristically conceived) is compatible with indefinitely many radically different reference relations. They also believe that the use of language (behaviouristically conceived) is all that determines reference. From this they infer that reference is indeterminate, i.e. that there are no facts of the matter a...