Restitution and Historical Judgment

Historical differentiation, moral judgment and the modern criminal law

responsibility to their historical development. Starting from George Fletcher’s account of three historical patterns of liability (Fletcher, 1978), Lacey develops a more complex differentiation, and at the same time foregrounds the historical conditions for the emergence of different conceptions of responsibility. In thinking about these, Lacey’s focus is on the relationship between capacity an...

Restitution and Reconciliation

Intestinal Epithelial Restitution

Closure of superficial wounds in epithelia occurs by migration of cells shouldering the wound. We describe an in vitro model of such restitution using a human intestinal epithelial cell line, T84. T84 cells were grown on novel optically transparent type 1 collagen membranes without underlying filter supports. Monolayers so grown display substantial barrier function (400-500 ohm* cm2; 1.3±0.4 nm...

For Those Condemned to Study the Past: Reflections on Historical Judgment

Benson (1972) has identified four reasons for studying the past: to entertain, to create a group (or national) identity, to reveal the extent of human possibility, and to develop systematic knowledge about our world, knowledge that may eventually improve our ability to predict and controL On a conscious level, at least, we behavioral scientists restrict ourselves to the last motive. In its pur­...

Judgment

The concept of a judgment as a logical action which introduces new information into a deductive system is examined. This leads to a way of mathematically representing implication which is distinct from the familiar material implication, according to which “If A then B” is considered to be equivalent to “B or not-A”. This leads, in turn, to a resolution of the paradox of the raven.