Robert Cover as a Radical Democrat

Robert Sugden Contractarianism as a Broad Church

I defend the claim, made in a previous paper, that ‘a Humean can be a contractarian’, against the criticisms of Anthony de Jasay. Jasay makes a categorical distinction between ‘ordered anarchy’ (which he associates with Hume) and ‘social contract theory’. I argue that Hume’s political position was conservative, not anarchist. On Hume’s analysis, a convention is an implicit agreement; the concep...

Improving Vertex Cover as a Graph Parameter

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Life Insurance as a Social Service and as a Mathematical Problem* by Robert Henderson

The prophet Ezekiel in describing the wonderful vision which appeared to him by the river Chebar uses an expression which has become proverbial. He describes four living creatures and speaks of each as accompanied by a wheel. Regarding these wheels he says "their appearance and their work was, as it were, a wheel within a wheel". I hope that if you get from this talk of mine the impression that...

Robert A. Hinde

Lyme Bay, in the south-west of the country. The marine environment here represents one of the most diverse and species-rich around the country, and the measures are planned to stop damage to coral reefs by scallop dredging within the bay. While the dredgers are clearly unhappy, others hope the move will mark economic benefits for other users of these waters and fishermen outside the zone. And B...

Robert L . “ A Theory