To Veil or Not to Veil: Detecting Lies in The Courtroom. A Comment on Leach et al. (2016)

Comment on “The Veil of Public Ignorance”∗

Nehring (2004) proposes an interesting methodology to extend the utilitarian criterion defined under complete information to an interim social welfare ordering allowing to compare acts. The first axiom defining his approach, called “State Independence,” requires the interim social welfare ordering to be consistent with ex-post utilitarian comparisons: if it is commonly known that the act f sele...

Dialectics of the Veil

W.E.B. Du Bois's concept of "the veil," first fully articulated in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), contains the most nuanced and powerful theory of race and racism ever developed. Du Bois understands the veil dialectically. This philosophical term "dialectic" refers to a relationship that simultaneously embodies both antagonism and interdependence, that develops over historical time, and that l...

Time to lift the veil of secrecy.

Lifting the veil on trichotillomania.

“Dr. D,” a 32-year-old female general practitioner, presented to a psychiatric referral clinic with a history of repetitive hair pulling since age 14. Recently the hair pulling had escalated, and it now occupied 2–3 hours per day, usually during the evening when Dr. D was relaxing. Despite imaginative efforts to conceal her missing hair and eyebrows, Dr. D felt that she was “fighting a losing b...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...