Towards a Situated Universalism: On Strategic Rationality and ‘Local Theory’

Rationality, ethics, and space: on situated universalism and the self-interested acknowledgement of `difference'

The author explores the relationship between rationality, ethics, and space. He argues that the contemporary ethical project involves a derationalisation of ethics through a recorporealisation of space. There is a move away from the abstract space of liberal ^ individualist notions of justice to more enclosed and local spaces of communitarian loyalties and intersubjective communication. Postmod...

Strategic Rationality

The paper argues that the standard decision theoretic account of strategies and their rationality or optimality is much too narrow, that strategies should rather condition future action to future decision situations, that practical deliberation must therefore essentially rely on a relation of superiority and inferiority between possible future decision situations, that all this allows to substa...

Towards Design Theory and expandable rationality : The unfinished program

It is said that Herbert Simon would have described himself as follows : «I am a monomaniac. What I am a monomaniac about is decision making ». In spite of its shares of legend and humour, this self-portrait deeply reflects the main logic of Herbert Simon’s works. From his early papers on administrative behaviour to his last investigations on thought and learning, Simon kept a same goal : to exp...

Whistleblowing in the Wind Towards a Socially Situated Research Agenda: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Towards a theory of local Shimura varieties

This is a survey article that advertises the idea that there should exist a theory of p-adic local analogues of Shimura varieties. Prime examples are the towers of rigid-analytic spaces defined by Rapoport–Zink spaces, and we also review their theory in the light of this idea. We also discuss conjectures on the l-adic cohomology of local Shimura varieties.