Anti-social welfare functions: a reply to Hansen et al.

Circularity in Searle’s Social Ontology: With a Hegelian Reply

John Searle’s theory of social ontology posits that there are indispensable normative components in the linguistic apparatuses termed status functions, collective intentionality, and collective recognition, all of which, he argues, make the social world. In this paper, I argue that these building blocks of Searle’s social ontology are caught in a petitio of constitutive circularity. Mo...

Perceived Stress and Burden of Care in Elderly Caregivers: The Moderating Role of Resilience

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating role of resilience in the association between perceived stress and burden of care among elderly caregivers at nursing homes of Tehran in 2016. Methods and Materials: In this cross-sectional, correlational study, the data were collected from 142 caregivers engaged in nursing homes in Tehran of which 50 were men and 92 were wom...

Social Welfare and Restorative Justice

Social work and restorative justice are both notoriously difficult approaches to define (Zehr and Toews, 2004; Brand et al, 2005). They are underpinned by numerous social and psychological theories and a plethora of practice interventions (Adams et al, 2002; Liebman, 2007). A focus on Human Rights and the tenets of Social Justice underpin these approaches along with focusing on empowerment and ...

Reply to Bogdan et al.: “Cubic ice” in cirrus clouds under dry and wet conditions.

Integer Programming and Nondictatorial Arrovian Social Welfare Functions

Following Sethuraman, Teo and Vohra ((2003), (2006)), we apply integer programming tools to the analysis of fundamental issues in social choice theory. We generalize Sethuraman et al.’s approach specifying integer programs in which variables are allowed to assume values in the set {0, 12 , 1}. We show that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the solutions of an integer program defi...