The paper presents two studies that investigated how individuals reason from disjunctive statements that use numerical estimations. In the experiments two types of such statements were used. In the first type both constituents of a disjunction could be a logically correct answer. That is, if “The average life time of a fruit fly is either 9 or 27 days”, any of those numbers is logically possibl...

In this article we undertake some conceptual clarification of the concepts of biopower and biopolitics, and argue for their utility in contemporary analysis. We consider Foucault’s development of these concepts, and differentiate his view, which is close to ours, from the philosophical take-up of the terms by Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri. Biopower, we suggest, entails one or more truth dis...

323 * This article is indebted to the discussions on Schmitt’s concept of the political in the Critical Theory Reading Group at the London Centre of International Relations at the University of Kent. I would also like to thank Mick Cox for helpful comments on an earlier version. 1 Hans-Karl Pichler, ‘The Godfathers of “Truth”: Max Weber and Carl Schmitt in Morgenthau’s Theory of Power Politics’...

This article introduces the special issue on Rhetorical Approaches to Contemporary Political Studies. It underscores importance of innovations in political speech as a key continuing attraction scholars rhetorical methods. is particularly relevant at moment crisis and disruption established democracies when parameters acceptable discourse have been brought into question by forms ‘post-truth’ po...

We propose a geography that pluralizes the sites, practices and politics of authority. defend an approach tracks less perceptible forms authority emerging through everyday micropolitics experimental practices. In contrast to dominant definitions as institutionalized legitimate power, we define relation guidance from recognition inequalities in access truth, experience or objectivity. Analysing ...