In this paper I argue that Arthur Fine and Martin Heidegger present responses to the dispute between realism and antirealism that are remarkably close in character. Both claim that this dispute arises from a failure to take seriously our everyday experience of things in the world. I argue that it is useful to note the similarity between Fine and Heidegger for two distinct reasons: 1) their view...

This article is intended to introduce the assertion of the Japanese government with regard to the territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands, and to present an objective and reasoned examination to the problem in terms of international law. Before turning to the main part of the article, some basic points of international law shall be given as an introduction to the legal issues relevant to t...

This paper advances the debate over the question whether false beliefs may nevertheless have warrant, the property that yields knowledge when conjoined with true belief. The paper’s first main part—which spans Sections 2–4—assesses the best argument for Warrant Infallibilism, the view that only true beliefs can have warrant. I show that this argument’s key premise conflicts with an extremely pl...

The role intermediaries play in resolving land-taking disputes in socialist Asia has rarely been studied, but this inquiry is critical to understanding alternatives to courtbased dispute resolution. This paper explores how intermediaries, such as retired state officials, navigate in and around authoritarian regimes to resolve complex disputes that pit citizens against the state. Empirical studi...

Many existing studies focus on disputes and resolutions but often overlook the transformation of disputes. Based on an analysis of case filing, this article explains how various factors of daily life enter the legal world through dispute formatting. When disputes are developed into lawsuits, the systematic logic of law and the logic of daily life constantly interact with each other. Dispute for...

Where there are cases of underdetermination in scientiac controversies, such as the case of the molecular clock, scientists may direct the course and terms of dispute by playing off the multidimensional framework of theory evaluation. This is because assessment strategies themselves are underdetermined. Within the framework of assessment, there are a variety of trade-offs between different stra...

During the past decade, researchers have commonly employed one of two sets of interstate dyads as the population of cases in quantitative analyses of international conflict, either “all dyads” or “politically relevant dyads.” The main argument against using the “all dyads” set is that includes many dyads where there is no chance of conflict, and so analysts using this set are examining many pai...

INTRODUCTION..................................................................................... 20 I. WHAT PEOPLE ARE ARGUING ABOUT WHEN THEY ARGUE ABOUT NET NEUTRALITY............................................ 22 A. A Taxonomy of IP Networks ................................................... 22 B. A Taxonomy of Net Neutrality Proposals ................................. 24 1. The Anti-Bloc...

For the past twenty-five years or so, there has been a running dispute between literary critics and linguists on the question of whether it is appropriate to apply linguistic methods -that is to say, methods derived from the discipline of linguisticsto the study of l i terature. There has been almost universal confidence among the linguistis that this activity is entirely justified; and almost ...