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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Johan Galtung, Jon Elster, Helga Hernes, Knut Langfeldt, Stein Rokkan, Odd-Bjørn Fure, Janne Haaland Matlary, Johan Jørgen Holst, Trond Nordby, Iver B. Neumann, Christian Lous Lange, Helge Hveem, Alf-Inge Jansen, Helge Ole Bergesen, Espen Barth Eide, Sverre Lodgaard, John Kristen Skogan, Anders Hasselgård, Ole T. Berg, Geir Flikke. Excerpt:Alf-Inge Jansen (born 30 December 1939) is a Norwegian political scientist and politician for the Liberal Party . From July to October 1973 he was a State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade as a part of Korvald's Cabinet . He was also a member of the executive committee of Bergen city council from 1979 to 1983. Jansen was born in Lærdal . He started his career in the Royal Norwegian Navy , and then studied political science at the University of Oslo . He graduated in 1967, took the MPA degree at Indiana University in 1970 and the dr.philos. degree at the University of Bergen in 1989. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Bath and the University of Warwick , and a part-time researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics . References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Anders Hasselgård (born 2 January 1978) is a Norwegian former footballer and political scientist. As a football player he spent most of his career with Molde FK . He made his debut in the Norwegian Premier League in 1995, and played his last match in 2004. In total he played 112 Norwegian Premier League games, scoring 12 goals. He also played for Lisleby, Eidsvåg and Lørenskog . He later enrolled at the University of Oslo . Writing his master's degree , he was hired as a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs . References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Christian Lous Lange (17 Septemb... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 877 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Elster, Jon. Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspectives.(Book Review)
Author: Harry Clor
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 59Issue: 1Page: 171(3)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Max Weber, Robert Nozick, Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Bayes, John Searle, Jesús Mosterín, Jon Elster, Oskar Morgenstern, R. Duncan Luce, Albrecht Wellmer. Excerpt:Albrecht Wellmer Albrecht Wellmer (July 9, 1933 - ) is a prominent German philosopher at the Freie Universität Berlin . Biography He studied maths and physics at Berlin and Kiel, then philosophy and sociology at Heidelberg and Frankfurt. He was an assistant to Jürgen Habermas at the University of Frankfurt from 1966 to 1970. He has held Professorships at the Universität Konstanz , the New School for Social Research and at the Freie Universität Berlin . He has held guest Professorships at Haverford, Stony Brooke, Collège International de Philosophie, the New School of Social Research and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In 2006 he received the Theodor W. Adorno Award , a prestigious award for achievement in philosophy, theatre, music, and film. Works His works include books and articles about Aesthetics , Critical Theory , Ethics , Modernity , and Postmodernity and as well as thinkers such as Adorno , Habermas , Rorty , and Wittgenstein . Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Jesús Mosterín in October 2008 Jesús Mosterín (1941) is a leading Spanish philosopher and a thinker of broad spectrum, often at the frontier between science and philosophy. Biography Jesús Mosterin was born in Bilbao in 1941. He studied in Spain, Germany and the USA. Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Barcelona since 1983, he founded there an active Department of Logic, Philosophy and History of Science. Since 1996, he has been Research Professor at the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC). He is a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh and a member of several inter... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Jerry Fodor, Donald Davidson, Ray Jackendoff, Jon Elster, Stephen Stich, John Perry, Zenon Pylyshyn, Elizabeth Spelke, Gilbert Harman, Jean Nicod Prize, Kim Sterelny, Ruth Millikan, Michael Tomasello, Fred Dretske, Susan Carey, Hans Kamp. Excerpt:Daniel Clement Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher whose research centers on the philosophy of mind , philosophy of science and philosophy of biology , particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science . He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University . Dennett is a noted atheist and secularist as well as being a prominent advocate of the Brights movement . Early life and education Dennett spent part of his childhood in Lebanon , where, during World War II , his father was a covert counter-intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut . The young Dennett and family returned to Massachusetts in 1947 after his father died in an unexplained plane crash. His sister is the investigative journalist Charlotte Dennett. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and spent one year at Wesleyan University before receiving his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1963, where he was a student of W.V. Quine . In 1965, he received his D.Phil in philosophy from Hertford College, Oxford , where he studied under the ordinary language philosopher Gilbert Ryle . Career in academia Daniel Dennett in 2008 Dennett is currently (April 2009) the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, University Professor, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies (with ... ... Read more

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Las normas sociales, además de garantizar el funcionamiento racional de una sociedad, aseguran que los mecanismos que rigen las relaciones entre los individuos no se desintegren en el desorden y el caos y se mantengan dentro de los límites de la lógica y del sentido común. A partir del concepto de "cemento del universo", tomado del Tratado de la naturaleza humana de Hume, que hace referencia a las reglas de la causalidad que determinan y aseguran un orden físico, Jon Elster pone en discusión las condiciones del mundo social para preguntarse los motivos por los cuales una sociedad permanece integrada y no se disuelve mediante la guerra o la anarquía. En este innovador y fundamental estudio, el destacado sociólogo noruego analiza varios aspectos de la acción colectiva desde un punto de vista racional, haciendo hincapié en el funcionamiento de las normas sociales como "cementos de la sociedad", que definen y articulan a cada uno de los elementos que la integran. «No son las sociedades las que entran en interacción entre sí, sino que lo hacen sólo los individuos», afirma el autor. Así, en este excelente trabajo, el destacado sociólogo noruego examina las decisiones individuales dentro de unos patrones estables y permanentes y la interacción con los comportamientos corporativos que, fundamentados en normas sociales irracionales, sostienen la integridad de una sociedad. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Social Research, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2006. The length of the article is 4184 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fairness and norms.(I. Science Looks at Fairness)
Author: Jon Elster
Publication: Social Research (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 73Issue: 2Page: 365(12)

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