Author: Emile BoutrouxPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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The Contingency of the Laws of Nature
Author: Emile BoutrouxContingency in International Law
Author: Ingo VenzkePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192652907
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise? Today, there is hardly a serious account left that would consider the path of international law to be necessary, and that would refute the possibility of a different law altogether. But behind every possibility of the past stands a reason why the law developed as it did. Only with a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did is it possible to argue about how the law could plausibly have turned out differently. The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, as it is in this volume, by a refusal to resign to the present state of affairs. By recovering past possibilities, this volume aims to inform projects of transformative legal change for the future. The book situates that search for contingency theoretically and carries it into practice across many fields, with chapters discussing human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, foreign investments and trade. In doing so, it shows how politically charged questions about contingency have always been.
The Contingency of the Laws of Nature
Author: Etienne Emile Marie BoutrouxPublisher:
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Languages : en
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On the Contingency of Natural Law
Author: Chester Townsend RuddickPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy of nature
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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On the Contingency of Natural Law, by Chester Townsend Ruddick, a Thesis...
Author: Chester Townsend RuddickPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898
Author: William Miller CollierPublisher:
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Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 1810
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The Nature of Contingency
Author: Alastair WilsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198846215
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon. Drawing on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory and cutting-edge metaphysics and philosophy of science, it argues that quantum theories are best understood as telling us about the space of genuine possibilities, rather than as telling us solely about actuality. When quantum physics is taken seriously in the way first proposed by Hugh Everett III, it provides the resources for a new systematic metaphysical framework encompassing possibility, necessity, actuality, chance, counterfactuals, and a host of related modal notions. Rationalist metaphysicians argue that the metaphysics of modality is strictly prior to any scientific investigation; metaphysics establishes which worlds are possible, and physics merely checks which of these worlds is actual. Naturalistic metaphysicians respond that science may discover new possibilities and new impossibilities. This book's quantum theory of contingency takes naturalistic metaphysics one step further, allowing that science may discover what it is to be possible. As electromagnetism revealed the nature of light, as acoustics revealed the nature of sound, as statistical mechanics revealed the nature of heat, so quantum physics reveals the nature of contingency.
Contingency of the Laws of Nature
Author: The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz
Author: Maria Rosa AntognazzaPublisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 0199744726
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
This volume provides a uniquely comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date appraisal of Leibniz's thought thematically organized around its diverse but interrelated aspects. By pulling together the best specialized work in the many domains to which Leibniz contributed, its ambition is to offer the most rounded picture of Leibniz's endeavors currently available.
On the Contingency of Natural Law
Author: Chester Townsend RuddickPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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